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“The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia”

10,000 Birds

This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. As a rule, I like second editions better. Whatever was omitted or incorrect in the first is fixed in the second.

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Scope? To Bring or Not to Bring on a Birding Trip to Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

All of a sudden, you have a superpower where you can scan and find more birds, where warblers become identifiable, veritable jewels, where you feel transported closer to the bird. It worked for me on several occasions in Thailand, it will also help in Costa Rica. Life is good when you can inspect the plumage of a hummingbird.