Richard Garrigues

Costa Rica

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Richard Garrigues has been birding since the age of 16, when a Black-and-white Warbler—walking up a tree trunk just a few feet away from him in his suburban New Jersey home—made a lasting impression. Since 1981, he has lived in Costa Rica, where for more than 20 years he has been leading birding and natural history tours. In April 2000, he published the first quarterly online Gone Birding Newsletter and has been keeping readers up-to-date on rare bird sightings, new distributional records, and other birding news ever since. He has put all this experience to use by writing a new field identification guide to the birds of Costa Rica, which should hopefully be available soon.

When the opportunity arose to visit northwestern Ecuador in June 2005, Richard purchased an inexpensive video camera (Canon ZR200) to document the trip. Between this trip and a subsequent one in November 2005 to eastern Ecuador, he managed to get some passable footage of a number of interesting species. In the future, he hopes to find the time to video birds in Costa Rica.
IBC Personal statistics:

• First material posted on 21 July 2006
• Number of videos posted: 303 covering 262 species (2.66%)
• Number of photos posted: 0 covering 0 species (0%)
• Number of sounds posted: 0 covering 0 species (0%)