Russet Antshrike

At the end of the road and into the jungle

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13 – 22 July 2014 The Pan-American Highway starts to deteriorate in the town of Aguafría as you cross from Eastern Panamá Province into Darién Province. From the provincial border east you dodge pot holes, speed bumps and sleeping dogs for another hour or two. These are not just any ordinary pot holes though; some of them consume half the [...]

Just where the heck is El Plastico anyways, and I want to see the car that can get there.

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21-23 May 2014 Ever in pursuit of the rarest of Costa Rica’s birds, we were still looking for the best Caribbean slope sites to bird. With Rara Avis sort of closed (apparently only open to large groups/students) and a bit expensive, but still wanting to bird the area, we did a bit of research and found some great looking eBird records and heard [...]

Braulio Carillo National Park and El Tapir

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7-9 May 2014 The Quebrada Gonzalez station in Braulio Carillo National Park is well known as a birding destination where you can find fantastic primary foothill rainforest at about 500 m elevation. Just about a mile north of Quebrada Gonzalez is the small hummingbird garden of El Tapir, famous as a great place to find the Snowcap. However, El [...]

Arenal, Costa Rica

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12-15 April 2014 For many known birding destinations in Costa Rica, we don’t have great earth-shattering news to share. The destinations are well documented (in Barrett Lawson’s excellent Costa Rican birdfinding guide as well as online) and the expected species are well documented. That said, we can still share our experiences, tag on a few [...]

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 [...]