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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Birds of Belize by Steve N. The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Why are these issues?

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Black-necked Stilts at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve

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For day 2 of the conference, we headed out to the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve to look at some in-progress projects. ” 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.

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How to Help Cerulean Warblers, Other Migrant Species, and Resident Birds in Costa Rica

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With that in mind, Ernesto and fellow researchers are working on figuring out which plant species might be most important for Ceruleans and other migrants so areas in and near Las Brisas can be more efficiently recuperated and restored. — Feature image of Cerulean Warbler and researchers at Las Brisas Reserve by Paz Irola.

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The Agony and Ecstasy of Surrendering to eBird

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A contemptuous lack of suggested locations to match the ones submitted forced me to research literally hundreds of locations in the U.S Then again, at 1 in the morning, who cares where Xunantunich in Belize is located. Importing locations is even more ridiculous.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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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. The Bibliography lists 677 articles and books, mostly articles, from ornithological literature, a record of the research that went into this volume.

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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review

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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. The Species Accounts are the research-at-home section. Its organization can be challenging.

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Dawn in South Carolina

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At dawn, my feet hit one of the protected beaches with Wendy Allen, the manager of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the science and outreach organizations working within Hobcaw. She also had amazing stories of birding in Belize and Costa Rica, and we swapped favorite birding tales during the 2.5