Of course with all those photos, I had to make a book! It is mostly birds but includes culture photos of Granada, people, Semana Santa, and interesting roadside shots across the country. You can click on the image above and electronically thumb through the book for free. No purchase required! 🙂
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| Yellow-throated Vireo, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow-faced Grassquit, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| “Maybe” a migrant Yellow-bellied Flycatcher , El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
I first called it a “Bush Tanager” but an expert corrected me on it. |
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| Rose-breasted Grosbeak, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua A really bad photo, but it does show I saw one! 🙂 |
Will I ever finish the Nicaragua birds? You may be asking that and I am getting closer to the end, but it is I believe the most different birds I have photographed on any trip, about 85 to 90 species. No exact count yet, but it beats my 2009 Costa Rica birding trip with about 50 species.
Last of Birds from El Jaguar, Nicaragua
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| Black-headed Saltator El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Bushy-crested Jay El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Baltimore Oriole El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Clay-colored Thrush El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Great-tailed Grackle El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
El Jaguar Nature Reserve was a great place for birding, maybe the best yet!
Warblers from Nicaragua Trip
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| Magnolia Warbler Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow Warbler Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow Warbler El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Wilson’s Warbler El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Wilson’s Warbler El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Notice that I included two photos of the Yellow Warbler and two of the Wilson’s Warbler. You will with this see how different the same species can look at first glance. Age, gender and other factors can influence a “different look” for birds of the same species.
About Warblers on Easy Science for Kids
Flycatchers in Nicaragua
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| Great Kiskadee, Lake Nicaragua |
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| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Lake Nicaragua |
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| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Lake Nicaragua |
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| Common Tody Flycatcher, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Social Flycatcher El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Dusky-capped Flycatcher, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
See my gallery of Nicaragua Birds
About Flycatchers on Cornell’s “All About Birds” that redirects you to each species page
Montezuma Oropendola in Nicaragua
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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.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Found 3 Bird-nests in Nicaragua
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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
About Tropical Kingbird on Cornell’s “All About Birds” site
My shots of Tropical Kingbirds in Costa Rica from my yard and a spot near Turrialba
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
~Albert Einstein
Some More BIG BIRDS in Nicaragua
I’ve already done posts on the Peregrine Falcon, Highland Guan, Egrets & Herons, a Limpkin, and Toucans which are all kind of big too! 🙂
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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 |
Hummingbirds in Nicaragua
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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.
My Costa Rica Birds and my Nicaragua Birds PHOTO GALLERIES! 🙂
Or check out Cornell’s All About Birds website.
Parrots & Parakeets in Nicaragua
All are too high or far away for my camera to get a good photo, but here they are:
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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
And since the Pacific Parakeet was a new one for me. I read this paragraph on Wikipedia and learned that El Chocoyero is the only place any of them live now, so a rare parakeet also called Nicaraguan green conure. Wow! I live close to a lot of cool places! And really glad I spent a week in Nicaragua not only because I got photos of about 85 species of birds but I love the place now!