In my never-ending quest to expand my year list, Monday the 24th took me to the area of La Escalera/El Palmar/Arúmbaro. This is my...
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No one can accuse me of being a twitcher but when I checked my email Sunday morning and found that the local list serve...
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We watch birds for a number of reasons, but no matter how much a birder may enjoy staring at the primary extensions of small...
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About half way between Brazil’s Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, lies a mountain valley containing the Itatiaia National Park. The endemic-rich Mata Atlantica,...
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Roughly 10 percent of the world’s birds — about a thousand species — are songbirds belong to a group called “nine-primaried oscines,” so named...
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Colombia is not only home to nearly 20% of all avian life on the planet but this birding mecca also accommodates an incredibly high...
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Sometimes a species just stops you in your tracks. So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, male Scarlet Tanager today at Jamaica Bay. Now...
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The word “tanager” conjures certain images for most of us birder types. Maybe words like “colorful,” “beautiful,” “fruit,” and “tree.” But the tanager brand...
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