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Several countries, including Austria, Bolivia, Colombia, Greece, Peru, Britain and Paraguay, have already imposed or approved bans. Why is the United States lagging so far behind?

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Bolivia doesn’t come up much in discussions of birding travel.

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The Dracula Bird

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Its historical year-round range stretches from extreme northwestern Colombia to northern Mexico, with migration into the southwestern United States in the summer. But there are two main reasons for my sympathy towards Bronzed Cowbirds and antipathy towards Brown-headed Cowbirds. First, the Bronzed Cowbird belongs here.

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Would You Move to Another Country… for the Birds?

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Every year, the top birders in Mexico surpass the species totals of their counterparts in the United States, and double the totals of Canada’s best. You could probably achieve an even higher diversity of species in some other areas of the world, such as Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, or Borneo.

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

This is certainly a landmark victory and we hope that other countries around the world, including the United States, will take notice and follow suit.”.

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World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

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Colombia 1959 bird species 2. United States 1160 12. Figures compiled in late November 2018 (version 2018) from Avibase alone (deliberately without any further correction from other sources) tells us that, following Clements, there were 19 countries with more than 1000 so far recorded bird species: 1.

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Romeo Vasquez, who led it, is an alumnus of the United States' School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation). broke the news that Chiquita was represented by a powerful Washington law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, and its consultant, McLarty Associates (2). 3) George W.

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