10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2024
There are bird species with the power of personality and feathered friends with super migratory prowess. I live in Costa Rica, a place that makes up for the lack of cardinals with trogons, motmots, and like 900 other bird species. I wonder which birds are most popular in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2020
In Costa Rica, our July birding news usually consists of interesting sightings during the mid-summer tours. No tours means much less birding, especially on my part and with further restrictions to movement having been recently declared in Costa Rica, birding outside of the neighborhood has come to a full stop.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
It would be uber cool to lay eyes on a rare lifer, on species that only seem to live on the pages of a field guide but isn’t that somewhat discriminatory? And why spend time only looking for one or two species when those hours could be used to put binos focused on a few dozen? Aren’t all birds worth watching?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2015
In Costa Rica, although I did spend a memorable one years ago in the Osa Peninsula where flocks of parrots flew into the mangroves while we feasted on turkey, pie, and the works, we have no actual Wild Turkeys , nor an official Thanksgiving. That last little bit is also why we call it “Turkey Day”! Ain’t I great?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
I am in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, in the very southeastern corner of Costa Rica. But why would someone look for that, an easy and common one among the 920+ bird species of Costa Rica? Part one: An Absolute Beginner in Costa Rica. One of those pooie reptiles: Green Iguana by Niklas Aronsson.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
When looking for birds in Costa Rica, the Central Valley isn’t the first place that comes to mind. Some call them trash, tours might not visit, but they can host more than the expected and common species. Some such vegetated spots can also attract oddball birds, species that wander to find a home in urban circumstances.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
Our bogey or nemesis species, birds that we would opt to see over others. Back in the early days of birding with optics, I wonder if such wanted species would have been birds that were much more common in present times. I was pleased to see a couple this year in Costa Rica. Still need it for Costa Rica.
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