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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. It’s not clear how many of the plates have been touched up, redrawn or are new, and I hope we’ll learn more about the process, perhaps when the third book in the series by Howell and Dyer, a new guide to the birds of Mexico, is published.*

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Easy Endemics and Photography at Myriam’s Quetzals, Costa Rica

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You see, Myriam’s is located in what might be the Resplendent Quetzal capital of the world, the valley of San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica. Quetzal is THE beloved, sacred bird of Guatemala and they do live there (and in southern Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) BUT are more accessible in Costa Rica.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America: A Book Review

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So, if you are going to write a field guide on the birds of the countries south and east of Mexico–Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—it makes the utmost sense that you embrace the whole geographic area. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries.

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The wonderful Phainopepla

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A member of the small Ptiliogonatidae family of silky-flycatchers, of which there are only three other species besides our local Phainopepla , Phainopepl nitens. The Black-and-white Phainoptila , Phainoptila melanoxantha from Costa Rica and Panama.

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Birding in Honduras, Part I: Highlands

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One of these islands may have been the present day Northern Central American Highlands which includes Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of extreme southern Mexico (Chiapas). This is a fascinating area of transition. The enigmatic White-throated Flycatcher was the most unusual sighting in the weedy edges of the lakeside.

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For the Love of Ants

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This video by Kathi Borgmann shows an army ant swarm in Mexico. Sixteen species within the antbird family (Thamnophidae) are considered true obligate army ant followers. One of our best was in the lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Instead, their bivouac, as it is called, which holds the queen, moves around in search of prey.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. Press, 1989); A Guide to the Birds to the Birds of Panama, with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, 2nd ed. ,

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