This morning Ernesto and I went to work at a new study site in Ujarrás to define the transect protocols for some of the routes we are going to use to do surveys of the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. We arrived at 6 and several of them were calling from the coffee plantations located on both sides of the road and quickly saw a brownish, chunky bird hopping on the side of the gravel road: it was a fledgling Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow! The photo is not great because it was distant and

​​It was quite a few years ago I became interested in doing a Big Day, but it wasn't until 2014 I gave it a try. The first two attempts were not very productive having not planned the best route, but in 2015 I set a new route and together with Jairo Jiménez we also set a new record for Costa Rica and third highest in the world tallying 351 species. This year we decided it was time to do it again, but for a very different reason. This time we were going to use the Big Day as