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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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So, beside a lot of birds and the sunny sky, I want the coldest thing to experience year-round to be my beer. While there is a lot left to be done when it comes to research and nature protection in many tropical countries, there are not that many jobs in that line of work, and ecotourism seem to be the industry of choice.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. His guides include our own Patrick O’Donnell, who leads Dunn on a quest to see as many hummingbird species as possible across Costa Rica in just two days, an adventure described in his 2015 post “ A Hummingbird Quest in Costa Rica.”)

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Big Day Birding in Costa Rica- Strategies and Constraints

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Witnessing the Champions of the Flyway race, seeing social media coverage of the World Series of Birding, participating in the Global Big Day, and doing my own on April 24th has got me thinking about strategies for better Big Days in Costa Rica. They got all three potoo species in Costa Rica. Targets or habitat?

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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

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But first, not thinking of proper research, I made no difference between questions, nor were the mentioned destinations really visited or only dreamed about. 21%: Costa Rica. 21%: Costa Rica. The number of answers (89) and respondents (about 71, if I counted them correctly) surprised me, as well as some answers.

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Most Wanted Birds in Brazil

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They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. My first tropical birding trip was to Costa Rica when I was 8 and the Jabiru was at the top of my list even then, but sadly none were encountered. The proposal from U.S.

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