The Tropical Checkered Skipper, Burnsius Oileus (my gallery link) is found from the Gulf Coast of the U.S. south to Argentina.
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Tropical Checkered Skipper
White-winged Dove
One of my “regulars” here is the White-winged Dove, Zenaida asiatica (my gallery link). They are found from the southern half of the United States on south as far as Columbia in South America.
And by the way, the morning I wrote this post (Wed), I had a young Kee-billed Toucan in my Cecropia Tree, the first I’ve seen for awhile, but I did not have my camera with me and as I pulled out my cell phone, he flew away. But hopefully I will start getting toucan photos again! 🙂
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Hecale Longwing
Hecale Longwing, Heliconius Hecale (my gallery link) is found from Mexico south to the Peruvian Amazon, including my garden in Costa Rica! 🙂 My gallery includes sightings in 8 different Costa Rica locations on both slopes. Here’s a side view and a top view recently in my garden:
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Toucan Sighting with No Photo!
Have I told you yet that a Keel-billed Toucan landed in my Cecropia Tree the other morning after breakfast? He was smaller than some, so probably immature or not quite an adult. And it was one of the few mornings that I did not take my camera with me to breakfast on the terrace! I slowly pulled the cell phone out of my pocket and turned it on just as he flew away! Oh well, that’s life! ¡Así es la vida! 🙂 And my camera has been with me for breakfast every day since! 🙂
Giant Swallowtail
See more in my gallery: Giant Swallowtail. This one in my garden:
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Cloudless Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur, Phoebis sennae (my gallery link) is one of the fewer butterflies that are still hanging around my garden.
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Yigüirro or Clay-colored Thrush
The national bird of Costa Rica was thought by the indigenous people to sing in the rainy season at the end of the dry season, late April or May. It is the Clay-colored Thrush, Turdus grayi (my gallery link) and is found from South Texas throughout Central America and in Columbia. There are always Yigüirros in my garden. Read about on eBird.
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Great Kiskadee
Another regular visitor in my garden is the Great Kiskadee, Pitangus sulphuratus (my gallery link) is another common bird throughout Central and South America. Read more about him on eBird.
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Tropical Kingbird
I do still see birds in my garden even though the butterflies greatly outnumber them! 🙂 And of the four I am sharing these next four days, this is the least-seen of them: Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus (linked to my gallery) and as always, you can read more about them on eBird. They are seen throughout Central America and most of South America and are sometimes known as one of the “telephone wire birds: or “fence birds,” as they like open areas and catch flying insects, including my beloved butterflies. 🙂
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Tulcis Crescent
See more in my gallery of Tulcis Crescent, Anthanassa tulcis.
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Golden Melwhite
One of those beautiful butterflies with its simplicity I think, the Golden Melwhite, Melete polyhymnia (link to my Gallery).
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