10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

Costa Rica is well known for national parks and other protected areas than offer access to tropical ecosystems dripping with biodiversity. However, as with many other places throughout the globe, this small country also has its fair share of urban wildlife. Have flowers in Costa Rica? Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl.

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Costa Rica Parrots Birds Blackbirds 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

If a list also shows the status for each species, birders on their way to Costa Rica would realize that they shouldn’t really expect vireos with white eyes nor blue heads (but would hopefully know that they should very much report those species on eBird so local birders can chase them!). Spot-bellied Bobwhite bites the dust.

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Costa Rica Owls South America Panama 192

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

By our good chance, Mary and I began our year of birding in Costa Rica at a place that combined both of these factors, a place with the promising name of “Raptor Ridge” Located in the hills of the southern Nicoya Peninsula , Raptor Ridge is the home of Larry Landstrom, Ruth Rodriguez, and their daughter Elizabeth.

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Costa Rica Philadelphia Falcons Owls 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

” During migration, I also see Eastern Wood-Pewees in Costa Rica. Living in Costa Rica, June is just as warm as the rest of the year. June in Costa Rica is the half-way point; when I figure out what I need to do, where I need to go to attain birding goals for the rest of the year.

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Costa Rica Species Birds New York 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Yes, I had local bird books, but only during my second tour of Costa Rica did I finally buy a mammal guide, and only after my trip to Colombian Amazon did I obtain a habitat guide. Presuming I am an absolute beginner, who has no clue about habitats of Costa Rica, let me see what the Habitats of the World has to say about those areas.

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Costa Rica Cougars Madagascar Mammals 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Costa Rica is known for its quetzales, many hummingbirds, beautiful tanagers, and a host of other tropical birdies not found back at the home patch. That’s of course why most birders visit Costa Rica and rightly so. We might not have wildlife refuges but we do have the Cocorocas salt ponds!

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Costa Rica Ducks Morals Species 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2021

It was a fun month with posts from places as varied as Greece and Uganda, Costa Rica and India. Costa Rica. Babita Wildlife Tours. Wildlife Explorers. We did this to help our favorite industry come back, to some small degree, from the ravages of COVID. There’s something for everybody! Macaw Lodge.

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Costa Rica Uganda Greece Ghana 262

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2024

His interest soon grew to include other species of birds developing a love for wildlife and especially bird photography. I crossed the border into Costa Rica, spending days high up in the San Gerardo de Dota mountains. He started putting up homemade feeders to attract the hummingbirds.

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Trinidad Costa Rica Panama Whales 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2017

You may have birding from the window of your home, you may have been counting birds at a local wildlife refuge, you may have been counting birds on a feverish run from one end of a state to the next. In Costa Rica, we did our part and were elated to finish with more than 640 species.

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Costa Rica 2017 Owls West Virginia 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Costa Rica enjoys an international reputation as an iconic birding location, bursting with epic Neotropical species and breathtaking natural attractions. Understandably, certain lodges have, over the years, come to be associated with the Costa Rican birding circuit.

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Costa Rica San Jose Sanctuary Protection 167

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Arenal Observatory Lodge & Spa in La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica has a rich history as a birding-friendly eco-lodge. This also makes the Arenal Observatory Lodge an ideal location for wildlife observation in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Reptiles Mammals Research 151

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

These are the neighborhood raptors that make do, even thrive, by preying on the wildlife of an urban landscape. In Costa Rica, the urban raptor can take more than one form but usually, the local avian top predator is a Gray Hawk.

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Costa Rica Mice Arizona Squirrels 276

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2019

Costa Rica Totals: 351. John O’Groats Ferry Boat Wildlife Tours – Scotland. Jonnie at the Spurn National Wildlife Refuge, England – accommodations.spurnbirdsobs@hotmail.com. Susana Blanco Susana.cotinga@gmail.com Birding BNB coordinator in Costa Rica. New Zealand Total: 104. Australia Total: 242.

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Costa Rica Tucson South Africa Bahamas 126

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to Honduras in 2014, I was advised to use The Birds of Costa Rica by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean (2014) and The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve N.G. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries. Howell and Sophie Webb (a classic, but big and published in 1995).

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 225

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

First of all, there are the classics, cited in the Introduction as important resources and models for the authors: A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica by Gary Stiles and Alexander F. Press, 1989); A Guide to the Birds to the Birds of Panama, with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, 2nd ed. , Skutch (Cornell Univ.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 209

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. The northwestern part of Costa Rica is the least birdy part of the country. Number 6 – Lesser Ground-Cuckoo.

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2019 Barbados Uganda Costa Rica 136

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A native of southern Florida, Carlos has had a fascination with wildlife as far back as he can remember combined with an unquenchable thirst to learn — the first books he checked out of the library were Beehler’s Birds of New Guinea and Stiles and Skutch’s Birds of Costa Rica. His posts will appear every other Thursday morning.

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Florida Puerto Rico Costa Rica Ecuador 158

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

I am thinking of a relatively stable/prosperous bird-paradise where one may be able to find a job in ecotourism or wildlife research… or, to begin with, as a resident environmental scientist / nature blogger in some wildlife lodge? Costa Rica (857 / 903). India (1180 / 1171). Sri Lanka (375 / 436). The Afrotropics.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 256

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 The ecosystem is still affected by human-induced climate change and associated sea level rise and erosion, but remains a haven for a variety of wildlife in addition to birds. hours of walking.

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South Carolina Turtles Costa Rica Belize 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

An accomplished popular science writer, Ackerman started out as a writer and researcher for National Geographic ‘s book division and has since written articles and books on such diverse scientific subjects as heredity, the common cold, dragonflies, and wildlife in Japan.

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Science Birds Costa Rica Research 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2013

Barbed wire fences are terrible for wildlife, snaring large birds and mammals alike…but for smaller passerines, they sure make good perches. National Wildlife Refuges, various wetland sites) you are supposed to bird from your car to prevent the needless flushing of birds. In many places (i.e. Why limit ourselves to the U.S.?

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LACS North Dakota Costa Rica Idaho 134

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

That’s why Costa Rica is at the top of every single birder’s list of desperately desired destinations. Lucky Patrick O’Donnell lives in Costa Rica and, as a guide , gets to enjoy the epic avifauna of that exquisite country. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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Costa Rica 2011 Deer Birds 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

If you’ve birded the Neoptropics, then you’re familiar with the haunting sound of Great Tinamou, and may have even seen the bird, as I did in Costa Rica, walking through thick rain forest foliage. Like the Great Tinamou , Tinamus major. It’s there in the shadows and then it’s gone.

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Honduras Birds Costa Rica South Africa 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Submit a link and summary to your best recent post about birding or wild birds to me or our next outstanding host, Pat O’Donnell at Costa Rica Living and Birding. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. …and we really need hosts. The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Deer Costa Rica Denmark 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Patrick ODonnell Mar 2nd, 2011 at 10:45 pm Plenty of “manky&# Muscovies down here in Costa Rica! Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Joe Kelly Mar 2nd, 2011 at 2:10 pm I think I’ve seen these beauties on the Peconic River near Riverhead, NY.

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Ducks 2011 Deer Costa Rica 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

In wildlife refuges and reserves in many parts of the world, all you need is a scope, time, and the right overlook and you can walk away with easy, prolonged studies of ducks, herons, waders, grebes, and lots of other marsh birdies. This area is the only place where this species can be seen in Costa Rica. See the birds?

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Costa Rica Pelicans Nicaragua Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

On a totally ordinary Toledo afternoon when I was visiting my favorite Metropark, there he was: a spectacular indigo minding his own business at one of the wildlife center’s birdfeeders. 2012 was one of my best years for birding in Costa Rica. My best bird of the year was my (and my wife’s) very first Scarlet Tanager.

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2012 Ghana Ireland Costa Rica 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Corey encountered a bunch of winners, but 24 Common Redpolls at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, in almost the exact same spot he saw them a couple of years ago, feeding on birch inflorescence by the East Pond, were easily his best birds of the weekend. However, I’ll bestow that honor upon my first local Common Grackles of spring.

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2011 New York Deer Philadelphia 153

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. My first tropical birding trip was to Costa Rica when I was 8 and the Jabiru was at the top of my list even then, but sadly none were encountered.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Penguins 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Penguins New York 138

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

My fiance and I drove nearly two hours to the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in rural Indiana to watch them come in for the evening. Since that trip, I’ve seen Rose-throated Becard in Costa Rica, but not with the rosy throat. And, seeing a bird in Costa Rica is not the same as seeing it in the U.S.

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2013 Costa Rica Birds India 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

I will be birding the foothill rainforests of Quebrada Gonzalez, Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica. Jochen the swallows have arrived at NYC at Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge too. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. How cool’s that!?

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2011 Deer South Dakota Costa Rica 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2015

Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m Once again attending the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Costa Rica!

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2014 Costa Rica New Jersey New York 231

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

So I lowered my threshold to 500 and that worked well… for Costa Rica and South America, that is (especially Peru). Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard. Other wildlife includes Phayre’s Leaf Monkey. In early November 2020, there were 15 countries with more than 1000 species eBirded so far.

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Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 259

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

In the last few years, birders in Costa Rica started noticing strange mango species in the Golfito/Puntarenas region of the country. The strange birds were identified as Veraguan Mangos and they have now officially been added to the Costa Rican national bird list. have found their way to Costa Rica.

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Panama Costa Rica 2011 Cleveland 194

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Patrick had many birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Year but he chose a new species for him in Costa Rica, a real regional rarity: My BBOTY for 2014 goes to Hudsonian Godwit. I was a bit sad, too, that we had annoyed the owl enough that it felt it had to strafe us … my normal MO is to avoid stressing out wildlife.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Penguins 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Our two newest contributors have shared from Mexico and China, bringing the countries birded this month (also including; Costa Rica, Greece, Serbia, USA, UK, India, UAE and New Zealand) to 10. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 117