10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2011

Above is a photo that I got with my Wingscapes BirdCam when I visited Canopy Lodge in Panama last year. Nyjer (aka Thistle) for goldfinches was introduced from Nigeria–someone had to experiment with that. Grape jelly for orioles was an experiment too. Is it a convenience issue?

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MAY 8, 2017

With enough planning, you can enjoy a family-friendly, bird-rich vacation in the Panama Canal zone. Any dedicated birder visiting Panama City should first consider the Canopy Tower , one of the most important and beloved birding lodges in the Americas. Yes, that’s Panama City to the right. TRANSPORTATION.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Most of the chapters in The Bird Way focus on one or two scientists who has done extensive research on ‘outlier behavior.’ Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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JULY 21, 2018

Located in the mountains that overlook crowded San Jose, this beautiful site acts as a welcome green escape for anyone interested in a cloud forest experience, and for the birder, you could hardly ask for more exciting birding so close to the capital. Prong-billed Barbets are cool weather birds restricted to Costa Rica and western Panama.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2015

This avian celebrity is the Black Guan , an endemic that only haunts the highland forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Come on down and see if you can experience a neotropical turkey-trogon-cotinga fest! Our final turkey is a much-wanted bird on many a birder’s target list.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2017

The high mountains of Costa Rica and Panama are the realm of this royal bird. This comes from experience but a good guide also helps. Once again, experience, and too much time staring at photos and field guides. It was an odd occasion for high-fives and satisfaction at upping the country list by one more bird.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The combination of volcanic and seismic topography is pleasing to the eye but it adds a fair bit of travel time to the birding commute, and I guess that’s pretty much the thing that has kept me from doing much birding around the Costa Rica/Panama border region of San Vito. My view from the Casa Botania.

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JULY 18, 2020

I savor the timeless experience of scanning these tropical waves for storm-petrels and lost jaegers. Want to see a high quality video showing 53 species only be found in Costa Rica and adjacent western Panama? Of course, unless you live on Venus, we all know that this year is far from normal and so is the birding news.

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Costa Rica Birds Thailand Farming 213

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MARCH 21, 2015

The subspecies that occurs in Costa Rica is only found in middle-elevation forests in Costa Rica and Panama and lacks the white line behind the eye shown by South American birds. Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner that range from Carara National Park south to Panama. Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner : No not a case of déjà vu.

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Costa Rica Species South America America 212

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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. Anhinga – Anhinga anhinga; Paquera, 3-Jan.

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Costa Rica 2020 Morals Farming 260

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Mountains beckon just north of the airport and that’s where we ventured for a host of hummingbirds, Furnarids, wood-warblers, and other species, many of which only occur in the highlands of Costa Rica and Panama.

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic By James • March 1, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share Endemism is special. So where does this leave Panama?

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Panama Costa Rica 2011 Cleveland 206

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

If this is Chestnut-headed Oropendola is from Panama, should I worry that it’s going to steal my camera after I digiscoped its picture? It’s been my experience that for every 1 person I know who thinks a certain way, at least 12 others in my circle agree. I’ve had stuff stolen before. I was taken aback.

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Laws Colorado America Kazakhstan 234

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. But at any rate, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that was just incomparable; I hope I never repeat it, but was glad to have had it happen, just to enjoy the amazing encounter and horror movie–type buzz. Carlos’s BBOTY – the Nicobar Pigeon.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 188

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MARCH 15, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Finding Island Scrub-jays Snail Kites, Limpkins and Escargot.Or These Blasts From The Past Sometimes you just have to smile!

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MARCH 22, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Finding Island Scrub-jays Snail Kites, Limpkins and Escargot.Or

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Dominican Republic 2011 Deer Birds 185

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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. by Robert S.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

Drew Lanham draws on years of field experience to give us birders a feeling for what it’s like to hunt wild turkey (noting that he always takes “a bird list from the woods; seldom a life”), concluding with the exact same point. In the next essay, J. Bethancourt, Cape May Bird Observatory director David A.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 140

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APRIL 25, 2019

8%: Brazil, Panama. Although it has a few more birds than Costa Rica (including reliable Harpy Eagles ) and some great lodges, in ecotourism terms, Panama seem to be Costa Rica’s “little brother” (there’s a hidden message to its tourism board). 4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. 17%: Ecuador, Peru.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The birds that I have experience with, like some of the raptors, wading birds, shorebirds, and tanagers, are all true-to-life in color, shape, and proportions to say nothing of being pretty paintings, if slightly sterile on the standard plain white background. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 201

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

For example, in the section on the advantages of single-species flocking behavior, we learn about Eurasian Hazel Grouse in Sweden and Siberia, then Black-capped Chickadees in Ithaca, New York, and then Eastern Kingbirds in Peru and Panama. Because, whether our future winters are warmer or colder, we want to survive them with our birds.

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JULY 6, 2019

While the jays did catch our attention by way of a smart crest and different shades of blue and gray punctuated by a black necklace and mascara, they were part of our common natural experience, their existence was taken for granted. About the same size as a crow, this colorful creature is the largest toucan species in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Panama Eating Eggs South America 175

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

How did they get from the Caribbean across the Isthmus of Panama, which is mountainous and very much in the way? They did it before the Panama Land Bridge formed. The Panama Land Bridge probably started to form, as a series of islands, about 15 million years ago, and by 3 million years ago it was fully in place.

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Tortoises South America Panama Culling 199

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JUNE 27, 2011

Smith is the Staff Scientist Emeritus with the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Centre in Panama. During that search I came across a plover footnote in a notable case of scientific misconduct in the High Arctic. Dr. Neal G. In 1966 he published what was thought to be a ground breaking study on arctic gulls.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2017

The open, dry habitat was perfect for it and the experience was so real, it was almost painful to wake up but alas, no Loggerhead Shrike, just a vivid dream of a migrant bird that could make a mega appearance in Costa Rica. It was big, built for speed, and on the move.

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MAY 3, 2012

Press in 2009), active participation in the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and leading dragonfly trips to Costa Rica and, hopefully this summer, Panama. I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name).

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. The first time I saw one (in Panama, I admit) I didn’t realize it was a damselfly till it perched.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

In addition to Spanish, several other languages continue to be spoken, the pines and cypress trees of the Guatemalan highlands only occur as introduced species once you travel south of Nicaragua, and dozens of bird species that occur in Costa Rica and Panama don’t even make it to Nicaragua.

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Costa Rica Guatemala Birds Nicaragua 115

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DECEMBER 24, 2016

I saw two foraging in a rice field near Playa Panama. Even if this giant stork wasn’t so rare, it would probably still make it onto the list by merit of its cool sounding name. 2 Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle. Since I have seen or heard over 675 species in Costa Rica this year, it was hard to pick the best of the bunch but there they are.

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Costa Rica 2016 Species Birds 100

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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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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 148

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AUGUST 13, 2020

I was trying to find that answer for a while and it turned into a very annoying experience. Panama 1004 Just slightly below the 1000 mark were Angola with 998 and Cameroon with 979 (followed by Australia and Nigeria, both with 970), and these contenders may join the club soon. Which countries topped the list? Tanzania 1135 13.

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MARCH 3, 2015

To research this book, he traveled extensively to see as many woodpeckers as he could; this field experience was supplemented with museum research and consultations with other experts, plus a library of print material ranging from field guides to scientific papers.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 242