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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

The cuisine was magnificent, especially lamb. Short-toed Snake-Eagle – Circaetus gallicus. Great Spotted Woodpecker – Dendrocopos major. Eurasian Green Woodpecker – Picus viridis. Also, trekking poles proved useful. Finally, Greeks do have some magic potion called tsipouro, very worth trying.

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Birdmania at the Cano Negro Bird Count, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

“Bird Count at Cano Negro” was too mundane to portray the boat rides, mosquitoes, remote habitats, the surprise lamb chops lunch, and other situations. With that tragic news went any hopes of finding something like a Crested Eagle or Great Jacamar but it would still be exciting to visit. What still lived there?