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Buff-breasted Sandpiper Overload (and Other Fall Birding Highlights in Costa Rica)

10,000 Birds

Yes, that would be Golden-winged Warbler , a species seen more easily during a Costa Rican winter than anywhere during migration up north. It seems like the species can show up one year at certain spots and be absent the next. This is a really tough bird to see in Costa Rica, even during the peak of migration.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Such an obligation would make us the protectors of all species, and the destroyers of every ecosystem on earth. My mind and spirit are continually tested by outrages, from the countless dead innocents in current wars to the limited life prospects of my son’s first-grade classmates with drug dealers for parents.