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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birdingcraft" data-source="post: 1574675" data-attributes="member: 55810">I have to admit that I am pretty happy to see vultures soaring over the city (very common birds overall in CR), and seeing a White-tailed Kite hover over a park in central San Jose is always fantastic. Smaller towns in Costa Rica with more green space get more raptors and birds overall, especially places near good forest like Golfito, and Santa Elena. Since Golfito is located adjacent to hills with a great deal of rainforest, one could probably get well over a dozen raptor species within or very close to town. I wouldn't call that site very urban though so don't think it falls very much into that category. As for a few other cities in the neotropics, I am sure Panama City has a very good list of raptors that occur within city limits due to the good forest in Metropolitan Park, I have seen Harris Hawks soaring over downtown Lima, Peru, and got my lifer Slender-billed Kite in the form of a lone bird flapping its way over Puerto Maldonao, Peru.If migrants count as urban raptors, it might be hard to beat the ridiculous river of raptors over Cardel, Veracruz, Mexico.</blockquote>