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Lee Fife

Turns out I have a lot of pictures of birds in Costa Rica...

Highlighting some of them here. Of course, my photos have nothing on those from the pros, but some are pretty good considering they're all taken with my cell phone, often thru a guide's scope.

Starting from a trip to the Dota region we took in 2019.

First up, a Silver Throated Tanager

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A small mostly yellow bird looking towards the camera. It has a bright yellow head and underside, with a white collar, and wings with black and yellow streaks
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The same small bird looking to the left. Gives us a good view of its "silver throat".
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A Flame-colored Tanager.

From the Dota region, 2019

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A bright red bird with long gray tail feathers
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The bright red bird with its head to the side so it can see us and we can see its eye.
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And of course, the Resplendent Quetzal

Dota region, 2019

More pix here: universeodon.com/@colo_lee/109

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An amazing bird with a scarlet underside and neon blue/green feathers holding a small wild avocado fruit in its mouth
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Rufous Collared Sparrow
Dota Region 2019.

In the second picture, you can see a wild avocado fruit in the upper right. These sparrows were in the same tree as the quetzals.

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A small brown bird seen in the midst of branches. The bird is turned sideways and we can see its gray body and its red/brown neck.
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The same small brown bird with a red/brown neck. At the far right is a small green fruit with a reddish stem -- this is a wild avocado fruit.
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Spot-crowned Euphonia
Manuel Antonio area, 2021

We saw this bird one morning while walking around the grounds of our lodge.

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A bird standing on a green branch of a plant. The bird has a yellow underside with blue back and wings. The blue continues around the bird's throat and up its head. At the top of its head is a yellow spot. It has a red fruit in its mouth.
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the same bird turned slightly away from us. It's blue black feathers shine in the early morning light.
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Green Honeycreeper
Rivas area, 2021

As a naive "birder", it took me a while to believe that this obviously blue bird was the Green Honeycreeper while another obviously green bird wasn't "Green" but rather the Emerald Honeycreeper ...

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a bright blue bird sits in the crook of several moss-covered branches. We can see rainforest trees in the background. The bird has a black head and a curved slightly yellow beak.
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Another view of the bird nestled in the trees.
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Northern-emerald Toucanet
Rivas area, 2021

A lot of places attract human visitors by offering us food and the chance to watch a backyard fruit buffet for the birds. Makes us all happy ...

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A long beaked bird stands on a bamboo pole, waiting for its turn the fruit buffet. The bird is mostly green, with a white border between its head and its beak. The beak is curved and strong for cracking nuts.
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Another view of the toucanet, with its head turned towards us.
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And here's the Emerald Honeycreeper
Rivas area, 2021

This little bird flew in to join us for Tai Chi practice one morning.

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A bright bird sitting on top of a wall, glowing in the sunrise light. In this picture, it really does look emerald.
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The bird sitting on the floor looking at us. Its judgmental expression indicates it thinks we could be doing better Tai Chi.
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bored with our practice, the bird bends down towards the floor and shuts its eyes for a little nap.
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one wall of the studio where we were practicing. A buddha is set into a nook in the wall. The wall stops at about waist height and you can see beyond to the foothills of the Talamanca mountains.
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Fiery-billed Aracari
Osa Peninsula, 2021

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A large bird in a tree. The bird has a long beak, similar to a toucan's (they're close relatives). The beak starts green, goes through yellow, and ends up bright red at the tip. The bird's chest is yellow with a bright red horizontal stripe across it.
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The same bird stretching one of its wings open and using its bill to scratch and pick nits. Its eye is ringed in red.
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Golden-browed Chlorophonia
Dota region, 2019

Bird eating a peach: the peach was whole when we watched the chlorophonia arrive -- it ate most of the peach in the 15 mins we were watching. It looked tasty.

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Bird sitting on a peach. The bird has a bright green head, a blue collar and a yellow and green body. It's sitting on top of the peach it's just begun to eat.
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The same bird looking at the peach, getting ready to peck some more of the peach. We can see a bright blue spot on the top of the bird's head.
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The bird is completely bent over, reaching to the underside of the peach to eat more. Its long neck almost makes the bird look like some kind of snake.
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Lineated Woodpecker
Osa Peninsula, 2021

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A large woodpecker with a bright red crest on its head. The bird is turned so we can see its long beak.
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The same bird getting ready to dig into the tree to find some bugs.
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Great Curassow
Osa Peninsula, 2021

The black ones are the males, the brown ones the females. Surprisingly large bird. Only found now in protected areas -- they've been hunted out of existence anywhere they're not protected.

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Two curassows near a palm tree. The birds are bent over picking up fruits to eat. One bird is brown with a stripped tail. The other is black with a white underside.
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A male curassow picking fruits from a cluster on a palm tree. You see its head stretched up to the cluster of fruit.
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a female, brown, curassow in a cluster of small plants.
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a brown curassow with its head turned so we can see its crest.
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Red-lored Parrot
Osa Peninsula, 2021

These parrots fly in large, very noisy flocks.

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A bright green parrot sitting in a tree. The parrot has a curved beak and a red spot on its head just above the beak.
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Another view of the bird, this time, looking over its shoulder. You can see the two parts of its beak clearly, top part curving over the lower.
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Roadside Hawk
Manuel Antonio, today

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A striking hawk with bright eyes, a hooked beak, and blue gray feathers
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The same hawk, showing the tree it's perched on
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Blue-throated Goldentail,
Nesting hummingbird
Manuel Antonio, today

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A hummingbird with head and tail visible sitting in its nest
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