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Eating a tiny fish on Rio Tarcoles last week. See more of my photos of this species in the gallery: Amazon Kingfisher (linked).
The other Kingfisher we saw was a Green Kingfisher which I will share later as one of the many birds seen on the Tarcoles!
¡Pura Vida!
It’s a joy to watch these amazing birds dive lightening fast into the water from a tree branch to catch a small fish. Usually successfully! This Amazon Kingfisher is the biggest of these 4 Kingfishers that can be seen in Tortuguero waters (with links to my gallery of each):
Note that there are two other species of Kingfishers in Costa Rica, the Belted Kingfisher I’ve seen in other areas and the Green and Rufous Kingfisher which I am yet to see but the book says is on this Caribbean side of the country. Here’s photos from this trip of 1 male and 1 female Amazon Kingfisher which if you are still in the email notice you can see larger and better on the blog website, by clicking the blog title above.
¡Pura Vida!
And for more info and a location map of where found in only tropical Central and South America, see the eBird page.
BONUS READ
“Love thy neighbor (no exceptions)” article in the Friends Journal on simply following the example of Jesus. 🙂
There are 4 kinds of Kingfishers here at Maquenque and so far I’ve photographed 3 of those species. I’ve seen Green Kingfisher here before but not this week so far. Here’s the three species I’ve got with two shots of the Amazon because he looks different in each shot. CLICK image to enlarge.
See my Costa Rica Birds Gallery.
¡Pura Vida!
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| Mangrove Cuckoo Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Great Blue Heron (Running from A Caiman?) Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Black-collared Hawk Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Amazon Kingfisher male Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Sungrebe (non-breeding male) Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Neotropic Cormorant Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Black-necked Stilt Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Roseate Spoonbills Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica Could not get closer. We were not in the boat but walking in mud! |
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| Black-bellied Whistling Ducks Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
See Yesterday’s Post for the other 9 photos of birds there that I’m sharing, including a Squirrel Cuckoo and Laughing Falcon. Then Monday I shared only the Harris’s Hawk, maybe my favorite, which we saw driving back from Cañon Negro.
About Cañon Negro Wildlife Refuge (Wikipedia) Tomorrow some scenery & people there
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| Squirrel Cuckoo Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Anhinga female Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-throated Toucan Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Amazon Kingfisher female Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Boat-billed Heron Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Laughing Falcon Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Red-winged Blackbird Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
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| Social Flycatcher building a nest Cañon Negro, Costa Rica |
And 9 more tomorrow night, then we start on Tenorio and more from the lodge. Tomorrow (Wed.) I ride the buses back to Atenas.
And my Birds photo gallery
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| Tarcoles River before flowing into the Pacific Ocean, an hour+ drive from Atenas. Adjacent to Carara National Park, the last transitional rainforest in the Americas. Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-crowned Euphonia, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Amazon Kingfisher, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Boat-billed Heron, a better photo than shown first day. Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Royal Tern, Tarcoles River Mouth, Costa Rica |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Snowy Egret, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica (With trash all around him!) |
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| White-tailed Hawk, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Brown Basilisk (Striped Basilisk), Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Mangrove Crab, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Juvenile American Crocodile, Tarcoles, Costa Rica |
See also my Costa Rica Birds PHOTO GALLERY
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| Billed as a “Crocodile Tour” but we saw more than 20 species of birds too! Yeah, that’s me! See, Costa Rica hasn’t changed me much! |
I have a photo gallery with at least one photo of each of the 20+ birds and animals photographed in my PBase Gallery. Here are four more of those for the blog readers.
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| My new friend Barry in the photo op sign at Jose’s Crocodile Tour. He did one of me in this too! The tour guys get closer than this to crocs. |
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| Belted Kingfisher Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Little Blue Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
Maybe some more from Tarcoles tomorrow, or to see now hit this link to my PBase Gallery.