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It seems like maybe there have been more than a usual number of immature or juvenile birds this week, so I’m featuring 5 today. 🙂
Tomorrow morning, I go on a guided bird hike and expect to get a lot more above the 35 species I’ve photographed on my own so far. 🙂 Plus, I’m taking a tour of the farm where 85% of the restaurant food is raised and that will probably be tomorrow night’s post! ?
Here’s my 5 juvenile birds . . .
Water birds are impressive and numerous all over Costa Rica with most of these found in all lowland waters on both the Pacific and Caribbean sides. I never tire of river trips or wetland visits because the surroundings are always changing and even though I see some of the same birds every time, they are never the same! At Maquenque I had both a river trip and lived for 5 days on lagoons that attract the same birds in these wetlands (el humedal en español) of the Caribbean Slopes of northern Costa Rica. A birding paradise!
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¡Pura Vida!
You may also enjoy my Costa Rica Birds Gallery
and my 2019 Maquenque Lodge Trip Gallery
See the lodge website: Maquenque Ecolodge
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| Yellow-headed Caracara Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Groove-billed Anis Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Purple Gallinule Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Roadside Hawk Juvenile Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Black-bellied Whistling Duck Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Roseate Spoonbill Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Snowy Egret (in the rain) Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
See my “Trip Gallery”:
2018 Tranquilo Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama
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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
I still haven’t processed all the bird photos from the 2-hour, pre-breakfast float on Tarcoles River last Saturday morning. Maybe I’ll finish them tomorrow, a week after the trip to a favorite place!
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| Boat-billed Heron, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Cerulean Warbler, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Mealy Parrot, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great Egret, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica (I’ve many photos of them, but none like this front view) |
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| Ringed Kingfisher, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| White Ibis hanging out with Black Vultures, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Black Vulture, Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |