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Five Things To Do When It Is Too Cold To Bird

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After all, you don’t want to sink to spending time with family or doing chores, do you? My books overflow my bookshelves, are stacked haphazardly in several strategic locations, and cause my family to resent me. I’ve been doing this with the Dominican Republic recently when a planned family trip fell through.

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The Smallest Trogons in Costa Rica

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Some birds are so familiar, even non-birders can’t help but know what they are, or at least what family they belong to. Go birding for the first time in the Dominican Republic and you might wonder if a Broad-billed Tody is a flycatcher, a really lazy hummingbird, or if some super cute stuffed animal came to life.

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Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club

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The one exception is Punta Cana Resort and Club in the Dominican Republic. Tags: Dominican Republic , Worldwide Birding Adventures • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! This is not a birding lodge. Far from it. We can all play our part by choosing operations that give back.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

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Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and other islands that make up the Greater and Lesser Antilles. With so many book indexes listing species under family name, I am thankful that the decision was made NOT to list all 39 owl species under the heading “Owl.”

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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

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Furthermore, there are six families confined to the Greater Antilles. Within its 400 pages, the Birds of the West Indies covers 712 species, 550 of them regularly occurring and 190 of those endemic to the region, many of them to single islands.