Great Kiskadee
February 2013 – Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
I’m pretty sure this is a Great Kiskadee and not a Boat-billed Flycatcher (the two look very similar), as I have a few other images in this series that help with the identification… (though, I’ll have to say that the bill on this one looks more like the Boat-billed). Anyway, neat bird.
Mangrove Black-Hawk
February 2013 – Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
These were fairly common in the Carate Beach area… They look like some other Black-Hawk species, but I had to do a bit of detective work to arrive at this identification… just because they’re called a “Mangrove” Black-Hawk, doesn’t mean there needs to be a mangrove forest nearby…
Bananaquit
February 2013 – Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
So, it seems the Bananaquit is in a class by itself… not sure how it’s related to other bird families. That’s fine with me. Saw a bunch of these in and around the Carate Beach area.
Scarlet Macaw
February 2013 – Osa Peninsula
After seeing these birds soaring free and wild, it’s hard to ponder one in a cage.. outside of the tropics. These birds love life so much, they need to live it.
Scarlet Macaw
Crested Caracara
February 2013 – Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
One of those birds I always considered so rare, but simply because they live in another place. In their own habitat, they’re not rare at all… rather a very visible large bird.
Black-throated Trogon
February 2013 – Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
I have to thank Dennis, the driver of our car, for hearing this Black-throated Trogon calling softly as we drove underneath. He got out and spotted the bird pretty quickly… and a female nearby too. Pretty amazing experience, even if it was only brief.
Black-throated Trogon – Female
Barred Becard
February 2013 – Monteverde, Costa Rica
This is one of those birds that visited a branch nearby in the undergrowth for one a few moments. I managed a couple decent shots, and then it was gone.
Blue-crowned Motmot
February 2013 – Monteverde, Costa Rica
At least two of these were hanging out near the entrance of a reserve that borders Monteverde. The other one had a really beat-up tail – not sure how that happened. This one was in a little better shape.
Coppery-headed Emerald
February 2013 – Monteverde, Costa Rica
It’s interesting to pick out the different Hummingbirds. They’re often very similar, yet all certainly identifiable. It would be quite a job to be the first one to figure this all out.
Brown Jay
February 2013 – Monteverde, Costa Rica
Just another one of those random birds you see in a tree in a meadow in the cloud forest in Costa Rica…