COSTA RICA
Costa Rica has more than 800 bird species and many different biotopes, including rainforests and the exotic birds that inhabit them.
After completing close to 30 photo blinds in Hungary, I wanted to see if the same concept could work in another location. I set out with a small group of people to Costa Rica, a whopping 10,000 km (6,214 mi) away from my home village, with a plan to build functional, high-quality bird photo blinds.
As a result of our six-month building project, we completed a combination of blinds in the Laguna Del Lagarto area that offer good settings for photographing typical rainforest species—toucans, aracaris, honeycreepers, colibris, and King Vultures—in ideal settings. To attract the world’s most colorful ...
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