10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2022

Better magnification is always preferred but there’s no need to investigate tiny toe palmations or miniscule feathered details on these magnificant mud probers. These are the usual shorebird royalty that winter in Costa Rica but there’s another prince of mud flats that pays a visit, every once in a while.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In Costa Rica, they can take the form of everything from toucans (think crows with giant shark inspired beaks) to herons and monkeys. Cope had been inside making us some coffee (nothing like watching birds and drinking coffee in Costa Rica). The rails did indeed come to investigate but came up empty-beaked.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2016

Birders concerned with ticking off bird species from a list in North America already know all about the AOU Supplement. In the recent supplement, differences in song, DNA, and physical appearance played a role in several splits, including five that affect Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

In the northern hemisphere, the combination of migrants, resident species, and higher frequency of bird song makes it much easier to identify more birds, compared to say, August, so if you want to get really crazy and go for a Big Day record, spring is the time to go for it. They got all three potoo species in Costa Rica.

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JUNE 30, 2018

This is because we have had to work together to survive and thrive as a species, and that’s probably why selfish behavior is not generally viewed as being the nicest of ways to be. For hummingbirds, though, since cooperation leads to quick starvation, they ain’t no such thing as a team!

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