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Casa Tangara dowii, Costa Rica, or over the Misty Mountains cold

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Casa dowii is located in Cartago Province, along the Panamerican Highway in the Navarro Sombrero Protected Area that buffers Tapanti and Los Quetzales National Parks. The consolation prize came in the form of two Prong-billed Barbets , chunky ochre birds with thick silver bills, a local endemic that Costa Rica shares with western Panama.

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McKee Project Expands Work into Guatemala and Other Latin American Countries

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This is a great group that I've spotlighted before. At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala. Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama.

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Guide to the Birds of Honduras Translation Project

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If I’m not mistaken, it took more than twenty years for Ridgely’s Guide to the Birds of Panama to come out in a Spanish edition. A group of twenty volunteers have been busy translating the nearly 500 pages of the Honduran bird book and are nearly half-way done. Good question and kind of hard to swallow.

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Recent Changes to the Costa Rica Bird List

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The Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner was finally split into at least two species, the ones that live in southern Costa Rica and adjacent Panama now being known as “ Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner “ Plain Wren wasn’t so plain after all. A new endemic foliage-gleaner! More exciting news! Canebrake Wren. Costa Rican Warbler.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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We’ll take these two similar, yet very different groups of birds separately. The program has been successful enough that some of the birds have been released back into protected areas in California, Arizona, and across the border in Baja, but the species is still far from out of the woods. millions years ago. New World Vultures.

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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

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I was just curious what the US birders dream about, so I posted a question in the ABA’s FB group: a) what are the most popular foreign destinations and b) where would you go with unlimited funds? 8%: Brazil, Panama. I had no intention of making a questionnaire or analysing the results. 10%: Australia, Papua New Guinea. 21%: Costa Rica.

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Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

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These complexities multiply when describing the winter (and pre-winter and post-winter) lives of more than one, in this case, any and all species that have been studied for their migratory, winter feeding and protective movements, or any related behavior.

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