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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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So, beside a lot of birds and the sunny sky, I want the coldest thing to experience year-round to be my beer. Which leaves me with quite a few choices – practically the entire tropical belt, right? While I do enjoy the first snow of the season, the second snow is a different matter. As is every one after it.

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Birding in Honduras, Part II: Pico Bonito Lodge

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The Lodge at Pico Bonito is an inviting, idyllic place for relaxation as well as for enjoying wildlife. Cuery y Salado Preserve protects a coastal mangrove system full of wildlife from monkeys to trogons. We first visited Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge. Trips Central America cotinga Honduras Pico Bonito'

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Cape May Warbler Dendroica tigrina

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I was fortunate enough to spot the individual in this post at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where it was foraging in bushes and small trees between four and fifteen off of the ground. Read about them here but also get out and experience them. That is unfortunate because the Tiger Warbler * is one wood-warbler worth watching.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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Best Bird of the Year 2014

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Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. What was yours?

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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–especially when reviewing books like A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia or Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds. He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. It is not always easy to get the right color in printed photographs.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. Text is on the left, plates are on the right. One field guide, seven countries.

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