Maybe it was the “Birds of North America” book that laid by my dying grandfather’s bed in his living room, or how we spent hours watching for and identifying birds through those windows … but I grew into my twenties fascinated by birds. Some day, I think, I’ll be a real birder. For now, I’m happy that our modern day birds don’t have teeth (like their ancestors) and I simply laugh at the % of vacation photos that have birds in them.
Reconstruction of Iberomesornis romerali, a toothed enantiornithe, from Wikipedia.
And so like with the Birds of Kaua’i, I give you the Birds of Costa Rica. (Does she see a Quetzal? you ask. Scroll down to find out.)
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- Green Crowned Brilliant Hummingbird @ Monteverde Costa Rica
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- Green Crowned Brilliant Hummingbird @ Monteverde Costa Rica
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- Another humming bird at Monteverde Costa Rica
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- Humming bird and a bee at Monteverde Costa Rica
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- purple throated mountain gem hummingbird @ Monteverde Costa Rica
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- King Fisher at Lake Arenal, Costa Rica
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- spotted this adorable orange chinned parakeet while resting in our hostel in la fortuna, costa rica
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- spotted this adorable orange chinned parakeet while resting in our hostel in la fortuna, costa rica
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- Spotted a blue bird, which at first I took to be a parakeet but that I now think is a Blue Grey Tanager
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- Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) at Playa de Negra, south pacific Costa Rica
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- Great Egret or Great White Heron
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- Whimbrel – Numenius phaeopus on our beach walk from the banana azul to puerto viejo
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- i never knew toucans came in these colors. from our balcony at the banana azul.
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- Hawk, at La Cieba
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- Passerini’s Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica.
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- a dove flies away
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- These Social Flycatchers lived up to their name — as I definitely saw more of these than any others
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- another hummingbird, almost in flight
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- Northern Jaçana hanging around the Sloth Sanctuary in Cahuita, Costa Rica.
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- another yellow bird … maybe a juvi
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- On a boat tour around the sloth sanctuary, Cahuita Costa Rica.
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- great egret in Cahuita Costa Rica
Alas, I did not see a Quetzel. Thus, it’s imperative I return to the region some day. Birded out? Check out non birding Costa Rica adventures on my Flickr set.
