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Tag: Travel | Costa Rica
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the lord god bird
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ever since a certain large, unnamed conservation organization “rediscovered” the ivory-billed woodpecker in 2005, i’ve had nightmares about pileated woodpeckers (the smaller but similarly marked woodpecker that the the ivory-billed woodpecker has been frequently mistaken for).which makes it awesome that the first bird it was the first bird that I saw in costa rica — pileated, not ivory-billed.
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that said, in an eight day trip, it really only effected our plans once — and even then it probably shouldn’t have. (only one day did it thunder, but it was so distant that we probably could have swum if we wanted to.) we made sure it was going to be nice before we did the national park, but other than that we didn’t even really have to schedule around it.
plus — rainy season meant WAY less people, which seems like a completely fair price to pay.