10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2022
Bird names say much about human perception, they can also give us insight into the people who invented names for official bird descriptions. In Costa Rica, we have our pewees, 6 species of them. Millions of pewees fly over and stop in Costa Rica on their way to and from South America. Western Wood-Pewee.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Similarly, descriptions of species repeated across volumes do not lose their accuracy with each publication.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2021
If the avian realm had self-conscious, talking ambassadors, “spokebirds”, which species would partake in birding conferences? Without careful attention paid to the needs of the shyer birds, such conventions would run the risk of being overrun with the bolder species, the birds that love the spotlight.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2022
Not quite there yet… perhaps some day but not until most of us humans live in a sustainable manner that does not excavate and alter basic ecosystem functions we depend on. After the fireworks end, I listen for that first bird of the night, count the first species calling at the break of dawn. Not this year.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2020
In Costa Rica, the tenth month is when birds pass through in droves. In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. Even while listening to nocturnal flight calls, it seems hard to assess what flies over Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2022
Even so, in the short term, it can be hard to accept that hundreds of species are close to being extinguished from this irreplaceble tapestry of life, that hundreds more are headed for the same eventual abysmal stop. We would see how species that used to be common, even abundant, became remnants of their former, robust populations.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2022
Costa Rica is more than cloud forest with mega worthy quetzals, more than rainforest with fancy Keel-billed Toucans and luscious Green Honeycreepers. They are places where we invest most of our birding time and rightly so; mature tropical forests are where we find the highest number of species. Pied Puffbird.
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