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Cold, Wind, and Quetzals

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The birds also feel it and they tend to take shelter but the high mountain species are also used to it, they still call, they still come out to play, even quetzals! First, a male with its classic iridescent feathered train, then another, and then a female! How many quetzals were there?!

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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What do you think: would you have developed faster and developed better skills or habits if someone older would have encouraged you and provided training and resources at a very early impressionable age? The next spring she reported that her first class was doing very well and were able to rapidly identify nearly 200 species.

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The great green Caribbean lowlands – Costa Rica

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Sergio and I continue to a sloth shelter, where, waiting for the tour, I sit in a café. But why would someone look for that, an easy and common one among the 920+ bird species of Costa Rica? Watching my first Brown Pelicans , I am inhaling deeply and commenting to Sergio Arias how strong the scent is. million acres).

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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The simple answer is monetary gain, there is a global black market for these items, regardless of the species’ vulnerability for extinction. Hammer paints a fine journalistic picture of how falcons are bred, trained, and interbred for speed. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.

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Remotest Endemic Birds

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How difficult is the place to reach in terms of planes, trains and automobiles? Does the word define a species within country terms, regional terms etc? Does the word define a species within country terms, regional terms etc? Is the term defined at the sub-species or full species level in terms of classification?

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. It is simply not feasible to safely live-trap thousands of animals and conveniently move them to some rescue shelter…the time and money do not exist, and you will never remove every individual without accidentally killing some.