Christian Mena Tour Guide

01/10/2024

This beautiful mushroom was found on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica, near La Fortuna area.

01/10/2024

This is a close-up of the head of this Walkingstick a female of_Phanocles costaricensis_ (Diapleromeridae). The most remarkable feature of this specimen is the very long body length and also the amazing camouflage resembling a stick. They have a diet based on leaves, they have mostly nocturnal lives, and lay their eggs by attaching them to the vegetation.

08/09/2024

Los murciélagos de campamento. Estas especies de murciélagos practican un tipo de ingeniería que les permite construir “tiendas” con la vegetación. Las tiendas protegen a los murciélagos durante el día de la lluvia, el sol y los depredadores.

26/08/2024

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20/08/2024

07/08/2024

White Hawk (Pseudastur albicollis).
This hawk prefers forested areas in hilly terrain; hunts inside canopy or at edges and gaps. It occurs from Southern Mexico to east Peru, Northern Bolivia, and Eastern Brazil.

01/08/2024

Boa Imperator at Monteverde Wildlife Refuge 🌿
This snake is the longest species that lives in Costa Rica, it can measure up to 3.7 meters

29/07/2024

Norops sp. 🌿

25/06/2024

This is a "Slug Caterpillar" from the family of butterflies Limacodidae. Many of them have bight green colors, some have tubercules with urticating spines ( Hanson, P. 2016)

15/05/2024

The rainy season is coming slowly, the amount of these little creatures that we see during the is greater than a few weeks ago.

14/05/2024

This beautiful seen was a gift from nature, at tonight's tour.

Two-toeth Sloth and her baby.



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10/02/2024

Common Pauraque / Cuyeo / Nyctidromus albicollis

This is a very common and widespread species of nocturnal bird.

The coloration allows it to camouflage amongst the dry leafs on the forest understory.

04/02/2024

🌱 Caminata Guiada Diurna 🌱
Olingo 🔭
Bassaricyon gabbii

29/04/2023

Keel-billed Toucan/ Tucan Picoiris/ Ramphastos sulphuratus.

This is one of the second biggest of the Costarrican toucans. Many times you discover yourself thinking that the sound that you are hearing belongs to a frog, but in fact it's this toucan.

This is an omnivore type of bird, so it can go from fruit to meet if it's required.

Come join us on the bird watching tour to see this species and many more.

16/02/2023

This a beautiful male of the Red-legged Honeycreeper.
The combination or red feet and a blue/black outfit with a light blue crown.

It has a special bill to be able to visit flowers and drink the delicious nectar.

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16/02/2023

Una mañana excelente y muchas maravillas que nos regala la naturaleza.

Una zona como la de San Luis es un caso especial con una alta diversidad en aves, es un lugar que merece la pena visitar.



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12/02/2023

This is a very small insect, a type of cricket. He pretends to be a leaf. Nature has extraordinary ways to surprise you in every night tour.

17/01/2023

Northern Emerald Toucanet / Aulacorhynchus prasinus/
Tucancillo Verde

Esta especie es una de las emblemáticas de los bosques de altura.
Tiene una dieta muy variada y las podemos encontrar tanto en bosques primarios como en bosques secundarios y en bordes de bosques y jardines.

09/11/2022

This is the Broad-winged Hawk this is one of the most commonly found Hawk during the migration between the end of September through the middle of November.

This individual was perched right above a busy parking lot, but in a different environment than back home since this time he was enjoying a sunny morning at the here in 🇨🇷 .

06/11/2022

What a great time we had at the Nighwalk even though it was very rainy! We love to share nature with our visitors, come join us!

The image corresponds to the Leaf mimicking katydid, intrepid night creature that decided to go out almost careless about the weather conditions...just like we did!


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23/10/2022

Summer Tanager esta es una especie migratoria que nos visita desde el norte del continente.

Esta especie fue vista durante un recorrido en un jardín impresionante en el corazón de Monteverde. Cabañas Los Pinos.

14/10/2022

This is the interaction of two individuals of the Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campehilus guatemalensis) as they are searching for insects inside the bark of a very tall tree. Also you can see Brown Jays ( Psilorhinus morio) flying by.
This is one of the very large woodpeckers of Costa Rica, found from Mexico down to western Panama.


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13/10/2022

Nighttour are one of my favorite activities to do.
The chance to explore nature and find the wonders that are hidden behind every leave and branch.


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22/06/2022

Esta hermosa orquídea se llama Ponthieva maculata, si bien es cierto este género normalmente tiene hábitos terrestres en la zona de Monteverde tenemos dos que son epifitas. *
Las orquídeas son parte de los habitantes mas diversos del bosque nuboso y los encontramos desde el nivel del sotobosque con algunas especies terrestres hasta las hermosas miniaturas que viven en el dosel.
Gracias al experto en orquídeas

* Gabriel Barboza por aportar con su conocimiento de la especie........
This is Ponthieva maculata, a miniature orchid of the Cloud forest.

This family of plants is very well represented in this complex ecosystem, and we can find them at all levels of the forest from forest understory to the crowded tree tops..

13/03/2022

EN: Spider Monkey
ESP: Mono Araña Centroamericano
(Ateles geoffrogy)

Esta es una especie de primate que habita en los bosques neo tropicales, desde México hasta Panamá. Y se alimentan de muchas especies de frutos y en menor proporción de hojas e invertebrados. Pueden llegar a medir entre 38 a 52 cm, su cola es prehensil pesan de 4 a 6 kg siendo mas grandes la hembras que los machos.

En la imagen hay una hembra en la cual se puede notar el cl****is, es largo y se protuye de tal forma que se asemeja a un pene. Al alcanzar la madurez sexual, la hembra abandona su grupo natal, más no así los machos.

Hay datos de individuos que llegaron a vivir entre 27 a 30 años.

Esta amenazado por la pérdida de hábitat lo cual está relacionado a la deforestación y pero también a la cacería.