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Costa Rica’s Rare Birds at Risk as Human Activity Threatens Extinction

Costa Rica’s bare-necked umbrellabird, a striking black bird with a red throat pouch and crest, is in trouble. A new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution warns it’s among 500 bird species worldwide ...
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Rare Flesh-Footed Shearwater Found for the First Time in Costa Rica

In an exciting scientific breakthrough, a team of researchers from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) recorded the presence of the Flesh-footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes), a species of oceanic ...

A Wilder Way to Spend 9 Days in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is famous for its wild beauty—rainforests alive with birdsong, rivers threaded through wetlands, and volcanoes rising from fertile valleys. This 9-day itinerary from Exodus Adventure ...
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Farms with natural landscape features provide sanctuary for some Costa Rica rainforest birds

Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.
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Audubon Society Talk Explores Magical Birds of Costa Rica

The Santa Barbara Audubon Society will present a free talk on the magical birds of Costa Rica, 7:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15 in Farrand Hall at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Long ...
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Birds of Central America : Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama / Andrew C. Vallely and Dale Dyer

Birds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Handy and ...