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Out Birding to Help an Endemic Sparrow in Costa Rica

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Today, along with teams in a few other parts of Costa Rica and elsewhere, I will be birding for a cause, watching birds to help one that only lives in Costa Rica, the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. Around the size of a Song Sparrow or Chaffinch , maybe a bit bigger, this mini towhee forages near the ground in dense scrubby vegetation.

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Bird News Roundup: Birds of a feather … well, you know the rest

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After all, it’s not like I’m going to see anything other than the White-throated Sparrows and Northern Cardinals flitting about the brush pile outside my window. And just because we all need a good giggle now and then (me, especially, these days), and who better to provide it than the folks at Sesame Workshop, this happened.

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The Warbler Guide Song and Call Companion: A Review and a Little More

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Having spent too much time in the field trying to figure out if I’m hearing a Pine Warbler or a Chipping Sparrow, I’ve been focusing on my trills skills. The Warbler Guide Song and Call Companion is a highly recommended purchase for birders and naturalists who have bought or intend to buy The Warbler Guide.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru.

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Birding Kabul, Afghanistan

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We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women. I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds).

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Hidden Birds and the Birders Who Find Them

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Once the digiscoping workshop had moved on to Cammann’s Pond Park, where we had a good time digiscoping some cooperative waterfowl, herons, and kingfishers, I received a call from Tom letting me know that he and Gail Benson, another amazing New York birder, had found some Vesper Sparrows at the Theodore Roosevelt Nature Center.

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Where to Find Me at the 2015 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival

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First, from 8 AM until noon will be the “Shorebird Workshop for Advanced Birders” which will be led by Kevin Karlson, a co-author of The Shorebird Guide. Join me at Viera and we should see something as cool… On Friday, 23 January, I’ll be co-leading two trips.

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