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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks , Muscovy Ducks and Blue-winged Teals were around us, together with Green , Great and Little Blue Herons , Cattle and Great White Egrets , Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons , plus one locally rare Pinnated Bittern in the floating vegetation, as well as several dozen Neotropical Cormorants.

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Recent Changes to the Costa Rica Bird List

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This does not include the various changes made to Latin names, taxonomic ordering, nor changes to families.: Split from the Three-striped Warbler of South America, yet another species is added to the list of birds only found in the mountains of Costa Rica and Panama. Spot-bellied Bobwhite bites the dust. A new endemic foliage-gleaner!

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Panama Trip Report: April 2017

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Can a family-focused trip—even to one of the world’s most biodiverse countries—deliver enough opportunities for avian observation to satisfy this serious world birder? With enough planning, you can enjoy a family-friendly, bird-rich vacation in the Panama Canal zone. Yes, that’s Panama City to the right.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America: A Book Review

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Each family group starts with a description of what traits are common to the species within the family, its representation in Northern Central America, and other interesting, relevant facts. Each species account lists the basics—common name, scientific name, measurements in inches and centimeters.

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Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The.

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Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description. … Tags: books , brazil , field guide , Reviews • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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Colorful + Devious = Toucans of Costa Rica

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There were birds to watch but they were the gulls and ducks on the river, the sparrows in the fields, the finches that came to the feeder, the beautiful American Kestrel on the roadside wire. The counterpart of the Collared Aracari on the South Pacific slope of Costa Rica, this near endemic also ranges into parts of western Panama.

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No Need to Fear the Flycatcher in Costa Rica

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After the birding bugs bites, the abundance of new and colorful birds makes it easy to overlook or even blatantly ignore sparrows, “seagulls”, female ducks, and flycatchers. The Black-capped Flycatcher is an Empid restricted to high elevation habitats of Costa Rica and western Panama.