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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

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but there are other birds, many stopping to stay, many others moving to South America. Costa Rica being such a small place, one hardly ever seems out of earshot of roads with rumbling trucks and auditory attacking motorcycles, of dogs hell bent on barking into the night, of occasional music being played. Cuckoos are up There.

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Lifer! But, which one?

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and Canada and winter in northeastern Mexico, while the sedentary wrens of central Mexico, Central America, and South America are now to be identified as Grass Wrens. Perhaps my interests are a bit… eclectic, but I just have to show you two of Ignacio’s dogs before I close this out. Did they show up for us?

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What is the National Bird of Aruba?

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Burrowing Owls, whose range extends into Mexico, the United States, and South America, can live in varied habitats , including deserts and grasslands, golf courses and airports, agricultural fields and vacant lots. Unlike many other owl species, the male and the female are the same size.

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The Return of Least Terns to the Gulf Coast

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Though they weight less than two ounces, Least Terns migrate from South America to the West, East, and Gulf Coast to breed on dunes or flat gravel roofs (there are also populations in the middle of the United States). In Florida, the Least Tern is a state-designated threatened species; the interior populations are federally endangered.

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Freeze-birding down the Danube

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A flock of small birds at the dyke, Yellowhammers mostly… I cannot see well because of one enthusiastic hunting dog which takes pleasure in running through the snow and flushing them up whenever the birds land. Scanning the water for rarer species… S. warns me of two locally rare Bean Geese. Watch for the dark beaks.”

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My Favorite Release

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August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. I started calling her, patting my knees (much like you’d call a dog, for gawd’s sake), “Sophie! Finally, it was just Sophie left. You can do this!

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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“Invasive&# is an ugly word, and ugly consequences have come from many of the explosive range expansions we’re most familiar with, whether of exotic species or even of native species with their normal restraints removed. Especially of all the species that had been introduced to the US.

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