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Address: Volcan Arenal, La Fortuna, 9887050, CR
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14/05/2024

Jabiru
Jabiru mycteria

This is a rare and local resident bird in lowlands in Costa Rica, with not many breeding pairs in the country this massive stork can be hard to find.
In Costa Rica Caño Negro and Palo Verde areas are great places to try finding this big bird. It can be seen foraging or resting in fresh water marshes, savannas and flooded or recently plowed agricultural lands.

13/05/2024

Sunbittern in nest
Eurypyga helias

09/04/2024

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker
Celeus cataneus

This beautiful woodpecker is a Caribbean lowland specialty in Costa Rica. It has a big showy crest, ass well the paler head is characteristic.

Woodpeckers have some amazing adaptations for their pecking and creeping habits:
A strong, chisel-like, pointed bill.
Zygodactyl toes, having two toes facing forward and two backward.
Short legs.
And a strong stiff tail feathers.

08/04/2024

Pale-billed Woodpecker
Campephilus guatemalensis

The only woodpecker of this genus in Costa Rica, easy to tell apart by its all bright red head and pale bill as its name suggest.

As well one that can be easy to notice by its distinctive drum of two loud knocks of quick succession.

Generally woodpeckers don't use the same hole for nesting more than ones, so they are constantly building for them and for others as well.

06/04/2024

Cabanis's Ground-Sparrow
Melozone cabanisi

This gourgeous little bird is a Costa Rican endemic. It can be find mainly around the Central Valley, where it is uncommon in brushy and grassy fields, as well as coffee plantations. There is less of this kind of habitat as urbanization advances daily.

Melozone comes form the Greek meaning "cheek belt", both Melozone sparrows in Costa Rica have this belt pattern on the face. And the species cabinisi refers to Cabanis a German ornithologist.

04/04/2024

Striped-headed Sparrow
Peucaea ruficauda

This beautiful sparrow distinguish by it marked black and white striped head. Mostly find in the North Pacific lowlands, where it is commonly seen in small groups foraging on or near the ground.

The genera of this birds comes from the greek "peuke" meaning pine-tree and the species "ruficauda" refers to its rufous tail.

02/04/2024

Slaty-tailed Trogon
Trogon massena

This is the only trogon in Costa Rica with an all dark tail with no pattern. Both male and female have orange on the bill, the males bill is all orange and the female's bill is orange on the base.

Trogons in general have long tails, short legs and short heavy bills, superficially trogons resemble parrots but have much smaller bills.

There are 39 trogon species in the world in 6 genera.

Trogons are monogamous and territorial during breeding season, usually solitary at other times.

The genera Trogon comes from the greek meaning fruit-eater, and massena refers to a French ornithologist and collector.

12/03/2024

Acorn Woodpecker
Melanerpes formicivorus

Woodpeckers belong to the family Picidae, this birds are found in all continents, but notably absent from Australia.
Woodpeckers have a suite of adaptations that allow them to use their chisel-like bill to hammer into trees in search of invertebrate prey, as well as build tree holes they use as nest.

Melanerpes comes from the Greek meaning "black creeper" and formicivorus comes from the Latin meaning "ant-eating".

08/03/2024

Violet-headed Hummingbird
Klais guimeti

The family Trochilidae, which are hummingbirds have about 360 species, of which 50 occurs regularly in Costa Rica.

This small hummer is easily distinguish for its white post-ocular spot and the violet forehead. This hummingbird is a common on low to middle elevations on the Caribbean slope, and less common in the Pacific slope.
Forages at small flowering trees mainly on the canopy of the forest and edges, as well visits gardens with abundant Stachytarpheta.

07/03/2024

Ruddy Quail-dove
Geotrygon montana

This is a fairly common quail-dove in lowlands and foothill in the country, probably the most common to encounter in the forest trails. It is generally shy but somewhat more confiding than other quail-doves.

The latin name of this birds refers to the habits of this birds, meaning "ground dove of the mountain".

06/03/2024

Buff-fronted Quail-dove
Zentrygon costaricensis

This is a very good looking quail-dove find in the foothill and highland forest.

Quail-doves are chunky and compact, generally elusive forest birds, as their name suggests they are a combination between a quail and a dove. They are hard to detect, they walk on the forest floor, we sometimes they move leaf litter and make some sounds, most times they are detected too late and they flush explosively.

05/03/2024

Royal Flycatcher
Onychorhynchus mexicanus

This is a very distinctive flycatcher, it has a hammerhead crest, cinnamon rump and tail.
Royal Flycatchers are often find around streams, where they can be very active sallying and fluttering after prey.

Onychorhynchus refers to the nail tip of this birds bill. Interesting the the Latin name of this birds do not refers to the fancy crest this bird flashes when alarm mainly.

20/02/2024

Grasshopper Sparrow
Ammodramus savannarum

This is a small, stocky and has a short tail, mainly habits dry grasslands. It skulks on or near the ground in grasses or weeds.

Ammodramus comes from the greek meaning "desert racer" and savannarum refers to the prefer habitat of the bird the savannahs.

04/02/2024

Olivaceous Piculet
Picumnus olivaceus

The smallest woodpecker in Costa Rica.

The roman myth refers to Picumnus as the personification of a woodpecker, as well the word Picumnus can refer to a small woodpecker.

02/02/2024

American Pygmy-kingfisher
Chloroceryle aenae

The smallest kingfisher of the Americas.
This minuscule kingfisher can be distinguished from the larger and rarer Green and rufous kingfisher but the white belly and vent.

This is a bird that can be find in Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge where it flavors swamp forest and shaded streams.

28/01/2024

Sunbittern
Eurypyga helias

This unmistakable bird, prefers fast-flowing streams in forested areas, in both Caribbean and Pacific slopes.

Eurypyga comes from the greek and refers to the broad rump, and helias as well comes from the greek meaning sun.

26/01/2024

Collared Trogon
Trogon collaris

Trogons are medium sized arboreal birds, mostly brightly colored with green, blue-violet above and red, orange or yellow below.
Trogons have short legs and weak feet, limiting their ability to walk and climb. They can sit motionless, until they do a short aerial sallies after food, which can be fruit, insects and occasionally small vertebrates.

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