10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A movement among bromelias, a hummingbird… it’s the Purple-throated Mountain-gem , Serge IDs it, a regional endemic that Costa Rica shares with neighbouring Nicaragua and Panama. Seeing the way this goes, I decided not to send her a photo of Serge. Okay, no more waiting, off to lunch in the Savegre River Valley we go… To be continued.

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AUGUST 3, 2019

We have several quail-dove species in Costa Rica, this one is only found in cloud forest here and in western Panama. This sprite made it onto the list because its the smallest bird in Costa Rica and is maybe easier here than in western Panama. In some spots, this amazing bird even visits feeders. Buff-fronted Quail-Dove. Volcano Junco.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

8%: Brazil, Panama. Although it has a few more birds than Costa Rica (including reliable Harpy Eagles ) and some great lodges, in ecotourism terms, Panama seem to be Costa Rica’s “little brother” (there’s a hidden message to its tourism board). 4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. 17%: Ecuador, Peru.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

601-800 sp: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama; Russia; Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa; Laos, New Guinea (PNG); Australia. 2 Panama (8.8 % of the global number – 976 species / 12 endemic species). 801-1000 sp. –

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2021

Its range extends as far as Nicaragua in Central America, where it is joined, in Costa Rica and Panama, by The Slaty Flowerpiercer. The Cinnamon-rumped Flowerpiercer is the only flower-piercing game in town if you live in North America. And yes, Mexico is part of North America, not Central or South America.)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama make up Central America. Notice that had I not used the Oxford Comma there, you’d be thinking “Costa Rica and Panama” was a country like Trinidad and Tobago. Or Antigua and Barbuda. Or Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Actively birding in Costa Rica as well as Nicaragua and Panama as well as the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Degree in Natural Resources Management, former part of Board of Directors for the Ornithological Association of Costa Rica, and involved with Bird Monitoring Projects and Sustainability Consulting.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

It only lives in middle elevation habitats of southern Costa Rica and western Panama. The tiniest bird in Costa Rica is also limited to hedgerows and other edge habitats in middle elevations of Costa Rica and western Panama. White-tailed Emerald. In common with several emerald species, this one is also endemic to a small area.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2017

I’m still recovering from several days of blisteringly good birding in Panama, including a jaunt down Old Gamboa Road. This legendary trail connected to Summit Ponds hosts all manner of Canal Zone specialties, including an abundance of hawks, kites, falcons, and owls.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

The Black-and-white Phainoptila , Phainoptila melanoxantha from Costa Rica and Panama. Then there is the Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher , Ptilogonys caudatus , living in some of the high mountains of Costa Rica and Panama. The females are a dark, slate colored gray, with much more obvious white edges on the wing feathers.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2019

Panama Flycatchers and Streak-backed Orioles also fed at close range. Although the hoped for Mangrove Vireo failed to show, we had excellent close studies of Panama Flycatcher and Northern Scrub-Flycatcher. Other dry forest species made appearances, Stripe-headed Sparrows being especially common.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

Panama 1004 Just slightly below the 1000 mark were Angola with 998 and Cameroon with 979 (followed by Australia and Nigeria, both with 970), and these contenders may join the club soon. That is where Ecuador, Uganda and especially Panama stand out as being manageably small, which may be another reason to focus on them.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 7, 2021

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JULY 1, 2020

Eight occur only in South America, three spill over from there just into Panama, and one reaches from South America through much of Central America. Most have dark crests, and most are sexually dimorphic (males and females look different). There are 17 species of Becard. Two reach from South America all the way to southeastern Mexico.

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AUGUST 21, 2021

Panama Flycatcher. In Costa Rica, this former Clapper Rail is pretty local and only occurs in shorter, scrubby mangroves. Given the few areas where it is known to occur, I have to wonder how many actually live in Costa Rica? This Myiarchus is a bird of mangrove forests, at least in Costa Rica.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

The one in front of me is registered in Panama. India being one of the centers of the ship breaking industry, cutting the hulls apart for scrap recycling, these boats have strange names and even stranger ports of registration. All of them are former life boats, adapted into fishing boats and now waiting for the tide.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

Black-bellied Hummingbirds can only be found in Costa Rica and western Panama. Because, honestly, when am I going to get back to Costa Rica again or go to Panama? Also, it is fun to type or say Bananaquit. Bananaquit. Bananaquit. Which makes me very glad to have seen this species. These dudes are total jerks.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2017

We staggered in last night from a very successful Panama vacation, with success marked both by memories made and birds seen. This weekend may be blowing in spring or fall or a rainy season or a dry one, but hopefully you’ll enjoy whatever you’re getting.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo was seen and captured on camera by Josh Beck in Panama, the most reliable place to connect with this rare species. I can’t say the same for the other especially tough cuckoo in Costa Rica, the one and only Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo (or RVG as I like to call it).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And Verbena attracts another specialty bird and a regional endemic (from Honduras to Panama), the Snowcap. Around me, White-necked Jacobin bullies were attacking any Crowned Woodnymph , Green Hermit , Violet Sabrewing or Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer that would dare to approach the feeder or the Verbena hedges.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

A bird of lowland and foothill rainforest, the Yellow-throated Toucan can be seen in most parts of the Caribbean slope and from the Carara area south to Panama. The counterpart of the Collared Aracari on the South Pacific slope of Costa Rica, this near endemic also ranges into parts of western Panama.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2020

I hope for more of those birds to appear and ride the wings of that hope for a safe end to this trying situation soon, for a time when we can watch birds together again whether that be Costa Rica, Panama, Spain, or Yunnan, China. The post Hoping for Spring Migrants in Costa Rica, 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The lower end of their territory is along the coastal areas of mainland Mexico down to Panama. The White-collared seedeaters have a relatively limited range, with a northern most range, that has them on a rare occasion, seen in the southern parts of Texas. In this case, I am going with the “Do” part.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. Press, 1989); A Guide to the Birds to the Birds of Panama, with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, 2nd ed. , It’s unique in two major ways.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

This high elevation pewee only occurs in the mountains of Costa Rica and a smidgeon of western Panama. If you see a bird that looks like a richly colored pewee with shorter wings and a burry call, say hello to the Tropical Pewee. Ochraceous Pewee. Yes, a cool endemic pewee!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2022

You have to go birding in must visit hotspots like Cano Negro (we did that last week), the high mountains, and way down near the Panama border. , and maybe a Buff-breasted Sandpiper (also no check).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2017

I have much to celebrate, as my family and I are embarked on a Spring Break sojourn to Panama by way of Canada. And chocolate bunnies. And colorful eggs. And lots and lots of birds. Celebrate your way! Expect my Best Bird of the Weekend to be Neotrop-tastic. How about you?

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Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama. At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala. I recently subscribed to their newsletter which comes out in both Spanish and English versions.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Its yodeling song is a typical aspect of the cloud forest soundscape in Costa Rica and western Panama, a region to which it is endemic. A common resident of cloud forest, this species is often seen in pairs as it forages in mixed flocks or feeds at a fruiting tree. Unlike the Red-headed Barbet, the Prong-billed is quite vocal.

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APRIL 10, 2021

The same goes for Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and other places along their migration routes. Barn Swallows also fly with them and the Chimney Swifts seem to nearly match them in numbers. Yeah, I daresay those birds do pass through Costa Rica in the millions. For birds, there are no borders.

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OCTOBER 12, 2019

Part of a series of coordinated radio telemetry arrays, this station is found between other MOTUS stations in Nicaragua and Panama that automatically log data from radio transmitters attached to Alder Flycatchers, Cerulean Warblers , and other species.

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JANUARY 10, 2015

The montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama are home to at least 50 species of birds that live nowhere else except for one or two that also occur in northwestern Colombia. Nope, in addition to Costa Rica and western Panama, the good old R. At least that’s the case for Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

One of many cool bird species only found in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. One of the South Pacific endemics, watch for this striking wren in rainforest, often near streams. Black-and-Yellow Silky-Flycatcher. This one likes to spend most of its time feeding on berries. Yellow-throated Euphonia.

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APRIL 11, 2013

A typical Neotropical bird – a Royal Flycatcher caught on a scouting trip in Panama. As it turns out, there is a great system in Panama for studying the genetics of color. Two species, White- and Golden-, form a hybrid zone where their ranges meet in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Just look at that thing! candei ), Golden-collared ( M.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Go birding in Costa Rica to get these avian examples of cuteness on the life list: Collared Redstart – cute and common in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Cute is cool, and especially when the bird is a lifer. Yeah, it’s just using you as a beater but you get rewarded with close looks and photos.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

A bird of treeline and paramo habitats in Costa Rica and Panama, this wren is a main target for visiting birders. At its 3,000 meter start, treeline habitats host Sooty Thrushes and other endemic birds of the high places, it is especially good for Timberline Wren.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Based on national numbers, the global population is now estimated to number at least 525 mature individuals; and to account for uncertainty and an additional population in southern Panama, the global population is placed in the band of mere 500-1,000 mature individuals.

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