Nicaragua

Cerro Musun and the Wing-banded Antbird

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1 April 2014 This is the day we dubbed the wing-banded goose chase. The name was coined long before the day was over and long before we’d found the bird we were looking for, but before we’d gotten too tired and defeated to joke about it. The Wing-banded Antbird has a disparate distribution, being known from a few locales in Nicaragua, a few in [...]

Nicaragua – Granada, Lago de Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Grackle, and San Jose del Sur

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3 – 5 April 2014 After our adventures on Cerra Musún, we headed to Granada to enjoy the city for a few days. Granada is one of Nicaragua’s gems, with many historic buildings dating from Spanish Colonial times. Though quite a warm climate (about 95-100F / 35-38C daily), it is a pleasant city to wander around and soak up the architecture as [...]

Reserva El Jaguar – Nicaragua

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28 – 30 March 2014 The border crossing into Nicaragua at Los Manos was a bit hectic, but we made it through the border in just under 2 hours and made it to Estelí before dark. We decided to stay at a hostel that night so we could use the internet to make plans for the rest of our time in Nicaragua. We stayed at a popular backpackers hostel [...]