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Big Day Birding in Costa Rica- Strategies and Constraints

10,000 Birds

Looking for terns, White-eyed Gulls , and other seabirds from North Beach, Eilat, Israel during Champions of the Flyway. For example, I recall some fine memorable mornings at the Tambopata Research Center where I walked into the forest, sat on a bench, and identified more than 120 species before breakfast, almost all of them by sound.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

10,000 Birds

Of course, the paper ends with the usual thinly disguised request for more research grants: “This sharing behavior could indicate a high level of social awareness and prosociality that should be further investigated. However, this makes it a bit surprising that it was also named Israel’s national bird.

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