Happy Halloween!

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It's once more that most ghoulish day of the year! No, not election day or tax day, my pretties! It's Halloween! In the spirit (gasp...

Thinking About Palms

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Dusk falling rosy Bedtime for parrots, monkeys wind rattles palm fronds.

Fiery-throated Hummingbird

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The male fiery-throated hummingbird on his favorite perch. I've focused the last few BOTB posts on the first days of my recent Panama tr...

More Panama Cloud Forest Birding

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There's a reason they call this the cloud forest. On the morning of Day 2 in Panama we headed back up the mountain to the distant, off-t...

Chiriqui Cloud Forest

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Gardens at Los Quetzales in Guadalupe, Panama. After an early morning flight to the David airport in the western highlands of Panama, our gr...

Panama Birding Day 1

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My most recent trip was to the isthmus of land that connects Central and South America: the country of Panama . I was the guest, along with ...

Dawn, Cerro Azul

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From the overlook, dawn breaking like soft rain the humid, warming earth heaves skyward its misty breath. Smaller hills like sleeping bodies...

For the OOS

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Here's a shout-out to my homeys in the Ohio Ornithological Society . I'm wearing my OOS hat during several days birding in the cloud...

Bird of the Trip Thus Far

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We spotted a white hawk on a distant forest mountainside while birding in the El Valle region. I took this digiscoped image of it through t...

Giant Things of Panama City

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Wherever you go in the world, it's comforting to know that there are Giant Things to see and admire. This guy lives in front of the Shri...

Far Gone, But Where?

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Sorry for the gap in the posts here at BOTB. I have been traveling. After the enjoyable but taxing 24 hours of The Big Sit I was quite tired...

Big Sit 2008: Final Report

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The view from the tower on Big Sit day 2008. Well we ended up the 2008 Big Sit at Indigo Hill at 69 species. That's a new record by four...

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