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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

10,000 Birds

Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor. This equates to a decline of 99% over three generations for Nicaragua and Costa Rica (IUCN 2019).

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Aplomado Twitch in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

In fact, right now, in all likelihood, there probably are a few Aplomados up that way hunting in some far off fields never visited by birders. The guy on the right is Sergio Arias, check out his Costa Rica Birding Hotspot Stand at Birdfair. Luckily, the one that was twitched by many birders last weekend (moi included!)