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The Top 25 Target Birds to Look for in Costa Rica

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When it comes down to it, birders can partake in the hobby, lifestyle, or passion however they want (as long as they don’t harm themselves, others, or the birds). This is what a Black Hawk-Eagle shape looks like. Yellow-naped Parrot. Ornate Hawk-Eagle. Bare-necked Umbrellabird. Black Guan. Black-breasted Wood-Quail.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Jarvis et al. Where do these abilities come from?

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