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Trips

Highlights from a Cancelled Pelagic Trip in Costa Rica

November 13, 2021 by Patrick O'Donnell No Comments

A cancelled trip? How could there be highlights? According to the unwritten ancient rules of birding, whether your pelagic trip gets cancelled or not,...

Birding, Trips

The Uncommon Demise of a Wood Thrush in Costa Rica

October 30, 2021 by Patrick O'Donnell 1 Comment

Migrant birds make an incredibly perilous journey, twice per year. How’s that for an understatement of the obvious? The equation seems incredible. On the...

Manzanillo beach

Trips

What I Learned in Costa Rica from October Global Big Day, 2021

October 16, 2021 by Patrick O'Donnell 2 Comments

Another October Big Day has come and gone and thus made its way into the sacred birding archives. Similar to 2020, more than 32,000...

Crested Owl

Trips

Quality Lowland Caribbean Birding in Costa Rica at Centro Manu

October 2, 2021 by Patrick O'Donnell 1 Comment

Birding in the Caribbean is about islands, beautiful beaches, extra special endemics, rum, and smiles. It could also be much more, maybe less, it...

Purple-throated-Mountain-gem-male

Birding

Birding in Place on Poas Volcano- What can You See?

September 18, 2021 by Patrick O'Donnell 1 Comment

Poas Volcano isn’t just a mountain built with magma. In common with so many other volcanoes, Poas also houses farms, people, and forests full...

cabanis ground sparrow

Trips

Grassy Green Space in the Central Valley- Trash Habitat or Prime Real Estate for Oddball Birds?

September 4, 2021 by Patrick O'Donnell No Comments

When looking for birds in Costa Rica, the Central Valley isn’t the first place that comes to mind. Fly in to Juan Santamaria airport...

Trips

Mangrove Birds of Costa Rica

August 21, 2021 by Patrick O'Donnell 2 Comments

Forest doesn’t just grow in mountains, hills, and valleys. Give certain, special trees the right conditions and they also take root in the shallow...

Snowcap

Trips

New Birding Site in Costa Rica: Snowcaps, Raptors and More!

August 7, 2021 by Patrick O'Donnell 2 Comments

Snowcaps are simply surreal. Not the sublime chocolate ones crowned with sugar but the live feathered ones that look like they have been dipped...

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