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Costa Rica?s Almost Endemic Trogon

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You may need to bird with an open mind and watching eye but look close and even the pigeons flying through human-made canyons can be a source of inspiration, their swift flight transforming them into amazing creatures and taking us to other places. Like the Urban Birder says, “Look up!

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Critically Endangered Birds in Costa Rica- How to See Them, How to Help Them

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Some ways to help this incredible bird include supporting the Macaw Recovery Network , any efforts to protect and reforest habitat from eastern Honduras to eastern Panama and northern Colombia, and never buying a Great Green Macaw. Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata).

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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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. Panama’s Vulture – Jan Axel, Jan’s Birding Blog. California Condor , photo by Sheridan Woodley.

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Best Bird of the Year 2014

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I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). Yes, it was an exceptionally good year. Travel is good for the birding soul.

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Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

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This includes current research (up to about 2016, but mostly earlier) on how climate change and human change are affecting the birds’ ecology and behavior. The effect can be overwhelming, and I found myself reading some sections two, even three times, to understand it all.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans. Humans can probably just find their own little place to thrive. food selection from some kind of mystery buffet? Makes sense really. Perhaps who you gravitate toward at parties- new people or old friends? The proposal from U.S.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

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The cozy relationship between Honduras’s military coup leaders and the corporatocracy were confirmed a couple of days after my arrival in Panama. The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) Now, that optimism was turning sour. 3) George W.

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