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The AIs threw out possibilities but no match. My research shows the closest genus to be Nyctibora, with no exact species match found there. It is one genus of the many cockroaches and you can see a list of it’s possible species on Wikipedia. I photographed this one on the grasses of the cow pasture across the street.
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One of, if not the most frequently seen butterflies this year for me (a down year for butterflies). See my collection of them in the gallery: Banded Peacock (linked). It is another of those butterflies found only in Central America and the lower edges of Mexico.
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What seems like everyone’s favorite butterfly, the Monarch (my gallery link), will probably be in my garden as long as I have these Milkweed Flowers, the favorite of the butterfly which also eats other nectar, but it is the only plant leaves that Monarch Caterpillars will eat! This one might even have come from one of those caterpillars that ate all the leaves off of one of my Milkweeds back in August! 🙂
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A fairly common and conspicuous sparrow found from Costa Rica to Mexico. See more of my photos of this little guy in the gallery: Stripe-headed Sparrow (linked).
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The Western and Eastern Wood-Pewees look alike to me and though iNat’s AI ranked this one as Eastern, eBird’s Merlin said Western and I yield to eBird on birds! 🙂 I saw this one on the fence of the neighborhood cow pasture and you can see others that I have labeled Western Wood-Pewee in that linked gallery.
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Not your every day bird! And I’ve seen more here in Atenas than anywhere. This one in my garden a week or so ago. See my other (better) photos in gallery: Barred Antshrike. And read more about them on eBird. It is found only in Central & South America.
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The first seen in my garden since December 2025, plus I saw one earlier the same day on my morning walk up the hill, but it was in bad light and thus no good photos. See my earlier photos at Lesson’s Motmot from different Costa Rica locations. This is another purely Central American bird with the usual overlaps into Southern Mexico.
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An unusual and brilliant Skipper that only a few of us have reported on iNaturalist. See my other photos in the gallery: Zilpa Longtail.
See how others have reported this species on iNaturalist and on BAMONA.
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This is my second time to see one of these fungi on a fence post across the street from me. I’m yet to give it a species name and no identifier on iNaturalist has yet, but I like it and will continue to photograph as I see new ones. The other one was in November 2025 and can be seen at this link: Fence Post Fungi and that time there was a little mushroom-type fungus below the disk-type fungus.
And of course I have a gallery for fungi: Just Fungi
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This Blue-vented Hummingbird (my gallery link) is right now in October more frequently seen than the usual dominant one, the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird.
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