10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2015
The authors argue that most major groups, including the sparrows, wood-warblers, blackbirds, and cardinals then diversified in North America and subsequently colonized South America in a series of overwater (before the Isthmus of Panama had formed) or overland dispersal events.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
We have several quail-dove species in Costa Rica, this one is only found in cloud forest here and in western Panama. This sprite made it onto the list because its the smallest bird in Costa Rica and is maybe easier here than in western Panama. In some spots, this amazing bird even visits feeders. Buff-fronted Quail-Dove. Volcano Junco.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2018
A couple of the biggest of bird families are restricted to the Americas. Just about anywhere a birder ventures, the miniscule members of the latter family can be seen, and in most tropical locales, it’s not just one species. It only lives in middle elevation habitats of southern Costa Rica and western Panama.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2014
The Woodpeckers are one of the more popular of the avian families. Looking like a Northern Three-toed that took a permanent tropical vacation, this woodpecker is a stunner that only lives in the rainforests of southern Costa Rica and just across the border in Panama. In Costa Rica, family groups laugh it up in highland oak forests.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
This Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo was seen and captured on camera by Josh Beck in Panama, the most reliable place to connect with this rare species. It was a ground-cuckoo family and they weren’t even shy! Fabio got the word out and since then, at least 70 local birders (and likely more) have gone to see them, all with success.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
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. These introductory texts become more specific when there are multiple spreads for large bird families, like ‘Gulls Laridae.’ by Robert S.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2019
The two families of New World barbets, the Capitonidae and the Semnornithidae, are actually more related to toucans. The Prong-billed Barbet is in the Semnornithidae, a family shared with the Toucan Barbet of western Colombia and Ecuador. The female Red-headed Barbet is beautiful in her own subtle way. .
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