10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2018

Here are a few of my recommendations for some such esteemed members of the Costa Rican avifauna: Forest Football Chicken or FFC (Great Tinamou) – Since tinamou sounds like the perfect representation of an oddly-shaped bird with a small head that gives beautiful tremulous vocalizations, I am sorely tempted to leave this one off the list.

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Costa Rica Chickens Birds Soreing 173

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Rumor has it that the sorely-needed authoritative book on flycatchers is in the works…it can not be published quickly enough. Falcons are now known to be related to parrots; vultures to be cousins of storks. My own work, “Not Convinced: Going To Battle With A Generation of Stringers”, is due to be released soon.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

This latest addition to the ABA State Field Guide series is sorely needed in places like Wakodahatchee. The binding also appears to be strong; I’m able to open to Prairie Falcon in Colorado , pressing open the pages so they lie flat, without fear that I will crack the spine. (It’s

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Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Plenty of other species stopped by, of course, but they were sorely outnumbered. In the parking lot of a shopping plaza, however, he saw a Peregrine Falcon come plunging out of nowhere to absolutely obliterate a Rock Pigeon. If was amazing, if somewhat sad for the pigeon.

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Soreing Turkey Falcons Birds 217