10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). © 2018, Princeton University Press D. © 2003 text H.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. One of these islands may have been the present day Northern Central American Highlands which includes Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of extreme southern Mexico (Chiapas). This is a fascinating area of transition.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

The Golden-browed Warbler is described as a skulker in Steve Howell and Sophie Webb’s ‘A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America’ In my limited experience, it is a bird that enjoys the high life and likes to party with the Red Warbler in the mountain forests.

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MAY 20, 2014

The Horned Guan is not just one of, if not THE standout birds of Mexico and Guatemala, but of the entire world. Endemic to mountaintop cloud forest patches in Chiapas and Guatemala, perhaps occurring at a maximum of six locations in Mexico and a handful more in Guatemala, the Horned Guan is restricted to a tiny, fragmented range.

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JANUARY 18, 2020

Most of all, the time and effort is worth it when we see new birds, surpass our goals, and when we share those trying, challenging, exuberant and triumphant times with others because the birding party is always better, always stronger, when you you can enjoy the experience with like-minded souls.

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AUGUST 3, 2019

While this amazing bird can also be readily seen in Guatemala, western Panama, and a few other places, ease of access in Costa Rica and fantastic appearance put it onto this list. Endangered and awesome, it’s pretty easy to experience this big parrot in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica from Tarcoles north to near Nicaragua.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2014

A bite from an army ant can really pack a punch; I speak from experience. We also had a great ant swarm in Tikal in Guatemala where in one binocular view we saw Ruddy Woodcreeper , Tawny-winged Woodcreeper , and Northern-barred Woodcreeper. Tawny-winged Woodcreeper.

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JUNE 17, 2015

But a a package, if I had to rate the best places I’ve ever been birding, the only place I can think that comes close is Mweya, in Uganda, or maybe Tikal, in Guatemala. But I believe birding should be more than just “getting birds” Danum Valley is an experience, and I can’t recommend it enough. A tick is a tick.

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JUNE 3, 2014

There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. And, they are fascinating. Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Birding Experiences. But first take a moment and click through to some of the wonderful submissions from the month of February. There’s something for everybody! Costa Rica. Finca Luna Nueva Lodge. Arenal Observatory Lodge and Spa. Macaw Lodge. InkaNatura Travel. Bird Uganda Safaris. Birding Expeditions. Capture Africa Safaris.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Archaeological, zooarchaeological, and ancient DNA evidence combine to confirm the identification and context. Early Holocene Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Remains from SOUTHERN Utah: Implications for the Origins of the Puebloan Domestic Turkeys. Kiva 78(1):37–60. Reitz, Elizabeth.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. Nevertheless, it necessary to combine field experience with museum experience to create a vivid and accurate image of a species. CONCLUSION.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Most of them based in a single attractive, historic, and easily walkable city or town, my tours, under VENT’s Birds, Nature, and Culture rubric, always see plenty of birds: hoopoes and rollers in France, Great Bustards and bean geese in Germany, Fulvous Owls and Black-capped Swallows in Guatemala are just a few examples.

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APRIL 28, 2018

After a brief look at a map, my rough guesstimate is that the territory from Guatemala and Belize south to the Darien gap is roughly equal to New England, or Florida and the eastern parts of Georgia and the Carolinas north to the Virginia line. Central America is much smaller than the land encompassed within the borders of Canada and the USA.

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MAY 25, 2011

As his passion for birding grew he decided to travel Latin America; he has spent time in Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela and a great deal of time in Brazil. One of his most memorable birding experiences was the six months spent in Northeast Brazil performing research on a new species of bird called the Araripe Manakin.

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MARCH 17, 2011

We see countries as more than just locales for landmarks and landmarks as more than just souvenirs of bygone cultures (have you ever birded Tikal in Guatemala? Perhaps you’ve had the same experience. Birding opened up Central America for me in a way that nothing else did.

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APRIL 8, 2012

Catbirds are not the unfortunate result of unwise experiments with radioactivity. We can start first with what catbirds are not. Catbirds are also not the result of unholy intercourse between avians and felines. They are not flying cats nor birds with whiskers. So what are catbirds?

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APRIL 15, 2012

Anyway, it was some ungodly hour that we all awakened from our beds at Hotel Don Udo’s in Copan Ruinas and piled into the back of two trucks for our four-wheel drive excursion high into the hilly terrain near the border with Guatemala. If you ever go I hope you have as good an experience as I did.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Many studies have shown that a life rich in new experiences, and especially learning a new language late in life, can help stave off the onset of dementia. Of course, it is possible to live in Mexico while avoiding many new experiences; but why would you want to? Good choice!).

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. I wrote about the experience here. But really, the year was sewn up six days in when one bird made a spirited attempt to disembowel me with claws as long as my hand (or at least that was what he seemed to want to do).

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