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Worth Protecting

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But he is a biologist whose specialty is botany, and he requested my help rounding out the list of 80 bird species he had already seen along the river. We saw 50 species in around five hours, which is a solid number for a summer outing. Species totals can climb by about 50% in the winter, when we receive many migratory birds.).

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The Top 25 Target Birds to Look for in Costa Rica

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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? Rufous-winged Woodpecker. Resplendent Quetzal.

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Danum Valley: Simply the Best

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But a a package, if I had to rate the best places I’ve ever been birding, the only place I can think that comes close is Mweya, in Uganda, or maybe Tikal, in Guatemala. Danum Valley is a conservancy that protects a large area of lowland rainforest in Sabah in northeastern Borneo. An oversubscribed night drive didn’t help.

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