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Tips for Birding Costa Rica in October, 2017

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There’s always the chance that your trip might coincide with a tropical storm but that doesn’t happen every year and when it does, it’s only for a few days or maybe a week (and also gives you the chance to put your waterproof optics to the test).

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Lisbon’s Lezirias in Winter

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The Lezírias de Vila Franca de Xira (often and erroneously named Ponta de Erva after the most southerly tip) are an extensively farmed area in the north of the estuary. They have many different varieties, and I selflessly tasted/tested a dozen different varieties. Leave the area through the gate again and turn right towards Porto Alto.

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WeBird!

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I may have to buy a smartphone : For more than a year, Berres (and his graduate students, of course) have been testing and improving the fruit of that inspiration: WeBIRD, the Wisconsin Electronic Bird Identification Resource Database. Hat-tip to Rich Guthrie. This is going to be good.

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Back to Forest Park – and a Review of the Opticron Natura BGA

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I was not tremendously optimistic as I returned to Forest Park for a second shot at the Northern Saw-whet Owl that our beloved host Corey had tipped me off to back at the beginning of January. At least I could test them out. But I was determined that the trip not be a total loss.

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Going Far? Opticron MM3 50 ED Travelscope

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A miserable day in Mumbai dawned with wind and rain blowing towards me across Powai Lake (if I am to give the scope a fair test it needs to be able to perform in poor conditions as well as good, clear light). The centre of gravity for the scope is aft of the collar and the eyepiece tips down if not adequately tightened on the tripod.

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

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White-chinned Petrels are tube-nosed birds Adam Riley Unlike all other birds which have nostrils at the base of the bill, the kiwis from New Zealand, have them located at the bill tip. Herbst corpuscles are also found in abundance in the sensitive bill tips of shorebirds like sandpipers.

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Finca Luna Nueva Lodge: Biodynamic, Bird-rich Ecolodge

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Corey and I put the lodge’s birdiness to the test as members of the team covering Finca Luna Nueva for the 2014 Arenal Bird Count. Unbroken corridors connecting Finca Luna Nueva to outstanding habitat like the 50,000 acre Children’s Eternal Rainforest also help attract rare deep forest species like White-fronted Nunbird.