Wednesday October 7, 7:00 PM
Blacksburg Community Center, 615 Patrick Henry Drive
Pre-meeting dinner @ 5:15 - El Rodeo, 623 N Main St, Blacksburg
Bird of the Month: Migrating Tanagers
Birding in Northern Costa Rica: Gulf of Nicoya to the Atlantic Slope
By Douglas G. Pfeiffer, Professor Emeritus Department of Entomology VT
In March of this year, club members Doug and Sally Pfeiffer, Mike Schultz and Edie Schumacher joined a Road Scholar birding trip across northern Costa Rica. Their birding experience was fantastic, covering a range of habitats from dry tropical forest to mangrove swamp to rain forest. The birds in Costa Rica are very diverse, with toucans, parrots and macaws, multiple kingfisher species, saltators and honeycreepers, bananaquits and grassquits among the 297 species in the group Trip Report. Please come to hear about their 11 days in the country!