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Cloud forest birding in Costa Rica (Cerro de la Muerte, Providencia, Mirador de Quetzales)

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7 – 11 April 2014 Our first stop in Costa Rica was the Talamanca Range south of San Jose for a little cloud forest birding with a good friend. We set up a base camp at Mirador de Quetzales at Km 70 along Hwy 2. Mirador de Quetzales and Paraíso del Quetzal are a well-known birding destinations and are great places to find cloud forest and [...]

Guatemala – a Little bit of everything – Fuentes Georginas, Los Tarrales, Finca el Pilar, and Cayalá

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8 – 16 March 2014 A little bird (named John Cahill) told us that he had heard several Maroon-chested Ground-doves at Fuentes Georginas, and that there was a lot of seeding bamboo there, so we pretty much had to go check it out. In 8 months on the road we had thus far found essentially zero seeding bamboo, which is where rare, elusive, nomadic [...]

Volcán Tacaná

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7-8 December 2013 After birding around the Pacific slope of Chiapas we headed up to the highlands to try our luck with a few more cloud forest birds at Volcán Tacaná. As we headed toward Tapachula we were met many times by men who ran out to stop us on the highway while quickly pulling out their “immigration” badge asking to see our papers [...]