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Urban Birding in Costa Rica

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Costa Rica is well known for national parks and other protected areas than offer access to tropical ecosystems dripping with biodiversity. Blackbirds. Some members of this family always do well with people and Costa Rica is no exception. Lots of birds, a lot of really cool birds! The Emerald Tanager is one of those cool ones.

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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature

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Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. In some ways his story is familiar to a lot of birders: the outdoors was both recreation and refuge for him, his family imbued him with a love of learning and an appreciation for the earth.

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Endangered and Unknown: Red-billed Curassow

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However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. It was quite late in the morning when we saw a family group consisting of an adult and three nearly fully grown juveniles right on the track about 300 meters away.

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Returning to Old Haunts

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From Florida to Maine and back again I toured urban forests, marshes, estuaries, and more, stopping along the way to visit family and friends. Little seemed to have changed, other than a brand new LEED-certified environmental center that had been built near the terminus of the protected area. A view of low-tide.

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Back from Seattle

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We had a blast, the family and I, and experienced some amazing natural places, to say nothing of the fine city of Seattle. Point Defiance, Protection Island, Hurricane Hill, and Sunrise all felt our footsteps to say nothing of Carkeek Park, Discovery Park, the Space Needle, and Top Pot Doughnuts. Seattleites are nice. Scary nice.

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Birds on Posts or Birding North Dakota

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Brewer’s Blackbirds often joined the hordes of Red-winged Blackbirds flitting in and out of the taller grasses and few shrubs. Over 80 percent of North Dakota’s prairie has vanished, but there are still millions of acres in North Dakota, under both government protection and private ownership. back to the birds.

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

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The beech forests were dense, landscapes stunning, only that wind… Birds were hiding from it, too, with mostly t**s ( Coal , Long-tailed and Great ), a few thrushes ( Mistle , Song and Eurasian Blackbird ) and numerous Common Chaffinches showing. A short stop at the wind swept ridge and a hasty retreat to a lower elevation pine forest.

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