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Collaborative list – October 2021

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As things appear to be returning to normal, The UK suffered its worst ever week for Covid infections. 262 Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans. 266 Peregrine Falcon – Falco peregrinus. 434 House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. 452 Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda.

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Solutions for the Top Five Complaints when Birding in Costa Rica

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Despite more than 50 kite, hawk, eagle, and falcon species on the list, nope, we don’t see raptors all that often! People wonder where the raptors are because Common Buzzards or Red-tailed Hawks are pretty much a given if you venture outside in the northern temperate zone. Not the case in Costa Rica.

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Who cares for your ducks in the winter?

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That is because Lago de Cuitzeo receives a huge number of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds, with smaller numbers of sparrows, buntings, and other migratory birds in the areas around the lake’s shore. Not only are the species numbers good, but the spectacle of so, so many individual birds can be thrilling.

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Birding in Honduras, Part I: Highlands

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Birds came fast during the first few hours, including a wide array of classic Neotropical species such as Keel-billed Toucan , Bat Falcon , Bright-rumped Attila , Buff-throated Saltator , and Boat-billed Flycatcher. the species suffering most from deforestation).

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The Twitch

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Yes, suffering readers, it is time once again for a blog post in verse. Whether a shorebird , a falcon , a sparrow , You feel the need deep down in your marrow. And not just any verse, but the horrible, vile, lousy verse that I sometimes produce, verse so bad that it isn’t even worthy of being called poetry. You must go!

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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The Management are still in Africa, suffering the buffering that comes with remoteness. Red-necked Falcon – Falco chicquera. White-browed Sparrow-Weaver – Plocepasser mahali. Shelley’s Rufous Sparrow – Passer shelleyi. Golden-crowned Sparrow – Zonotrichia atricapilla. 26 Nov 2019.

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Moorcroft Manor, a Great Place to Lay a Birding Head Down

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Groups of Cape Turtle Doves feeding on the grass were occasionally joined by a nervous and much larger Rameron Pigeon, and Southern Grey-headed Sparrows and a single Bokmakierie hoped around as well. Above the gardens a wheedling just fledged Gymnogene begged fro food from its long suffering parent.

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