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Urban Birding in San Diego

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There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.

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Some Birding News about Birders in Costa Rica

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Which tours saw the most roosting owls? This odd nocturnal creature is around the same size as a Barred Owl. Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. A Fantastic Day of 200 Plus Species. What has Chambito been seeing in Cano Negro?

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The Pleasure and Pain of Pino Real

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He is the author of an internationally distributed book in Spanish about family finances and has recorded four albums in Spanish of his own songs. But then I moved to Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, which has almost no opportunities to see interesting species (except for a good population of burrowing owls). east of Morelia.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru.

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Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bobolink Saison

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For many grassland species, our vast expanses of tilled and plowed fields, orchards and vineyards, pastures and rangeland offer an abundance of convenient food and shelter – and some bolder birds even wander indoors to find these things in our barns and stables.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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The field site I am assigned to is located in one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world and home to a particularly rich avifauna that numbers well over 500 species. Hundreds of riotously colored birds representing 14 species of macaws and parrots flock and frolic together in less than fifty meters of forest canopy.

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Last CBC of the Decade

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For birders who have visited T&T in the past, the livestock station has always been a staple site for several key species that would be fairly difficult elsewhere. Likely a Tropical Screech-Owl , but nothing definitive. A Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl that was fervently vocalizing however, was the first for the list.

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