On our first morning at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge, Mike and I were making our way to the tower in the pre-dawn light to...
Eddy Rabbitt sang about loving a rainy night but in Costa Rica, hummingbirds love a rainy day. They sing the praises of rain loud...
Few if any species are as emblematic of the Neotropics as Ramphastidae, the family that includes the toucans, toucanets, and aracaris. Even non-birders can...
Sunny days sound like oh so pleasant weather but they just don’t jive with birding in the tropics. Walk out there beneath the blazing...
The survivalist birder scoffs at feeders. I recently became aware of this after an erstwhile interview with one of those wild, bearded purists while...
Doves tend to get a bad rap when it comes to birding. A lot of those anti-Columbidae tendencies probably stem from a certain species...
Costa Rica is one of those places that people visit to “see the rainforest”. Although there’s no such thing as “the one and only rainforest”,...
Complain on a birding trip to Costa Rica? What?! Not possible! Yes, and as much as I love taking in all of that biodiversity,...
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