Saturday, January 06, 2007

Body count: birds


Find the hummingbird!
The diversity of bird species in Costa Rica is extraordinary. These are a few that I spotted.

Brown pelican
Frigatebird
Cattle egret
Green heron
Tri-colour heron
Little blue heron
Great egret
White ibis
Whistling duck
Turkey vulture
Black vulture
King vulture
Osprey
White hawk
Blackhawk
Caracara
Jacana
Whimbrel
Willet
Spotted sandpiper
Ground dove
Inca dove
White-tipped dove
Scarlet macaw
Smooth-billed ani
Groove-billed ani
Crested owl
Common pauraque
Orange-bellied trogon
Amazon kingfisher
Green kingfisher
Chestnut toucan
Lineated woodpecker
Streak-headed woodcreeper
Cinnamon becard
White-winged becard
Orange-collared manakin
Tropical kingbird
Boat-billed flycatcher
Streaked flycatcher
Social flycatcher
Great kiskadee
Yellowish flycatcher
Tody flycatcher
Mangrove swallow
Brown jay
House wren
Clay-coloured robin
Long-billed gnatwren
Bananaquit
Tennessee warbler
Mangrove warbler
Great-tailed grackle
Baltimore oriole
Redwinged blackbird
Blue-grey tanager
Cherrie tanager
Scarlet-rumped tanager
Summer tanager
Striped headed sparrow
Green hermit hummingbird
Violet sabrewing hummingbird
Green violetear hummingbird
Mangrove hummingbird
Rufous-tailed hummingbird

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