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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Know what else kills grassland birds? Meanwhile, in San Jose, Calif., The last-of-its-kind bird that may have inspired the animated movie Rio is an ex-parrot. If you’ve got some downtime between barbecues and fireworks (or, outside of the U.S., Ill-timed mowing … which a petition aims to stop in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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Little Big Year -Week 38: Our first week in Costa Rica

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After landing in San Jose ay close to 10:00 PM, we made our way to our first Air BnB just north of the airport. After bashing it on a branch to kill it, it did finally get it swallowed. As many of might know by now, we have covered a lot of ground this year, with Costa Rica being our ninth country visited.