birds of costa rica

Hello - I'll be taking a family trip (not a solo photography trip) to Costa Rica in mid-July. We'll spend five days at an ecolodge a few miles south of La Fortuna and then head to the coast (Manuel Antonio). I'm planning to take a number of guided tours (bird tour and a few other nature-oriented...

A Keel-billed Toucan covered with water droplets gives me an over the shoulder look as it sits out in the rain. These toucans are also called Rainbow-billed Toucans for obvious reasons. Their diet consists mostly of fruit, but they also raid the nest of other birds to get eggs and nestlings...

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to photograph a pair of Northern Emerald Toucanets at their active nest hollow. The parents would fly in with food for their nestlings and land on the edge go the hollow. Before entering the hollow, they would take a careful look around. I assume that...

A male Black-crested Coquette hovers in front of a blue porter weed flower before dipping in for a drink of nectar. These male hummingbirds have a unique crest of long and thin black feathers, seen well here. Females lack this crest and the black coloring to the head and face. This image was...

I commented in a recent post that I am on the Board of Directors of the Macaw Recovery Network, an NGO headquartered in Costa Rica that is dedicated to parrot conservation. One of their initial targets for conservation intervention is the Great Green Macaw, Ara ambiguus. This species is listed...

Here are a couple of images of the other parrot species from Costa Rica that are of a new species for me to photograph. These are orange-fronted parakeets, Epsittula canicularis. I have now photographed about 85 species of parrots to date. Hoping to get over 100 this year!