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The Little Big Year – Week 43: Last minute trip to Texas

10,000 Birds

Well, that’s just not really our style, so at the very last minute, we rented a high gas mileage car, thru a few things in a cooler, and our birding gear and headed for south Texas. We left Tucson on Monday, and drove to Alpine, Texas for our first night. That lovely little owl represented bird number 34 for the run thru Texas!

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2014 Arenal Bird Count

10,000 Birds

Some of them, like a rare-to-Costa Rica Nashville Warbler , failed to appear again, but we ticked off a ton of other Neotropical migrants including my life Mourning Warbler ! The University of Texas A&M owns a research facility called the Soltis Center on a fabulous patch of primary forest.

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