2024 eBird Taxonomic Updates for Costa Rica
It's that time of year again! Actually, it isn't yet. eBird's annual taxonomic updates are scheduled to go live in October 2024. However, given the complexities of the changes the plans a...
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Hummingbird 47
How many hummingbird species are in Costa Rica? The short answer is around 52. The longer answer involves rare vagrants, a species not seen since before the atom bomb, and "the greatest...
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The LEAST Photographed (Endemic) Birds of Costa Rica
One aspect of bird photography that I love is the fact that my observations are useful. Tools like eBird mean that every time I upload a checklist or media item I'm contributing to a corpus o...
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Costa Rica Doesn't Have Seagulls
For a country that has coastlines on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans the title of this post might be surprising. Costa Rica isn't an outlier though, no country has seagulls! Well, I'm...
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Owls on Irazú Volcano (at 2 am)
As someone who suffers from frequent insomnia, I often wonder why I chose a hobby that requires waking up so early in the morning. While going out at 4 or 4:30 am in search of owls is a...
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A Scouting Expedition to Boca Tapada
August 2022 - I was grateful for the wood board that I was sitting upon when I suddenly found myself almost knee-deep in the mud along a stream bank. Well, I didn't so much "sit" as fall...
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A World on the Wing - Birding Book Review
A World on the Wing is a fantastic collection of statistics and anecdotes that mesh into a captivating globetrotting adventure. "The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds"--the book's subtitle--i...
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Endemic Hummingbirds of Costa Rica's Highlands
https://youtu.be/xRee9K_80oY Video Transcript: The highlands of Costa Rica are home to some really beautiful and unique hummingbirds! Costa Rica has 52 species of hummingbirds and ma...
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