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  1. ManakusCR

    woman birding alone in CR and safety issues

    Hi! While I have no experience with Ecuador or Colombia I would like to comment about CR. CR is a very safe country to travel indeed, just use common sense, naturaly. Now when it comes to birding itself, you would probably be birding at either private reserves or National parks, the National...
  2. ManakusCR

    First ever Bird guide for Nicaragua

    Hi dear BF peeps! This might not be new to all of you but thought to drop the comment. The first-ever field guide to Nicaragua was published last 2014 and is now for sell in the US by buteobooks.com http://www.buteobooks.com/product/14500.html some US amazon sellers have it listed, although...
  3. ManakusCR

    Costa Rica trip: best combination of localities

    I might suggest that you consider a day visit to Tapanti NP, at Turrialba and relatively close to Rancho naturalista so both places could be covered, great for ornate hawk-eagle, ochre breasted antpitta, rufous breasted antthrush, green fronted lancebill and many more interesting spp. In the...
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    Birding Pirre ridge, Darien National Park.

    Last May, me and a group of friends, all from Costa Rica visited the Darien national park with the help of a local guide; Isaac Pizarro. In resume we had the trip of our lifes with quality birds such as crested and harpy eagles, wing banded antbird, crimson bellied woodpecker and many other...
  5. ManakusCR

    BATV Darien episodes

    Thank you Steve! Yes, I will continue working on it, I plan to post at the end all handy info needed, contacts, aprox money spent and other details I know will help birders repeat our journey. My wife is a brave birder, she never gave up and got to admit she cheered me up to continue on, still...
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    BATV Darien episodes

    we were in Pa a total of 9 days, we were at Darien 7 days total. Currently working on the trip report on my blog manuelantoniobirding.wordpress.com but I hope to also write one here in BF eventually
  7. ManakusCR

    BATV Darien episodes

    Me, and a group of friends, all birding guides from Costa Rica just came form a trip to Pirre ridge at Darien NP, we used Isaac Pizarro as our guide (and seems he is "the guide" for this). and can say it has been the best birding experience of our life. Many elements made this trip...
  8. ManakusCR

    A Little Help With IDs

    Brown boobie, Brewsteri raze.
  9. ManakusCR

    January trip help

    Many of the birders who come with family who are not birders find Manuel Antonio such a convenient place, despite the crowd is a great place for general nature and beaches are BEAUTIFUL!, in the birding side, the park is known for its crowd so no good birding there, but there are some local...
  10. ManakusCR

    new edition of Garrigues/Dean

    These field guides had been offered in CR since little more than a month ago now, several people had been selling them here locally, I have 2 of them signed by Richard.
  11. ManakusCR

    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Yellow headed blackbird'

    Thank you Stanley
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    Yellow headed blackbird

    Yellow headed blackbird. A rare NA migrant in Costa Rca
  13. ManakusCR

    Yellow headed blackbird and bobolink in CR

    Thank's Pat! yes I saw your report, that was such quality bird you guys got! Regarding to the Bobolink it has been confirmed by J.Z, K. Easley and others that our "bobolink" was indeed a young/juvenile type red-breasted blackbird, oh well! but the experience was ok, now thanks to their great...
  14. ManakusCR

    Yellow headed blackbird and bobolink in CR

    Yesterday an AOCR member posted an alarm on yellow headed blackbird at Coto 47 (again Coto surprising us with quality birds!) So my friend Roy and I (unfortunately my wife who is a trooper couldnt go today) went today to try to find the bird based on directions provided by Leo Garrigues and...
  15. ManakusCR

    Yellow backed oriole; 910th bird for Costa Rica according AOCR.

    Thanks! yes, we have been pretty lucky and the dedication has been rewarded several times this year. :t:
  16. ManakusCR

    Yellow backed oriole; 910th bird for Costa Rica according AOCR.

    I wanted to share this news here with you guys: On October 14th while visiting my mom in a town called Portalón, 24km south of Quepos, my wife spotted an unusual oriole so she called me immediately for me to see it, the view were at plain sight since I had no optics at the moment, but lucky a...
  17. ManakusCR

    McGillivray's warbler in El Rey marshes, Quepos

    yes Indeed! Clay colored sparrow and lined seedeater were found here for first time in the past. Other unusual (or out of range) birds include green ibis, glossy ibis, yellow rumped warbler, northern pintail, northern shoveler, shining and giant cowbirds, american coot and others. who knows when...
  18. ManakusCR

    McGillivray's warbler in El Rey marshes, Quepos

    During the last 8 days I have been wanting to go to El rey so badly, but thanks to some home work that had kept me busy and the rainy weather we had been experiencing I didnt have the chance, it has been the bad weather indeed what had motivated me to go to El rey, as based on other experiences...
  19. ManakusCR

    Birding Durika, searching for Rosy thrush tanager and other local specialties.

    Thank you Patrick! well we went there twice (2013 and 2014) to finally get those birds! this time we were really determined to get those birds even though it would take us all day. luckily we got them by 1:30ish!
  20. ManakusCR

    Great birding in Costa Rica

    Please go to my blog for the full story and pictures On September 15th my wife Karina my friends Johan Fernandez and Roy Orozco went to Durika and Los Altos de Salitre , Puntarenas. COsta Rica. in search for the birds that are specific to this area i.e wedge tailed grass-Finch, White tailed...
  21. ManakusCR

    Birding Durika, searching for Rosy thrush tanager and other local specialties.

    Hi guys! On September 15th my wife Karina my friends Johan Fernandez and Roy Orozco went to Durika and Los Altos de Salitre in search for the birds that are specific to this area i.e wedge tailed grass-Finch, White tailed Nightjar, ocellated crake and rosy thrush-tanager. which we were so lucky...
  22. ManakusCR

    Striated heron in Coto 47

    We tried the wattled Jacana (and had tried it a few times now). But this time I learned form a local birder that the jacana is something you get sporadically and shows twice a year or so, and others say that the population is so small that chances to see it are really hard now that everything is...
  23. ManakusCR

    Striated heron in Coto 47

    Last September 5th Johan Fernandez and some friends went to the southern pacific of CR, to Coto 47 by Villa Neily looking for the already established Savanna hawk, which there were not able to find, but they did better! they found an striated heron, this extremely rare heron (once considered...
  24. ManakusCR

    Panama report. May 7th-May 18th, 2014

    No problem! Despite it was a short trip and it was not 100% birding the experience was really nice, to me it was a great introduction of the birding quality Panama offers, hopefully one day I can do Azuero for Azuero parakeet and of course El Darien area.:king:
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    Panama report. May 7th-May 18th, 2014

    https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5237/14237848243_e1c7131ec5_c.jpg
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