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| Montezuma Oropendola El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Montezuma Oropendola El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Montezuma Oropendola Lake Nicaragua near Granada |
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| Montezuma Oropendola Nests Lake Nicaragua near Granada |
About Montezuma Oropendola on Cornell’s NeotropicalBirds site where you can listen to them sing their unusual bubbly sound.
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| Unknown Bird Nest with eggs El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Tropical Kingbird nesting in air-plant on tree Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
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| Tropical Kingbird Male Standing guard by the nest Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
AND THE THIRD BIRD NEST is in the above post on Montezuma Oropendola, most unusual!
Myths About Nesting Birds on Cornell’s “All About Birds” site
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| Purple Gallinule Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Common Gallinule Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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Common Gallinule
Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua
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| American Coot Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| American Coot Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
About the Purple Gallinule on Cornell’s “All About Birds”
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| Northern Jacana Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Mangrove Swallow Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Spotted or Stilt Sandpiper Coloring most like stilt (in book) but legs and beak seem short. Juvenile? Or could it be a Western or Least Sandpiper? Pectoral? Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Tricolored Heron Flying, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua See another Tricolor on my Herons Post |
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| Laughing Gull Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua See another one on my April 1 Post, sitting on a post |
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| Neotropic Cormorant Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Neotropic Cormorant Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Neotropic Cormorant Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
About Northern Jacana on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site
About Mangrove Swallow on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site
About Sandpipers on Wikipedia
About Tricolored Herons on Cornell’s “About Birds” site
About Laughing Gull on Cornell’s “About Birds” site
About Neotropic Cormorant on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site
And in my photo galleries of Costa Rica Birds:
Northern Jacana – Mangrove Swallow – Spotted Sandpiper – Pectoral Sandpiper – Neotropic Cormorant
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| Common Potoo Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Common Potoo Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
This is one of the coolest birds in Central America that I’ve seen only three times and good photographs only twice now. Notice especially in the first photo how he could be mistaken for part of the tree, a broken limb, stump, etc. It is an interesting disguise that keeps a lot of birders and others from ever seeing him, including predators. My other good photograph was in Panama, a Panama City Park of all places! We saw one on Rio Frio at Los Chiles, Costa Rica but the two photos are not good. Now I need a good one in Costa Rica! 🙂
About the Common Potoo on Cornell’s NeotropicalBirds
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| Osprey Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Gray Hawk
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Swallowtail Kite El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Turkey Vulture Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Black Vulture Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| White Chinese Goose Selva Negra Mountain Resort |
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| White Chinese Goose Selva Negra Mountain Resort |
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| Cinnamon Hummingbird, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Rufous-tailed Hummingbird El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Violet Saberwing Hummingbird El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Long-billed Hermit Hummingbird El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
The lodges in Nicaragua don’t emphasis hummingbirds as much as they do in Costa Rica where you find almost too many feeders. Most of these were found because of flowers that attracted them, all but the Violet Saberwing above. We saw others but these are all I photographed.
Or check out Cornell’s All About Birds website.
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| Orange-fronted Parakeets Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Pacific Parakeets, Chocoyero-El Brujo Natural Reserve Ticuantepe, Nicaragua Hundreds of parakeets fly in every evening to nest in the holes in a high rock wall. |
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| White-fronted Parrot El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| White-crowned Parrot El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua He was actually greener than this shows. Late afternoon light/shadows do funny things in photos. |
About Parrots on Wikipedia
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| From our boat we see a falcon with a duck. Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| The Peregrine Falcon lands with his Blue-winged Teal We thought he would eat it there but . . . Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Not liking us to watch I guess, he takes off again with the dead duck. While flying over the water he drops the duck. Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Blue-winged Teal picked up by my guide, Moises Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Many flocks of Blue-winged Teal on lake around us and . . . Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Flying by us with Mombacho Volcano in background: Blue-winged Teal Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
One never knows what serendipity encounter you will have with wildlife when walking or boating in the wilderness! But it seemed to happen frequently in Nicaragua, a very good trip!
“It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold
About Blue-winged Teal on Cornell’s “All About Birds” site
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| Snowy Egret flies in to Tricolored Heron Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
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| Little Blue Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Green Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Tricolored Heron, Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Snowy Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Snowy Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Great Egret, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
The end of a thing is better than its beginning; The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.