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Costa Rica’s Signature Parakeet

10,000 Birds

In being wonderfully obvious, such birds become avian ambassadors, special “signature” species with the potential to raise bird awareness, to reconnect crucial links between people and the nature that surrounds them, with the ecosystems they partake in. As one might expect, signature birds take many forms.

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How to See 300 Bird Species in 3 Days

10,000 Birds

Those who only raise binoculars within their own backyards might also decide one day to venture further afield to look for the ones in the field guides that aren’t making it into their limited sphere of birding. Only an hour and a half drive from San Jose, this major intersection of bio-craziness never fails to deliver.