10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

While in Belize back in August one of the outings we signed up for was a boat ride along the Sittee River, a mangrove-lined and placid river that flows into the Caribbean just south of Hopkins. We met our guide in the late afternoon and took the short golf cart ride to the marina where he dropped us off on a dock and went to get the boat. (He’s

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Belize Tigers Butcher Birds 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Corey is back from Belize and planning to return to the comforting embrace of Jamaica Bay NWR. My daughter just got a sweet new pair of Wingspan Optics ProBirder Ultra HD 8X32 Compact Binoculars that we need to break in (but not break) this weekend. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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Belize Jamaica 2017 Birds 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2017

Because Corey and his family just journeyed to Belize for some serious Neotropical bird looking! Don’t you love that? I’ll be hanging around Rochester this weekend, too paralyzed with envy to get any decent birding done. Why so jealous? How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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Belize 2017 Birds Family 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2022

In checking eBird images of possible Pacific and American Golden-Plovers, I found several possible records for Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Belize from the months of November to April. Might a few occur appear in Costa Rica during migration?

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Costa Rica Fish Belize Nicaragua 241

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

If you are not familiar with the story, it’s about an Anglo-Irish mercenary, Jamie Shannon (played by Christopher Walken), hired to overthrow the regime in a fictional Western African country (it was actually filmed in Belize, Central America) and prior to the real thing, he was doing a reconnaissance trip posing as a “rare birds photographer”.

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Belize Africa Birds Serbia 234

10,000 Birds

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 and Birds of Belize by H. It’s unique in two major ways. Lee Jones and Dana Gardner was published by Univ. CONCLUSION. by Andrew C.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2014

Or maybe you’re visiting Belize, Guatemala, Paraguay, or the Bahamas? Eurasian Blackbirds living in cities have learned to keep their cool, compared with rural birds. Planning on birding Kenya? Then you’ll want to check out this new book. Then you might benefit from a new program training birding guides.

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San Jose Parrots Kenya Paraguay 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2021

Keel-billed Toucan also occurs but since that rainbow beaked species is the national bird of Belize, it would make a better ambassador for that likewise birdy country. Yellow-throated Toucan. This or maybe Northern Emerald Toucanet would make good ambassadors. Toucans are as bold as they look. Watch out for the beak! Emerald Tanager.

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Costa Rica Belize Guatemala Protesting 231

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

And the results are indicative, representative and nothing short of surprising: Brunei, The Gambia, Belize, Jamaica, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea and Panama top the list.

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Central African Republic Guyana 193

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2017

I’ve been back from Belize for several days now and have fully recovered from the chiggers, the sunburn, the sand flies, the rum, and the exhaustion of international travel. (I I know, I know, poor me, right?)

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Belize Woodpeckers Family Species 101

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JUNE 4, 2018

But my experiences in Belize and Honduras give me a good basis in the birds of the region and I have plenty of time to study and learn what to expect with the endemics. Having never birded in Mexico at all I was initially concerned about identifying the myriad species that can be seen.

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Belize Mexico Honduras Science 105

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

She also had amazing stories of birding in Belize and Costa Rica, and we swapped favorite birding tales during the 2.5 Originally from New Jersey, she has lived in South Carolina for over a decade, and was a great help identifying the shorebirds we found. hours of walking.

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South Carolina Turtles Costa Rica Belize 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

” Though I have seen stilts in Aruba and Belize, I had yet to add them to my American list, making me extra happy to see them. In fact, I wish these birds had been named “Pink-legged Stilts.”

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Jacksonville Research Belize Pelicans 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

Whatever the reason may be, we do know that Las Brisas provides a lot of food and shelter for Cerulean Warblers as they migrate south.

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Costa Rica Species Belize New Jersey 179

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Diving has taken me to places like Belize, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Egypt, places that coincidentally are fun to bird. For some it allows you to boast about the amazing locations, and for some it simply scratches that itch to invest heavily in gear. Kina, or Sea Urchin. I was a diver before I was a birder.

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New Zealand Goats Vanuatu Fiji 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The Poor Knights were internationally famous and often turned up in those inevitable lists of “top places to dive&# along with Cocos Island, Sipadan, the Great Barrier Reef, Truk Lagoon, Bikini Atoll and the Blue Hole in Belize.

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New Zealand Belize Vanuatu Fiji 180

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MARCH 23, 2011

This is a photo that my friend Larry Sirvio took in Belize. They are species that breed in the US and then spend the winter in Central and South America, eating what’s avialable–especially fruit. Check that out, it’s a Wood Thrush coming to a papaya feeder.

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Nigeria Belize Birds Panama 246

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Its common name, however, is a bit of a misnomer, unless “Northern” refers to the landmass north of the equator; this species extends from some southern Canadian provinces through the entirety of the eastern United States into Mexico and down to Guatemala and Belize.

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St. Louis United States Belize Guatemala 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Once you get back to Belize, you can be yourselves. It makes people feel like they have to choose sides, and who wants to choose sides between the noble bald eagle and the majestic great horned owl or whatever? It’s just for the summer. Of course, this is fiction. I didn’t actually pick up any ticks this spring!

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

In Belize I cruised above reefs few people had ever seen. In Hawaii I stood on a beach as albatrosses fledged and Tiger Sharks prowled for the less successful ones. In the Bahamas I swam in a pod of feeding dolphins. In California I smelt the breath a Blue Whale as it passed feet beneath my boat.

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Uganda Sharks Africa New Zealand 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2016

But then we remember that special birding moment when we saw a wood-warbler freezing it out with the rest of us (and thus sacrificing itself for the count) when it should be chasing bugs in Belize. We recall those counts when the magic wonder of a blizzard of gulls erased the numb feelings in our toes and stopped the chattering of our teeth.

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Costa Rica 2016 Belize Eagles 235

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AUGUST 19, 2012

Then again, at 1 in the morning, who cares where Xunantunich in Belize is located. In a sense, the process brought back lots of great memories as I scoured Google Maps to locate places I visited over the last decade.

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Arizona Belize Adoptable ALA 174

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

First Corey gets his life Jabiru in Belize, then I see my lifer in the Pantanal. They are members of the Parulidae family and Horneros are members of the Furnariidae family, a nice example of parallel evolution. Favorite Big Bird: This must be the year of the Jabiru for 10,000 Birds. And, of course, Pat sees Jabiru every year in Costa Rica.

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Brazil Los Angeles Birds Tigers 147

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JULY 4, 2017

The accounts vary in length from two to six pages, and are well illustrated with photographic images by Ryan Phillips of the Belize Raptor Research Institute and a group of 40 photographers from the United States and Central America.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

We talk about Gulls Simplified, Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, The Feather Thief, and some books I have not had a chance to review yet, like Daniel Lewis’s Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai‘i and Birds of Nicaragua: A Field Guide.

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North America El Salvador America Nicaragua 198

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Super Hot-spot: Toledo District, Belize – Central Flyway. Super Hot-spot: Toledo District, Belize – Central Flyway. Fall count to date: 3,895. Super Hot-spot: Little Crawl Key, FL – Atlantic Flyway. Fall count to date: 1,402. Crested Caracara. Photo by © Michael Todd. Fall count to date: unknown. Peregrine Falcon. Swallow-tailed Kite.

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Belize Mississippi Bald Eagle Mexico 212

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

It is the only species in the genus Dumetella and most likely the only catbird most birders will ever see; the Black Catbird Melanoptila glabrirostris , also of a monotypic genus, is found only in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, and is the only other species of catbird in the New World.

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Papua New Guinea Ethiopia Guinea Belize 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2013

I once visited Crooked Tree in Belize for a few days without hitting any of the great spots because I didn’t really know what I was doing. On my last visit, which lastes four days, I didn’t have much time to sneak away from family, but I did get to check out two new sites. This often happens to me, because I’m rather vague.

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Albatross Rats Belize New Zealand 151

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2012

And the Keel-billed Toucan , the national bird of Belize, is nothing if not easily recognizable. Even after independence the British kept a substantial number of soldiers in Belize because Guatemala, Belize’s neighbor to the west and south, refused to recognize Belize and claimed its territory as its own until 1992.

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Belize United Kingdom Honduras Guatemala 167

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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Antigua and Barbuda El Salvador America Costa Rica 114

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2018

And the results are indicative, representative and nothing short of surprising: Brunei, The Gambia, Belize, Jamaica, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea, Panama and Haiti top the list. And now you finally know where to travel next.

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Rwanda Equatorial Guinea El Salvador Costa Rica 211

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

After a brief look at a map, my rough guesstimate is that the territory from Guatemala and Belize south to the Darien gap is roughly equal to New England, or Florida and the eastern parts of Georgia and the Carolinas north to the Virginia line. Central America is much smaller than the land encompassed within the borders of Canada and the USA.

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Costa Rica Guatemala Nicaragua Birds 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2023

FIELD GUIDES : We were blessed with a Central American double-header this spring with the publication of Birds of Belize and Birds of Costa Rica , both by Steve N.G. There are plenty more book reviews, as well, on the 10000 Birds blogsite.) Howell and Dale Dyer.

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North America Birds Europe Costa Rica 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

9 beats, birded 9 countries this month; Belize , Guatamala , Costa Rica, UK, Iran, USA, Greece, Australia and Mexico. They submitted 144 checklists, noting 628 species adding 72 to the year’s running total bringing it to 1890. This month dealt a humiliating blow to us easterners as we went down 537 to 105.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100