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Costa Rica’s Best Birds of Halloween

10,000 Birds

This is why the Yellow Warblers and Baltimore Orioles of summer don’t linger to experience October 31st, and even late fall migrants like kinglets and sparrows move to slightly warmer regions. Another bird with a mask, albeit one more suited to a party in ancient Egypt or a soiree in the Roaring Twenties. Lesser Ground-Cuckoo.

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Birding St Lucia, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Apparently, while in Egypt waiting for a boat to return to Germany he collected specimens of the bird which is now named after him. The Grey-headed Gull has the typical facial expression we are familiar with from gulls and second-hand car dealers. Never happens to me when I am waiting for a bus.