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The 2016 AOU Supplement and the Costa Rica Bird List

10,000 Birds

It is now something that the wood-rails themselves knew all along- there never was a Gray-necked Wood-Rail that lived from Mexico south to the Amazon. The ones in Costa Rica are now known as “ Lesser Violetear ” and if you have seen Green Violetear here and in Mexico, it means that you can add another bird species to your list.