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Isolation, a.k.a. Business as Usual

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Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering. These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. A Lineated Woodpecker banged its head against a dry branch. To our delight, several hundred Dickcissels were busy feeding in a dry, scorched bamboo grove.

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Some Birding News about Birders in Costa Rica

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I savor the timeless experience of scanning these tropical waves for storm-petrels and lost jaegers. Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. Like a spy or avian investigator, I can scope them right through the front door, watch them at will.

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Come@Me: Hummingbirds are Jerks

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Fighting, bickering, and more fighting – I think it’s safe to say that most of us experience enough of arguing, fighting, and other awful toxic behaviors to not need any more of it in our lives. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral. This tribe is famed for the incredible lip plates that the women wear.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Please go to [link] Tags: macaws , parrots , peru , tambopata • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region.

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