2. Birds - Aves

Birds - Central America

Very few groups of animals can rival birds for the color palette they display. I'm lobbying for a new color called: Honeycreeper Green. And the bats...? They're just too cool not to include.
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Blue-gray Tanagers (<I>Thraupis episcopus</i>) are neither blue nor gray; talk amongst yourselves...
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Blue-gray Tanagers (Thraupis episcopus) are neither blue nor gray; talk amongst yourselves...

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  • White-necked Jacobin (<i>Florisuga mellivora</i>) Rara Avis Rainforest Reserve, Costa Rica
  • Green-crowned Brilliant (<i>Heliodoxa jacula</i>) Rara Avis, Costa Rica
  • Blue-gray Tanagers (<I>Thraupis episcopus</i>) are neither blue nor gray; talk amongst yourselves...
  • Red-legged Honeycreepers (<i>Cyanerpes cyaneus</i>) Gamboa, Panama
  • As if this flamboyant looking bird needed to show off any more color, it has a pair of bright red legs! Red-legged Honeycreeper (<I>Cyanerpes cyaneus</i>)
  • Yellow-tailed Oriole (<i>Icterus mesomelas</i>) from just outside the famous Pipeline Road in Gamboa, Panama.
  • Black-throated Trogon (<i>Trogon rufus</i>) Rara Avis, Costa Rica
  • Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (<i>Ramphastos swainsonii</i>) Dominical, Costa Rica
  • Keel-billed Toucan out foraging in the rain at the Rara Avis Rainforest Reserve in Costa Rica
  • Crimson-backed Tanager (<i>Ramphocelus dimidiatus</i>) from Gamboa, Panama
  • Shining Honeycreeper (<i>Cyanerpes lucidus</i>) Gamboa, Panama
  • Rufous-tailed Hummingbird<br /> Gamboa, Panama
  • Costa Rica's national bird, the Clay-colored Robin (<i>Turdus grayi</i>)
  • Ruddy-breated Seedeater (<i>Sporophila mintua</i>) from just outside the legendary Pipeline Road in Gamboa, Panama. This specimen is a male.
  • The Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant (<i>Lophotriccus pileatus</i>) gets placed in my top five favorite bird species found in Costa Rica. This minute individual pictured here is a mature male.
  • Ruddy-breasted Seedeater (<i>Sporophila mintua</i>) has a song that is described as a "deliberate series of sweet whistles".
  • Blue-gray Tanager (<i>Thraupis episcopus</i>) Gamboa, Panama
  • This pint-sized tyranid is the Tufted Flycatcher (<i>Mitrephanes phaeocercus</i>)
  • Cherrie's Tanager (<I>Ramphocelus costaricensis</i>), female
  • Cherrie's Tanager (<I>Ramphocelus costaricensis</i>), male
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