One of the most common birds in my garden is this Rufous-backed Wren, Campylorhynchus capistratus (my gallery link) and this one used to be called the Rufous-naped Wren, but just like with butterflies, “they” are always changing names of birds, making it hard to keep up with the latest names sometimes. Here’s a shot of one on my neighbor’s roof. And you can read about them on eBird. Found only from Southern Mexico south through Costa Rica.
¡Pura Vida!
Oh – you mean “Chicos”? 😁 that’s what our one of our helpers call them and it’s so much easier to say than Rufous backed wren. We miss our chickadees from up north and we think of them as our chickadee replacement. Fun to watch when they arrive in families.
¡Si Señor!” and I probably would improve my blog if I included the local Spanish “Common Names” like Chico, Chico piojo, y Botijón. Most of these are included in the now rather old Costa Rica Spanish birds book, Aves de Costa Rica, along with the “official” Spanish name, which for this bird is “Soterrey Nuquirrufo.” Since iNaturalist Costa Rica is all in Spanish you can see other names there for all species of everything, plant and animal! 🙂 I’m just getting acquainted with iNaturalist and starting to post sightings with them along with eBird & butterfliesandmoths. It is a massive database of all nature and like the others, made by volunteers.
And by the way, though many North American birds migrate down here in the cold months, Chickadees are not one of those and not included in any of the CR bird books.
No. I dont believe chickadees migrate south. They were one of our winter joys in New Hampshire.I think we averaged 4 or 5 , 50 pound bags of black sunflower seeds every winter. Primarily for chickadees.