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Looking for Lost Warblers at Parque Rio Loro, Costa Rica

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Those would be birds like Nashville, Black-throated Blue, Prairie, and Cape-May Warblers. This cheerful little bird is very common in second growth and coffee farms of the Central Valley. In Costa Rica, those would be the wood-warblers that do a lot more wintering in the southern USA and the Caribbean than in southern Central America.

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To the Editor: Missing from your article was mention of deleterious environmental and health effects resulting from intensive animal farming in addition to global warming. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass., 5, 2008 The writers are the authors of “ Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World.” Anna Lappé Brooklyn, Dec.

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Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

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Much of this will be familiar to the informed birder: warblers wintering in the Neotropics are losing habitat to forests being converted to farms, but shade coffee plantations provide comparable habitat while sun coffee plantations and silvopastures (tree farms) don’t.

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Little Big Year – Week 35: Route 66, Tucumcari and The Albuquerque area

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The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico! As I mentioned before, Lake Tucumcari is now a large dry lake bed, mostly filled in with one weed or another.

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Collaborative list – January 2020

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Lakeside School catfish farm. Lakeside School catfish farm. Lakeside School catfish farm. Lakeside School catfish farm. Lakeside School catfish farm. Lakeside School catfish farm. Nanhui Dongtan (????). 03 Jan 2020. Australasian Grebe – Tachybaptus novaehollandiae. 01 Jan 2020. 11 Jan 2020.

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Collaborative list – April 2019

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Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. enta fish farm.

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Collaborative list – May 2019

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Chomes–Calle San Agustín and farms. Nashville Warbler – Oreothlypis ruficapilla. Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). enta fish farm. Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. 19 Apr 2019.

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