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Grouse in PA, Grouse in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

One such surprising experience happened with grouse. In keeping with gamebird tradition, my first experience with grouse wasn’t one of a bird on a branch or something singing from a tree. Watch and listen for the birds as they rustle through the leaf litter. Wood-warblers lived in those Appalachian forests, many of them!

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CBC Shenanigans

10,000 Birds

At 6am it was still dark in the (relatively) high elevation rainforest where Golden-crowned Warblers fluttered just above the leaf litter, Collared Trogons and Hepatic Tanagers gathered to feed on the bounty of moths still on offer. This hulking Peregrine Falcon was very accommodating to say the least. Pinnated Bittern.

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