Cattle Eagles Falcons 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
A vast congregation of Bald Eagles kept watch over a herd of cattle about to calve, up to seven in a single tree — no doubt awaiting delicious placentas. A second Prairie Falcon just up the road – this one a young male – gave even better, closer looks. Birding Mission valley Prairie falcon raptors'
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2019
The raptors exceeded expectations in both quantity and quality, with lots of vultures, eagles, and a magnificent Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle. Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle … wow!!
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Not that long ago, Costa Rica had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, rainforests were razed to make way for hot and chiggery cattle pasture, and bot flies probably became more numerous than some bird populations. Hope for a vagrant comes in the form of an Orange-breasted Falcon sighting from west-central Panama.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2023
Booted Eagle by Kostas Papadopoulos The next morning was a lazy one, a late breakfast and even later excursion. Later in the day, roadside birds included a Booted Eagle and a Levant Sparrowhawk. We also observed nests of Pygmy Cormorants , Dalmatian Pelicans , Little Egrets , Cattle Egret (with a chick), Squacco Heron , and Spoonbills.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2018
Red-footed Falcons , Whiskered and Black Terns by mid-April, White-winged Terns are passing about a week later. In the last ten years, Cattle Egrets have bred again, on and off, but for the first time since 1870s. Imperial and Booted are the rarest eagles in the country, the first with only one heavily guarded pair left.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2024
A Merlin had just attempted to grab breakfast before our very eyes… She missed and while we were happy for the sandpipers – they are very pretty – the excitement we felt was for the falcon. The entertainment consisted of a group of 8 Grasshopper Sparrows and Cattle Egret attending to a small herd of – wait for it – cattle.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2017
In keeping with high diversity in other aspects of the avian kingdom, including falcons and excluding owls, this small country has a raptor list that tops fifty species. A few, like the Ornate Hawk-Eagle , are probably out-competing other species and thus on the increase but the numbers for most seem to be going down. Black Hawk-Eagle.
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