Please come to the Las Cruces Biological Station this Saturday for a fun-filled family day! The Las Cruces staff will provide events, workshops, music and more for every member of the family. As usual, the SVBC will host an Annual Bake Sale, Face Painting, an Artistic Mural for all to create plus an environmental education activity. See the schedules below for detail
ed information! Hope to see you there!
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Quiz Bird Answer! May 18th Posting
This was a difficult Quiz Bird. We did have one correct guess on Facebook from the great and powerful Gabriel Calvo, who correctly identified the…NORTHERN SCHIFFORNIS.
I often refer the Northern Schiffornis as a ‘birder’s bird’, due its rather monotonous plumage, sluggish behavior and secretive lifestyle. The Northern Schiffornis definitely does not fall into the ‘charismatic’ category. But it has a jolly good song! Click in the ‘Listen’ button in the lower right of the screen (below).
https://ebird.org/species/thlsch2
Plus, no one (not even those wacky taxonomists) has ever really known what to call it. Not long ago it was known as the Thrushlike Schiffornis and before that it was thought to be some sort of Manakin
Is it a Flycatcher? Is it a Becard? Is it a Manakin? Is it a Thrush? Nope. It is our one-and-only Northern Schiffornis.
(photo courtesy of Randall Jimenez)
New Quiz Bird: May 18, 2019
Oh man, I do love this bird.
If you are able to correctly identify this species (without any hints from me), you have mad birding skills!
Send your IDs to:
eltangaral@gmail.com
(photo courtesy of Randall Jimenez)
The Birdwalk Will Be at the Wilson Botanical Garden / La caminata será al jardín botánico Wilson
I forgot to say where the walk will be… It will be at the Wilson Botanical Garden.
Me olvidé indicar donde será la caminata… Será al jardín botánico Wilson.
Bird Walk This Sunday / Caminata para ver aves el próximo domingo
We’ll be having a relaxing walk through the pollinator garden to see what we can see, and then coffee afterwards with some more bird watching from the comedor. We’ll meet at the recepción at 7:30 AM. There’ll be binoculars and guides for those who need them. See you Sunday!
Caminaremos tranquilement por el jardín de polinizadores para ver lo que podremos ver. Después tomaremos un café al comedor, y me imagino que veríamos una aves más. Nos encontraremos a la recepción al las 7:30 AM. Habrá binoculares y guías para los que los quisieran. ¡Hasta domingo, ojalá!
Bird Quiz Winner for May 2019!
Congratulations to Leticia Andino for correctly identifying our Quiz Bird for May 2019; the INCA DOVE.
About the same size and of similar behavior as our extremely common Ruddy Ground Dove, the Inca Dove is a regular resident in the dry country of Guanacaste.
Well done Lety!
Quiz Bird for May 2019!
This month’s quiz bird isn’t seen in San Vito. It has been spotted down the hill around Coto 47. Could this bird be another species that is expanding its range? I hope so!
Send your best guess to:
eltangaral@gmail.com
(photo courtesy of Alison Olivieri)
(Last quiz bird photo, Cooper’s Hawk, courtesy of Gail Hull)
San Vito Bird Club 
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