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Birds at Corcovado & Drake Bay

Bird shots not shown in other posts from recent trip.
Bare-throated Tiger Heron
Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Scarlet Macaw
Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Great Curassow
Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Black-headed Trogon female
Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Lineated Woodpecker
Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Boat-billed Heron
Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Yellow-crowned Night Heron juvenile (no crown yet)
Mangrove Forest, Drake Bay, Costa Rica

Cherrie’s Tanager male
Aguila de Osa Inn, Drake Bay, Costa Rica

Black Vultures waiting for fish above high tide rocks
Aguila de Osa Inn, Drake Bay, Costa Rica

Bananaquit
Drake Bay, Costa Rica

Bananaquit
Drake Bay, Costa Rica

Great-tailed Grackle male
Aguila de Osa Inn, Drake Bay, Costa Rica

We saw some other birds but no good photos because of distance, trees, etc. I did not get any photos of new species for my collection on this trip as hoped. We did see toucans, parrots and many other birds but unable to photograph. Tomorrow I will share photos of other animals seen at Corcovado & Drake Bay.

About Corcovado National Park (Wikipedia)  and  About Drake Bay (Wikipedia)

My TRIPS Photo Gallery on this Drake Bay Trip

See also my BIRDS photo gallery

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More Birds from Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge

Beyond the nursery birds shown yesterday I photographed 17 other species at Juan Venado!

Black-headed Trogon
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
Black Vulture
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua

Great Egret
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
(See yesterday’s post for egrets in the nursery)
Great-tailed Grackle
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua

Green Heron
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua

Groove-billed Ani
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
Hoffman’s Woodpecker
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua

Little Blue Heron
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
Magnificent Frigate Bird Juvenile
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua

Mangrove Swallow
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua

Nicaraguan Grackle
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
Oriole Nest
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua

Osprey
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
Whimbrel
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
White Ibis
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua

Wilson’s Plover male
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
Yellow Warbler, Resident Male
Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge, Nicaragua
(The brown hood makes him a resident. Migrants are all yellow.)


And don’t miss my Nicaragua Birds photo gallery for 98 different species!

And remember that both my trips to Nicaragua were provided by Tours Nicaragua!  Check out what they offer! I’m very happy with them!

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3 Trogons in Nicaragua

Black-headed Trogon, Montibelli Reserve, Nicaragua
This one is very common in Montibelli and we saw many!
Elegant Trogon, Montibelli Reserve, Nicaragua

Gartered Trogon, Selva Negra Reserve, Nicaragua

Trogons are one of if not my favorite group of birds and my living room here has one wall of my bird photos, most being trogons. The rare Resplendent Quetzal is actually a Trogon, just the most colorful and different of them all. My collection is growing! 🙂

For those interested in the bird locations, it was a little surprising that we did not see a trogon in El Jaguar though I probably shot more total birds there. It is higher in the mountains and in theory could have a quetzal and other trogons, but we saw none there. 
In my Costa Rica Birds photo gallery I have only 3 Trogons plus the Resplendent Quetzal photos, which really makes it 4. And on my 2013-14 holidays tour of Panama I saw 4 Trogons but no quetzal, and we were still calling the gartered violaceous at that time. And here I’ve added 3 in Nicaragua. All total counting the Quetzal, I’ve photographed 9 different species of trogons in Central America and did not see any when in the Brazilian Amazon. 
See Wikipedia on Trogons where they say there are 39 species around the world with the most being in the neotropics (24) and 12 of those in Asia. The Costa Rica bird book lists 9 and Nicaragua’s 7.