San Jose Sparrows Species 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2014
Despite more than 50 kite, hawk, eagle, and falcon species on the list, nope, we don’t see raptors all that often! That’s because most are forest-based species and are naturally rare. I didn’t even include owls in the 50 plus list species of raptors. San Jose Traffic : Ouch! Fogged optics! :
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2017
With its 920 species, Costa Rica has 2.6 The disadvantage of the situation is obvious, but the advantage is less obvious: beside a few egrets and shorebirds, a sparrow and a pigeon, every bird is a lifer to me! Consequently, insect repellent was used only when the need arose and not every day. …to to great birding.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2018
Migrant species are around, rarities are waiting to be found (such as, believe it or not, Lincoln’s Sparrow ), and, most of all, we have Christmas Counts to attend to. There’s usually one or more common euphonia species at any given site in Costa Rica but they seemed to be especially diverse at Cangreja.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
I sample birding on Poas more often than at other sites in Costa Rica because it’s close to home and makes for a worthwhile guided day trip from the San Jose area. Recently, while guiding on the slopes of Poas, without too much effort, we had more than a hundred species. Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
San Francisco averages two-tenths of an inch for the month, while San Jose only averages half that much. I had set aside the morning of Sunday, June 10th to cross the San Francisco Peninsula to the Pacific Ocean town of Half Moon Bay, a mere 25 minute drive away, for a few hours of birding. The Song Sparrows were wet.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2016
The country of Mexico as a whole, is host to 27 different species of doves, with the California Baja Sure home to six. With a large number of sub-species in many of these doves, I have listed the actual sub-species for this area. A common migratory species, is the Mourning Dove , Zenaida macroura marginella.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
For example, we might just enjoy the calls and antics of those White-throated Sparrows while searching for a Harris’s. Most of all, I love showing people birds, species both common and mysteriously evasive. Whether a birder is eager for eyefulls of common species or needs to test the birding Zen and.
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