10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 227

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It consists of a small reserve with a well maintained in site trail (over 195 species recorded, many endemic and rare birds accessible), cozy lodging and a dining room. All ingredients are fresh, obtained a day earlier from various farms in the neighbourhood. Seeing the way this goes, I decided not to send her a photo of Serge.

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Costa Rica Panama Squirrels Nicaragua 219

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

It would be uber cool to lay eyes on a rare lifer, on species that only seem to live on the pages of a field guide but isn’t that somewhat discriminatory? And why spend time only looking for one or two species when those hours could be used to put binos focused on a few dozen? Aren’t all birds worth watching?

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Costa Rica Panama Birds Eagles 202

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2017

While we could chase a number of local, rare residents, looking for super tough species like Pheasant Cuckoo and Tawny-faced Quail is more akin to searching and lurking in appropriate habitat and just hoping to get lucky. In Costa Rica, we don’t get many chances to chase birds. Happy birders looking at an Aplomado Falcon.

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Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Nicaragua 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

In addition to Spanish, several other languages continue to be spoken, the pines and cypress trees of the Guatemalan highlands only occur as introduced species once you travel south of Nicaragua, and dozens of bird species that occur in Costa Rica and Panama don’t even make it to Nicaragua.

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Costa Rica Guatemala Birds Nicaragua 113