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The Gas Station Bird

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Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses. In Oregon you can’t own any “dangerous” wild animals, but you can get a special permit for a service monkey and anyone can fill their backyard with giraffes. Are we fed up yet?

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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys. Here we look for sandgrouse, bush-quails, francolins, wheatears, shrikes, Laggar Falcons , eagles, buzzards, and the endangered Stolikza’s Bush Chat. We will travel on to the great Thar Desert, a place of immense beauty and peace.

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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

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The three huge eagles are lottery winner rare and the Orange-breasted Falcon has never been documented for the country but the rest are seen here and there on an annual basis. However, that healthy suite of hawks, kites, and forest-falcons comes with an ironic footnote. This curassow is great.

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Half Acre Beer Company: Lead Feather Black Ale

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As for the name, I assume the heteronymic “lead” refers to the heavy metal – so could our unidentified raptor be a Plumbeous Hawk , Plumbeous Kite , or even a Plumbeous Forest-Falcon ? I suppose we shouldn’t get carried away. “Diurnal raptor sp.” ” it is.

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Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, Honduras, Part 1

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Little Blue and Tricolored Herons , Snowy , Great , and Cattle Egrets , a Laughing Falcon , Black Vultures, Blue-winged Teal , a Wood Stork , a nesting tree of Montezuma Oropendulas , and Ruddy Ground-Doves were just some of the species we saw on our short train ride into the refuge. Howler monkeys! My first-ever wild monkeys!

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The Raptor Situation in Costa Rica

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In keeping with high diversity in other aspects of the avian kingdom, including falcons and excluding owls, this small country has a raptor list that tops fifty species. To throw another monkey wrench into the raptor situation, clime change isn’t doing them any favors. I took note of this Swallow-tailed Kite at San Vito.

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Caribbean Lowland Birding at Ara Ambigua Lodge, Costa Rica

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In Costa Rica, even the super shy Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon is seen more often than the island pigeon with the snow-white cap. The Bat Falcon that joined us for breakfast. . Birds with white on them are much more likely to take the form of goodies like the Snowy Cotinga , or two species of tityras.