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| Summer Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-winged Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Blue-gray Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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Palm Tanager
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Passerini’s Tanager
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| Gray-headed Tanager Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
See also my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds
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| Slaty-tailed Trogon male Rio Puerto Viejo, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica |
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| Green Kingfisher male Rio Puerto Viejo, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica |
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| Green Kingfisher female Rio Puerto Viejo, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica |
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| Pied Puffbird La Selva Biological Station Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica |
See also my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds
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| Red-legged Honeycreeper male Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Green Honeycreeper female Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Green Honeycreeper male Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion Sarapiquí, La Virgen, Costa Rica |
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| Golden Hooded Tanager Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion Sarapiquí, La Virgen, Costa Rica |
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| Bananaquit Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion Sarapiquí, La Virgen, Costa Rica |
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| Blue Dacnis, male & female (inset is a male, female is mostly green) Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
I am grouping birds together the way they are together in the CR Bird Guide.
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| Yellow-throated Toucan Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion, La Virgen, Costa Rica Former known as Chestnut-Mandibled and then Black-Mandibled Toucan A very common bird in Sarapiquí area including at Selva Verde Lodge. |
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| Keel-billed Toucan Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Collared Aracari Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Keel-billed Toucan Flying Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Pale-billed Woodpecker Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Pale-billed Woodpecker Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Crested Guan Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
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| Crested Guan Above the Sarapiquí River, Chilamate, Costa Rica |
Though I have photographed both of these birds before, these are my best photos of them so far and one goal of all birding trips to keep making better photos of each bird found. Fun!
I’m still sorting and organizing photos and will be for several days, but will try to use some logic in presenting the photos from the lodge and other venues nearby. A lot of photos of a lot of birds!
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| White-water rafters seen from the terrace of my cabin in cell phone. Selva Verde Lodge, Chilamate, Sarapiquí, Costa Rica on the Sarapiquí River |
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| Rafters zoomed-in and cropped from cell phone pix. Selva Verde Lodge, Chilamate, Sarapiquí, Costa Rica on the Sarapiquí River |
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| Yellow-throated Toucan cell phone shot cropped to 1/4 size to enlarge. Behind dining room, Selva Verde Lodge, Chilamate, Sarapiquí, Costa Rica. Good photos of this bird coming in next few days. Saw him everywhere! |
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| Lower Falls at La Paz Gardens Seen from highway enroute to and from Selva Verde Lodge Costa Rica this trip. You don’t see this on your paid visit inside the park! 🙂 |
I drove a rent car through the mountains above Alajuela to avoid going through the nerve-wracking traffic of San Jose, but not sure how much better with all the hairpin curves! It is a tiring drive of less than 60 miles that takes 3 hours. (Yep! I averaged 20 mph!) And rent cars with full insurance are expensive! So next trip will be on public transportation even though I am still not fluent in Spanish. With friendly Ticos I can struggle through the language with less stress than comes with driving through city traffic or mountain curves AND it will be a whole lot less expensive! And slower is part of the adventure. ¡Pura Vida! I was told at Selva Verde that the bus from San Jose was the equivalent of $4, but of course mine will be discounted with my senior adult card. 🙂
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| Levon helping another night hiker get wading boots. |
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| The red wood I thought was cedar is actually almond tree wood. |
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| Snowy Cotinga (A first sighting for me) By Nature Guide Ronald on my phone through his spotting scope Selva Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-throated Toucan (formerly Chestnut or Black-mandibled Toucan) By Nature Guide Ronald on my phone through his spotting scope Selva Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica |
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| Mantled Howler Monkey By Nature Guide Ronald on my phone through his spotting scope Selva Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica And I haven’t mentioned that I hear them often in the forest here. |
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| Nature Guide Ronald at the front entrance to Selva Verde before we cross the road for birds in a botanical garden. |
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| More hummingbirds than I’ve seen almost anywhere else. Some eating out of that heliconia flower. Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica |
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| There was a group of German photographers there with their big lenses. Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica |
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| Dave Senior putting out more fruit for the birds. Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica |
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| Christmas Tree Selva Verde Lodge Restaurant #1 Sarapiqui, Costa Rica |
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| Rain seen from Riverside Room 45, Selva Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica |
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| Today’s Boat Captain/Guide, Luis |
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| Violet-headed Fairy Hummingbird In the gardens of Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiqui Maybe the only bird shot on my cell phone. Shooting into the sun is not good on any camera! |
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| Orchid Blooms In the gardens of Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiqui near my room. |
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| Charlie Enjoying Retirement in Costa Rica My 2014 Selfie at Trogon Lodge, San Gerado de Dota |
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| Somewhere beyond La Paz was this roadside waterfall that had tourists stopping and trucks slowing down. Cell phone shot in a misty rain. |
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| The front porch of my room overlooking the Sarapiqui River. You can see the swinging bridge in the distant that I already walked over. |
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| The Sarapiqui River by my room with good sleeping noise. Its a mountain stream that here is down to the flat lands near banana farms. |