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Does Choco Screech-Owl Occur in Costa Rica?

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Screech-owls don’t actually screech. I suppose that sounds better than “tremulous”, “modulating”, or “little hooting” owls even if any of those names would be more accurate. One of the more recently, officially recognized screech-owl species is the Choco Screech-Owl.

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Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Ecuador: Two WILDGuides Reviewed

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Birds of Kruger National Park covers the 259 species most frequently seen in the park, about half of the total number of birds documented there. This still leaves the user flipping through sections, looking for the species in question, though I don’t think there are many species with this habitat overlap.

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Quetzals of Ecuador

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Destinations , Trips / Quetzals of Ecuador Quetzals of Ecuador By Renato • March 12, 2011 • 7 comments Tweet Share Ecuador has three types of Quetzals, one in the Amazon basin and two in the east and west slopes.

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Recent Changes to the Costa Rica Bird List

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Folks want to know what they can see, if it’s worth traveling to Trinidad and Tobago, if they should to to Ecuador for three days or three weeks, or if one should drive to Wisconsin to look for a vireo with white eyes or a blue head. The gray hawks weren’t the only north-south sister species that meet in Costa Rica.

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Flights of Passage: a book review

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You can’t say the same about migration: you can’t say that every book about birds is necessarily about migration, for the simple reason that only about 4,000 bird species migrate (with some 1,800 of those traveling long distances). (Well, purely physical attributes play a part, too: they’re pretty good looking.).

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Hang your hammock in the hummingbird family tree

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They’re also one of the most diverse, with approximately 330 species, all in the Western Hemisphere. but their relationships and even the composition of this larger clade (called Cypselomorphae) is not settled ( nighthawks , for instance, may be more closely related to owls than to nightjars). You know, maybe a millennium or two.

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A Birder Attends a (Virtual) Ornithology Conference – Part II

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But I also dabbled in topics such as Snowy Owl eruptions, urban ornithology, window strikes, and eBird (of course). He modeled likely future suitable habitats in a climate change scenario for a number of bird species of conservation concern. Dr. Tom White of the U.S. Additionally, you never know what might be interesting.