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We had some
really fun sightings on my annual spring tour to Costa Rica. A first for me in
the country was Black-and-white Becard, a pair building a nest at TapantÃ
National Park. Another highlight was a kettle of 159 migrating Mississippi
Kites. Of course we saw Resplendent Quetzal well, but it tied with the number
of votes for favorite bird of the tour with this Lesser Ground-Cuckoo, a much
scarcer bird and hard to find in the middle of the day, the only time we’re ever
in its range in Costa Rica.
At
Monteverde I had the fortune of coinciding with my friend Thomas Meinzen, whom
I met nearly 7 years earlier when he was a very eager 14-year-old birder
visiting SE Arizona with his dad. Thomas was in Costa Rica for a semester
abroad from Whitman College, after which he had a summer internship with the nonprofit
Osa Conservation in the southern Pacific part of the country. See https://osaconservation.org/.
For me one
of the top sightings of the tour was this butterfly, the recently described (2015)
Lathecla winnie, and possibly the first
time it has ever been photographed in the wild; it’s still the only photo
online live or dead. It was at La Paz Waterfall Gardens on our last day.
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