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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Brazil has the largest number of endemics of South America. And, with you it will be the same, a wonderful combination of fun and birding by coming to Brazil, once it gets safe to travel again. Surely it will be a very wise decision! Here are the reasons: -Brazil is safe to travel. The food is fantastic.

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JULY 20, 2022

The Red-crowned Woodpecker is one of several species that are found throughout northern South America and Tobago but are absent from Trinidad. Nectar may be the main driver for this behaviour, but they will certainly not pass on the opportunity to nab any insects attracted to the feeder. Red-crowned Woodpecker.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2023

For a few, only a few, species actually winter in Central and South America, and summer up here in Mexico. Several Empidonax flycatcher species also leave for the north… But I can’t get too sad about that. And there is some sweetness in these bittersweet months. They are our summer consolation prizes.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2021

He is a renowned bird expert and author, having co-authored A Guide to the Birds of Colombia and authored Birds of Venezuela and Birds of Tropical America: A Watcher’s Introduction to Behavior, Breeding, and Diversity. Currently his tour schedule is filled with trips to different areas of Colombia. My impression?

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Colombia Birds Species Breeding 105

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

It is a common bird of humid, lowland forest in Central and South America where it is usually found in the lower storey. cabanisi group is found in southwest South America and the birds seen in Central America will be from the B.c.cucillivorus group. This is a Golden-crowned Warbler , Basileuterus cucilivorus.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

and Canada, and winter in Mexico, or breed in Mexico, and winter in Central and South America. This species mostly winters in South America, but migrates through all of Mexico, and a small population winters on Mexico’s west coast. (A few breed in Texas’ Big Bend area.)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2015

Growing up in South America, I distinctly recall the arrival of “the swallow with a deeply forked tail”. They fly from extreme northern North America to the southern tip of South America and are seldom seen perched during migration. I later learned about the Barn Swallow’s amazing annual migration.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ridiculously common in its home range of northern South America, no-one had ever seen a Glittering-throated Emerald here before, and I was determined to be among those who laid eyes on it. Then, in late 2019, my world was rocked again by yet another new hummingbird.

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Trinidad Species Birds South America 105

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

Taxa that could end up being split into one species occurring north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and one south of the isthmus. (2). A species that lives in both Costa Rica and South America but might be two separate species. (3). One of the South American songs of Tawny-throated Leaftosser.

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Costa Rica Species Birds South America 102

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to the distribution map , their migration takes them as far south as Argentina, but decidedly less common in central and eastern South America. I’ve seen them many times on Trinidad but they are much rarer on Tobago.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Encountering this stunner, one of the largest passerines in South America, raises a number of questions. Birds Colombia cotinga fruitcrows South America' Like the Red-ruffed Fruitcrow. Of course I got great looks at the Red-ruffed Fruitcrow (as well as the Cauca Guan) right at the lodge.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Page 101, chapter Habitats of the Neotropics, lovely photos of a Cougar and a Resplendent Quetzal , and a bit of a smallish map of biomes of Central and South America. Presuming I am an absolute beginner, who has no clue about habitats of Costa Rica, let me see what the Habitats of the World has to say about those areas.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It was eventually accepted as a separate species after genetic studies also revealed large differences (over 8%) between birds from central Panama to northern South America and birds from western Panama north to Mexico. Check out the proposal and votes for this split at the AOS classification comittee site.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Plus, this cow, which was apparently going to be lunch at the military base atop Montezuma Peak, was one of those lean, long-horned Criollo types so common in Central and South America. Trips Colombia cows danger South America' Big mistake! What’s the most memorable hazard you’ve faced on the birding trail?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

This photo could have been taken in Florida’s Treasure Coast during the winter months or in South America during the same period. In South America, the small resident gull is the Gray Gull , the two species of large gulls are the Kelp and Band-tailed , and the abundant gull is the Franklin Gull. Photo: Alastair Rae.

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APRIL 13, 2022

Wood-Wrens , birds of the family Henicorhina , are very small wrens of Central and South America that like to live very close to the ground, in dense forest underbrush or elfin forests. The only one that occurs in western Mexico, where I live, is the Gray-breasted Wood-Wren.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

Some of those migrants don’t have far to go but the majority of species are winging their way in from Mexico, Central America, and South America. While our winter residents bulk up to head north, they are joined by other species coming from South America.

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Costa Rica Birds Species South America 78

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JULY 4, 2019

Robin Restall is an acclaimed bird artist, whose works include the Helm’s Birds of Northern South America (2006). The majority of these illustrations were originally painted for the Birds of Northern South America (2006). I haven’t birded South America yet.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2020

Another search revealed that South America’s ubiquitous Turdus can live for 25 – 30 years in the wild. If it were the same bird it would be at least 16 (assuming that evidence of breeding behaviour indicates a maturity of at least one season) years old during 2020. So, how long do Rufous-bellied Thrushes live for?

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Two weekends ago I was scheduled to take part in a live birding video, one of twenty birders from across North and South America who were out and about looking for good birds to share with the world through Swarovski Optik Birding’s Facebook page.

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Birds Sparrows South America Species 111

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AUGUST 14, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. The non-breeding distribution is virtually unknown, although they are suspected to winter in northern South America (Howell and Web 1995). Very little is known about this enigmatic species.

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MARCH 15, 2017

It is apparently uncommon across most of its wide range in the shrublands of South America, little noticed and little noted, and sources are pretty thin, as they are for many birds in places like South America. From a three line stub it now has a full article. One mystery was its movements.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Baird’sSandpipers can only be seen here in August and September, as they stop on their way from the Arctic Circle to southern South America; they do not normally visit central Mexico on its way back north.

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MAY 20, 2020

But the highly social Rufous-crowned Warbler , found from Western Mexico all the way down to northern South America, is one Warbler that really knows how to warble. Its insect-like buzz reminds me most of the Grasshopper’s Sparrow’s song. I love to hear its song in our dry canyons.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 25, 2012

National Geographic’s “Digital Nomad”, Andrew Evans, is on a trans-Atlantic journey from South America’s Cape Horn to Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. Andrew is hanging with some adorable baby Antarctic fur seals in South Geogria, and has posted a video of his encounter.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

The authors argue that most major groups, including the sparrows, wood-warblers, blackbirds, and cardinals then diversified in North America and subsequently colonized South America in a series of overwater (before the Isthmus of Panama had formed) or overland dispersal events.

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APRIL 28, 2021

They’ve not wasted any time, having drifted northward from mainland South America only a few weeks ago. A friend of mine has been begging me to come over to document a nesting pair of Plumbeous Kites in her property but life has gotten in the way thus far.

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Birds Breeding Species South America 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

And what does it tell us, other than the obvious “head for South America” or perhaps Indonesia? I discovered this cover-photo map somewhere at the BirdLife International’s website. It illustrates the bird richness per country. It divides countries into categories, where the next category has 200 more species.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

While Michoacán doesn’t offer the spectacular tropical tanagers of Central and South America, those we have are also very colorful. But this one gave me what is perhaps my most charming photo, so far, of this ubiquitous visitor. And then began the parade of tanagers.

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Birds Sparrows Species South America 104

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds in Canada and the western United States, and winters mostly in northern South America. But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. They may even fear you. This one was a typical Greater Pewee.

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MARCH 22, 2016

Baltimore Orioles spend their winters in Florida, Central, and South America, and migrate north to breed in much of the Eastern United States. However, they have suffered habitat loss not only in the United States, but also in Central and South America. Suddenly, we catch a flash of bright orange: a Baltimore Oriole.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

By checking my Facebook feed on a daily basis, I had a broad idea about birds arriving into different countries in Central and South America. I have Facebook friends and belong to multiple bird related Facebook groups throughout South America. Black-throated Blue Warbler. This is by no means an exact science.

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JULY 7, 2021

and Canada and winter in northeastern Mexico, while the sedentary wrens of central Mexico, Central America, and South America are now to be identified as Grass Wrens. The name Sedge Wren is to be used for the migratory wrens that summer in the U.S. Did they show up for us? Why yes, they did!

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JUNE 5, 2021

It seems to really like the Poro tree, an Erythrina species native to northern South America that has become well established in Costa Rica and used by many native and migrant birds. In the Central Valley, this bird might be somewhat seasonal, or, maybe it just wanders from one area of flowering trees to another.

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Costa Rica Species Birds South America 105

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AUGUST 10, 2019

The Painted Lady is thought to be one of the world’s most succesful butterflies with a range covering the globe apart from Antactica and South America. It migrates through successive generations, similar to the Monarch butterfly.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I have just checked the maps, BirdLife says South America only, but the more relevant eBird says this: The entire text and all maps have also been revised. Forget occasional escapees, there is an established feral population successfully breeding in the north of Germany, which was 131 birds strong last year.

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