10,000 Birds

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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Costa Rica San Jose Asia Geese 147

10,000 Birds

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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Costa Rica San Jose Sharks Monkeys 238

10,000 Birds

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. Only an hour and a half drive from San Jose, this major intersection of bio-craziness never fails to deliver.

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 176