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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

10,000 Birds

If the wind carries them on, maybe they will go to Panama, or even make it to Colombia. We don’t see so many on the ground but with both Yellow and Black-billed hightailing it to South America, you know that their long wings are carrying these caterpillar gourmands far overhead and straight on to Colombia.

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Best Bird of the Year 2014

10,000 Birds

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). Redgannet’s BBOTY – a Great Grebe.

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