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Urban Birding in Costa Rica- Benefits of Brushy Fields and Coffee Farms

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Costa Rica is more than cloud forest with mega worthy quetzals, more than rainforest with fancy Keel-billed Toucans and luscious Green Honeycreepers. Not a huge number, especially compared to forest communities, but still enough to make the birding in Costa Rica interesting. Yellow-bellied Seedeater.

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Happy Global Big Day from Costa Rica!

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This Yellow Warbler was looking fresh before it left Costa Rica. The Cornell team is no doubt having a fantastic day of birding up there in beautiful spring Colorado while they identify Cassin’s Sparrow, Prairie Falcon, Lazuli Bunting , and other western birds in some of the same places I surveyed in 1997 and 2001.

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Please Welcome Patrick O’Donnell!

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Patrick is the kings of Costa Rica bird blogging and we are excited to have him posting here on 10,000 Birds as both Mike and Corey have been fans of his blog, Costa Rica Living and Birding , for quite some time. Blogging bloggers Costa Rica'

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Finding Solace in Birds

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Other birding experiences have given me opportunities to meet kind, generous people in Mexico who seemed to belong to another time, to wonder if a nearby foraging bear was too close while doing a point count in Colorado, and to feel the deep territorial growl of a Jaguar in the primeval black of a Peruvian rainforest.

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Birding Adventure in Mexico Part II: Durango Highway

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Think Arizona meets Costa Rica with a Mexican twist. The landscape and birds along the road continued to change, and I felt like we were traveling through Colorado rather than Mexico at this point — the various tropical species were almost all gone, replaced by Chipping Sparrow , Common Raven , Killdeer , and others.

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I and the Bird #147: IATB SAT

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Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge in Costa Rica (C) a cacophonous. B) the struggle to survive is savage, as survivors of both the Colorado sparrow shakedown and Tandayapa nectar wars can attest. (C) Long-tailed Parakeet eating tropical mistletoe (B) an erudite. White-throated Dipper in a Swedish stream (D) an insipid.

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Black Swifts Nesting at McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park

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The Black Swift is considered a Species of Special Concern in California.