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Hi, friends. I am looking for a monocular I can chuck in my purse or pocket for casual day-to-day use. I want something discreet, compact, and lightweight that I can use to get a closer look at birds flitting on the trees beside the road whenever I'm out on a walk. I'm willing to invest no more...

I want to purchase a budget monocular that I can throw in my purse or in a coat pocket for casual birdwatching while I'm at Uni, at work, or outside walking the dog. So far the best option in terms of size (it has to be less than 10 cm / 4 inches long), weight (preferably less than 250 g/8.8...

A few months ago, my search for a new pair of binoculars turned into a miserable slog through dozens of reviews of near-identical models, and the corresponding barrage of abuse spewed at one model or the other. A streak of hope, too, in manufacturers' promises of new and improved versions of the...

Ring-billed gull? For comparison, here's a photo of a winter adult Ring-billed from Washington, D.C. (Nov 2010). But the legs on your gull are grayish, while the legs on mine are yellow. If no other species, perhaps a younger ring-billed with pinkish legs that appear gray from an angle...

1. Agreed. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 2. Agreed. Gray-capped Flycatcher 3. juvenile Green-crowned Brilliant

1. Scaly-breasted hummingbird. 2. female white-collared seedeater 3. female Passerini's tanager 4. White-crowned parrot 5. Buff-rumped warbler

Oops, that's right.

1. Royal Tern 2. Brown-crested or Nutting's flycatcher. I would go for brown-crested unless you noticed a cinnamon rump. 3. Mangrove Swallow 4. Neotropic Cormorant 5. Garden Emerald

Probably orange oriole (Icterus auratus). Too orange for Hooded (I. cucullatus), not stocky enough for Altamira (I. gularis).

1. Myiarchus sp., likely Brown-crested Flycatcher 2. Empidonax sp., probably Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 3. Streak-headed Woodcreeper 4. Short-tailed Hawk 5. White-tailed Kite Do you have any other photographs for #1 and #2?

Purchased a new field guide for Christmas; turns out my reptile was actually a male gray lichen anole (Anolis intermedius).

I changed my mind - the last frog is a Craugastor polyptychus or rain frog. The second frog is indeed a masked treefrog (Smilisca phaeota). I'm still not sure about the first one.

I'm guessing it's either a greater pewee (Contopus pertinax-pibí mayor), or a Western wood-pewee (Contopus sordidulus-pibí occidental).

Thank you for this information. Downtown, I regularly see pigeons hobbling on amputated feet; it hurts to think of the pain they must be in.

Flying in a V-formation help birds take advantage of the extra lift provided by the upwash of air from the bird in front of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKSZtbSEmwg The video as a whole is pretty incredible news.

Grayish saltator (Saltator coerulescens) Saltator o picurero grisáceo

I'm thinking Bransford's litter frog (Eleutherodactylus bransfordii) for the last one.

Solved This photograph of a ground anole (Anolis humilis) is identical to the one I saw. Solved ID!

(No photo--sorry!) In Monteverde, a fairly small (<5 cm excluding the tail) anole scurrying on leaf litter, overall coloration a brownish pattern that blended with the dead leaves, slightly paler underside. I don't have Leender's guide, so help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the info, Bill. Up until recently I spent most of my life in the San José city area; I still go there every other month. I've changed my mind, though. I think that the Zen-Rays would suit my needs better than the Monarch 7s. They're heavier and a bit above my budget (at least the...