Women Birders (Happy Hour)

Casey is a birder, photographer, and guide based in Pennsylvania. 

Learn more about Tree Swallow.

Tree Swallow
Ingredients
2 oz vodka
1 oz Blue Curacao
1 oz lime juice
1 oz ginger beer
Small dash of edible cocktail glitter
Ice

Instructions
1.    Fill the glass with ice
2.    Stir in vodka, blue curacao, lime juice, and edible glitter
3.    Carefully top with ginger beer

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Donna is a guide, birder, and researcher based in Australia.

Learn more about Ground Cuckooshrike.

Ground Cuckooshrike
Ingredients
2 oz heavy cream
1 oz green crème de menthe
1 oz white crème de cacao
1/2 oz dark crème de menthe
¼ oz brandy 
Chocolate sprinkles
Ice

Instructions
1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake shake shake
3. Pour into martini glass (if you want, drizzle chocolate beforehand) and then top with a few chocolate sprinkles 

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Nicole is a birder, historian, and explorer based in Northern California.

Learn more about Vermilion Flycatcher.

Vermilion Flycatcher
Ingredients
¼ cup sliced strawberries
1 ½ oz tequila
1 oz lime juice
½ oz triple sec
1 tsp white sugar
Ice
Lime wedge

Instructions
1.    Put the strawberries, tequila, lime juice, triple sec, and sugar in a blender. Blend until smooth.
2.    Add ice cubes, blend until ice is crushed.
3.    Rim the glass with additional sugar, if you want.  Then pour the margarita into the glass.

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Rene is a guide and birder in South Africa.

Learn more about Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross.

Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Dark Rum
½ oz Benedictine liqueur
Splash of Amaro
1 oz lime juice
¼ oz simple syrup
Lemon peel
Ice

Instructions
1. Combine all ingredients except the lemon peel in a shaker
2. Shake shake shake
3. Strain into a glass and garnish with the lemon peel

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 Sydney is a researcher, advocate, and student who works with seabirds.

Learn more about Resplendent Quetzal.

Resplendent Quetzal
Ingredients
1 oz white tequila
1/2 oz lime juice
½ oz Triple Sec
½ oz lemon juice
¼ c cubed avocado
Sugar
ice

Instructions
1.    Blend tequila, lime and lemon juice, triple sec, and avocado cubes
2.    Wet the rim of the glass with lime juice and coat with the sugar and then add ice
3.    Pour in the cocktail into the prepared glass

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Carolina is an educator, guide, scientist, and more based in Chile. 

Learn more about White-bellied Woodstars.

White-bellied Woodstar
Ingredients
3 oz Pisco
1 ½ oz Crème de Cassis
1 ½ lime juice
Ginger beer
ice

Instructions
1.    Mix pisco, crème de cassis, and lime juice in a shaker with ice.  
2.    Shake shake shake
3.    Strain into an ice filled glass 
4.    Top with Ginger beer and stir

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Cara is the founder of a San Diego-based women's birding group called CHICKS Birding Club.   

Learn more about Northern Cardinals.

Northern Cardinal
Ingredients
2 oz lime vodka
1 oz grenadine
8 oz sparkling water
Ice

Instructions
1.    Fill glass with ice
2.    Pour with vodka and grenadine, stir gently
3.    Top with soda

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Angelina is a scientist, educator, and birder who is based in the Rio Grande Valley.   

Learn more about Pel's Fishing Owl.

Pel’s Fishing Owl

Ingredients
1 ounce caramel syrup, more for rim
Kosher or sea salt, for the glass rim
1 1/2 ounces vanilla vodka
2 ounces Irish cream liqueur
Ice

Instructions

1.    Roll the rim of a martini glass in a shallow dish of caramel.
2.    Roll the glass in a dish of salt, coating it lightly all the way around.
3.    If you want to drizzle caramel inside the glass, lightly drizzle caramel webbing inside the glass. Place the glass in the freezer so the caramel sets up while you mix the drink.
4.    In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, pour the vanilla vodka, Irish cream, and 1 ounce of caramel syrup.
5.    Shake Shake Shake
6.    Strain the drink into the prepared glass

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Jen is a musician, advocate, and festival coordinator based in the Ozarks.

Find out more about Red-crowned Parrot.

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Red-crowned Parrot
Ingredients
1.5 oz midori liqueur
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup
.5 oz orange liqueur
.5 oz pomegranate liqueur
ice

Directions
1.    Add ice, midori, lemon juice, simple syrup, and orange liqueur to shaker
2.    Shake shake shake
3.    Strain into a glass
4.    Top with the pomegranate liqueur

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Brenda is a birder and guide based in Panama.

Find out more about Red-legged Honeycreeper.

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Red-legged Honeycreeper
Ingredients
2 oz coconut rum
½ oz blue curacao
4 oz sprite or 7up
½ tb grenadine
Ice

Directions
1.    Fill glass with ice
2.    Add coconut rum, blue curacao, and sprite to a glass
3.    Pour in grenadine
4.    Appreciate and stir

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