10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Personally, I love the day because I know that while I am out listening for owls and watching mixed flocks in Costa Rica, countless other members of the birding tribe are doing the same over there in the windswept plains of Rajastan, in the dripping cloud forests of Peru, in birdy New York’s Central Park, and so many other special places.

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Costa Rica Species West Virginia New York 215

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

There’s so much more that can be said about this group of birds but that’s the first description that comes to mind. Although most New World Barbets live in the tropical forests of South America (“the bird continent”), us birders in Costa Rica are fortunate to have two species to watch and listen to.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Those woodpeckers are some smart-looking birds, and Costa Rica has her fair share with 16 species that head-bang from the dry forests of the northwest to the high-elevation rainforests of the mountains. A local, brownish subspecies of the Hairy Woodpecker is one of this avian clan that resides in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Woodpeckers Honduras Panama 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal , Three-wattled Bellbird , Orange-collared Manakin , fancy hummingbirds , tanagers, and literally hundreds of other birds. This bunch of possible Costa Rican crypto birds can be grouped into four main categories: (1). One of them quetzals.

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Costa Rica Species South America America 217

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

I reside in Costa Rica, the country is roughly the same size as West Virginia, but I rarely make it to some parts of this birdy nation. It’s not just wonderful because there’s all sorts of species to look for, including a few for which distributions in Costa Rica are more or less restricted to that region.

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Costa Rica West Virginia Birds Panama 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Ah, Costa Rica, so long I have dreamed of visiting you and your amazing birds. As many of might know by now, we have covered a lot of ground this year, with Costa Rica being our ninth country visited. As many of might know by now, we have covered a lot of ground this year, with Costa Rica being our ninth country visited.

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Costa Rica Tigers San Jose Woodpeckers 115

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Our second week here in Costa Rica has certainly seen a great increase in the amount of rain. We are looking up in the sky, trying to identify the small group of swifts that are circling over head, when we are joined by a young man with his camera and tripod. per person) and head back outside to look around the area.

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Costa Rica Falcons Mexico Groups 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

Last Sunday, it was never as obvious as it was with the small group of Phainopepla , Phainopepla nitens. The Black-and-white Phainoptila , Phainoptila melanoxantha from Costa Rica and Panama. I thoroughly enjoyed watching them swoop erratically from tree to tree to cactus.

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Costa Rica Panama Nevada Guatemala 106

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2022

Once you get to Costa Rica, you’ll already know those birds so well, it will be like meeting distant family members and famous folks for the very first time.Over and over! In brief, you’ll be ready for those birds in Costa Rica, ready to soak them up and have a fantastic trip. Right, say what?!

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Costa Rica Birds Panama Rights 255

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to Honduras in 2014, I was advised to use The Birds of Costa Rica by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean (2014) and The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve N.G. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries. Howell and Sophie Webb (a classic, but big and published in 1995).

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 234

Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

This is a great group that I've spotlighted before. Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama. At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala.

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Guatemala World Society For The Protection Of Animals Spay Spaying 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

It’s an exciting time for birding in Costa Rica. Migration is happening in Costa Rica and the avian movements are fierce. It’s fierce because a procession of kites flock their way through the Caribbean lowlands in groups that number in the hundreds, even thousands. Such a lovely sight. Small plovers.

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Costa Rica South America Panama Morals 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

I think this is one of the reasons why so many people visiting Costa Rica want to see the bird with the big banana bill, some ask if you have seen “the toucan” Photos and field guides have shown them that these fantastic cartoonish birds do indeed exist and they have heard that a lot of visitors to Costa Rica see toucans.

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Costa Rica Panama Eating Eggs South America 180

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

If I ever see a Bay-headed Tanager in Costa Rica again, I’ll observe it knowing that its ancestors were from South America and that they are relatively recent arrivals to Central America, having crossed the Isthmus of Panama at the end of Pliocene epoch. 70) is adorable as well as educational.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2015

In fact, thanks to the Empids, few other groups of birds seem to be more associated with dread than the tyrant-flycatchers. Yes, they look pretty similar, and also look sort of look like four or five other species in Costa Rica. In Costa Rica, the Mountain Elaenia is one of the most common species in semi-open highland areas.

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Costa Rica Panama Species Sparrows 198

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. Press, 1989); A Guide to the Birds to the Birds of Panama, with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, 2nd ed. , Skutch (Cornell Univ.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

I was just curious what the US birders dream about, so I posted a question in the ABA’s FB group: a) what are the most popular foreign destinations and b) where would you go with unlimited funds? 8%: Brazil, Panama. 21%: Costa Rica. I had no intention of making a questionnaire or analysing the results. 17%: Ecuador, Peru.

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Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The accounts vary in length from two to six pages, and are well illustrated with photographic images by Ryan Phillips of the Belize Raptor Research Institute and a group of 40 photographers from the United States and Central America.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Five species are grouped in a chapter titled (4) Dark Horse Gulls (Rare or Unlikely Gulls). The text proper is divided into these sections: Profile, the must-read section; Status and Distribution, complete with range map; two to five sections describe plumage and other anatomical identification features, divided into age groups.

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North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 204

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Press in 2009), active participation in the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and leading dragonfly trips to Costa Rica and, hopefully this summer, Panama. I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name).

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United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

9 beats, birded 9 countries this month; Belize , Guatamala , Costa Rica, UK, Iran, USA, Greece, Australia and Mexico. Panama Rainforest Discovery Center. Lassen Volcanic NP–Lost Creek Group Campground. Radisson Summit Hotel and Golf Panama. Panama Rainforest Discovery Center. Pico da Caledônia.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Whilst working on Scarlet Macaws in Costa Rica , I had the pleasure of having Katherine Herbourn assist with some of the field work we were doing. Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks.

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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 149

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

Submissions for February have been received from Austria, Australia, UK, Japan, Costa Rica, Serbia, Mexico, USA, The Bahamas and Lichtenstein. Submissions for February have been received from Austria, Australia, UK, Japan, Costa Rica, Serbia, Mexico, USA, The Bahamas and Lichtenstein. Alphabetic Taxonomic. 13 Jan 2017.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100