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AUGUST 17, 2019

Costa Rica is well known for national parks and other protected areas than offer access to tropical ecosystems dripping with biodiversity. The raising of the bins took place along roads through semi-shaded coffee farms and on the grounds of Villa San Ignacio , a hotel with big old wonderful trees and regenerating forest.

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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 Collared Aracari is a small toucan with a sharp beak.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Even if we couldn’t find time to raise the bins at a favorite patch, it only takes momentary glances into the sky and hearing chip notes from the trees to remind us that birds are on the move. Although this elegant raptor is regular in many parts of Costa Rica, it doesn’t usually visit the Central Valley.

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APRIL 27, 2019

Costa Rica is a small yet very birdy country (readers may have gotten that impression on previous posts I have written for 10,000 Birds, at least I hope that has been the case!). The biodiversity is extreme, the birding is typically action-packed, binocular raising happiness.

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MAY 11, 2019

However, fortunately for birders in Costa Rica, we also have an important wood-warbler hotspot. For 13 years, this organization has carried out a bird-a-thon to raise funds for such projects as reforestation in Ecuador and protecting nests of the Harpy Eagle in Brazil. Ernesto and his team in the field. How You Can Help.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Thanks to fortunate foresight, a lot of land was set aside in Costa Rica as national parks and protected areas (and some of these are easily accessed) but the best forest still happens to be at the terminus of the road and en route, you will be treated to species deficit birding in plenty of pastures. A pair of Shining Honeycreepers.

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JULY 4, 2020

Produced by the Shika Shika label, A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean aims to promote birds and musicians from this region while raising funds for bird conservation. The brainchild of music producer, bird lover, and environmentalist Robin Perkins, this digital album is his second guide to birdsong.

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AUGUST 6, 2022

In being wonderfully obvious, such birds become avian ambassadors, special “signature” species with the potential to raise bird awareness, to reconnect crucial links between people and the nature that surrounds them, with the ecosystems they partake in. In Costa Rica, one such bird is the Crimson-fronted Parakeet.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Coming to Costa Rica? Want to go to Costa Rica? Numbers were impressive, especially because that euphonia species isn’t the commonest of birds in Costa Rica. We raised bins, and voila, Collared Forest-falcon ! A juvenile Collared Forest-falcon looks for prey.

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MAY 14, 2016

It was organized to boost eBird use, raise funds for bird conservation, and just get more people out birding. This Yellow Warbler was looking fresh before it left Costa Rica. This call to massive birding was known as the Global Big Day and it was meant to be the first of many GBDs to come.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Those who only raise binoculars within their own backyards might also decide one day to venture further afield to look for the ones in the field guides that aren’t making it into their limited sphere of birding. If a birder in Costa Rica plays the birding cards right, heck, he or she might even hit 300 in a day.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

6), which raises awareness of the perils threatening shorebirds and the need to protect them and their habitats. Such as Chomes, Costa Rica, photographed above by Patrick O’Donnell). That’s when thousands of people worldwide will head out to a beach near them for Global Shorebird Counting.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

When Costa Rica becomes a topic of conversation, we don’t usually hear the word “extinction” being thrown around. But how about when the Costa Rica conversation involves a birder? It’s easy to bedazzle the bins with this one when birding in Costa Rica. Must be a joke, right?

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AUGUST 20, 2015

And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? Costa Rica (857 / 903). And where all those birds are? This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. Map by BirdLife International.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Baird’s Sparrow by Seagull Steve Julie’s was not a wild bird, well, at least not one that lived outdoors: My Best Bird of the Year, and the 22 preceding, was Charlie, a Chestnut-fronted Macaw I got as a captive-raised fledgling in 1989. She made a fool of me when I first met her, and again when she left me.

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APRIL 2, 2016

For those who happen to be faithful followers of posts about birding in Costa Rica, no, you haven’t accidentally browsed to the wrong place. It might not be Costa Rica, but it is one of the most important, birdiest events on the planet, and checking it out was a dream come true. And yes, the need is desperate.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Which Bird Species Have Gone Extinct in Costa Rica? In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific. Bachman’s Lost Warbler. The Lost Macaw of Cuba. Hey, What About the Great Auk? Carolina Parakeet: Mystery of the Incas.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

The beginning of each chapter begins with a stunning, full-page photograph of a gull on the left; each photo shows the gull with wings raised, facing right as if in expectation of wonderful things. And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids.

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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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MARCH 15, 2011

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. to have and raise children. Should we see a parallel between the alpine accentor and traditional populations of the highest mountains in the world?

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JANUARY 1, 2013

A new Australian Big Year Record was set by John Weigel, who did his big year to raise money for Tasmanian Devil conservation. Not only that, but they raised money for the Houston Audubon Society and the Katy Prairie Conservancy. Perhaps the biggest big year of 2012 was in Australia. Pat, let us know in the comments, alright?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). Something needed to be done. Somebody had to take one for the team. Alphabetic Taxonomic.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. Patrick got a very good bird for Costa Rica as his Best Bird of the Year…though the circumstances made it bittersweet.

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JUNE 30, 2022

It is slightly larger than Costa Rica, and in the most strategic places it has a well-developed infrastructure. And the answer to the question I am raising here is, yes, I would travel to Sri Lanka in the next period. Sri Lanka is a ‘must visit country’ for any keen birder. Where to look for the birds?

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