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Warblers from Nicaragua Trip

Magnolia Warbler
Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua

Yellow Warbler
Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

Yellow Warbler
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

Wilson’s Warbler
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

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
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Flycatchers in Nicaragua

Great Kiskadee, Lake Nicaragua

 

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Lake Nicaragua

 

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Lake Nicaragua

 

Common Tody Flycatcher, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

 

Social Flycatcher
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

 

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

 

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Montezuma Oropendola in Nicaragua

Montezuma Oropendola 
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
Montezuma Oropendola 
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

Montezuma Oropendola 
Lake Nicaragua near Granada

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
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Found 3 Bird-nests in Nicaragua

Unknown Bird Nest with eggs
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Costa Rica

Tropical Kingbird nesting in air-plant on tree
Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua

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
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Coots and Gallinules! Nicaragua!

Some of the more interesting water birds are coots and gallinules in the same family:

Purple Gallinule
Lake Nicaragua at Granada

Common Gallinule
Lake Nicaragua at Granada
Common Gallinule
Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua

American Coot
Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua

American Coot
Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua

About the Purple Gallinule on Cornell’s “All About Birds”

About the Common Gallinule on Cornell’s “All About Birds”

About the American Coot on Cornell’s “All About Birds”

“Maybe one day I could fly all over the world and meet other interesting birds.” 
― Jarod Kintz
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More Water Birds from Nicaragua

Northern Jacana
Lake Nicaragua at Granada

Mangrove Swallow
Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua
Spotted or Stilt Sandpiper
Coloring most like stilt (in book) but legs and beak seem short. Juvenile?
Or could it be a Western or Least Sandpiper? Pectoral?
Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua
Tricolored Heron Flying, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua
See another Tricolor on my Herons Post

Laughing Gull
Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua
See another one on my April 1 Post, sitting on a post

Neotropic Cormorant

Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua
Neotropic Cormorant

Lake Nicaragua at Granada

Neotropic Cormorant

Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua

About Northern Jacana on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site

About Mangrove Swallow on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site

About Sandpipers on Wikipedia

About Tricolored Herons on Cornell’s “About Birds” site

About Laughing Gull on Cornell’s “About Birds” site

About Neotropic Cormorant on Cornell’s “Neotropic Birds” site

And in my photo galleries of Costa Rica Birds:
Northern Jacana   –   Mangrove Swallow   –   Spotted Sandpiper   –   Pectoral Sandpiper   –   Neotropic Cormorant

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Is it a Bird or a Tree Limb?

Common Potoo
Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

Common Potoo
Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

This is one of the coolest birds in Central America that I’ve seen only three times and good photographs only twice now. Notice especially in the first photo how he could be mistaken for part of the tree, a broken limb, stump, etc. It is an interesting disguise that keeps a lot of birders and others from ever seeing him, including predators. My other good photograph was in Panama, a Panama City Park of all places! We saw one on Rio Frio at Los Chiles, Costa Rica but the two photos are not good. Now I need a good one in Costa Rica!  🙂

About the Common Potoo on Cornell’s NeotropicalBirds

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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!  🙂

Osprey

Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua

Gray Hawk 

El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

Swallowtail Kite
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

Turkey Vulture

Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua

Black Vulture

Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua

White Chinese Goose
Selva Negra Mountain Resort
White Chinese Goose
Selva Negra Mountain Resort
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Hummingbirds in Nicaragua

Cinnamon Hummingbird, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

 

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

 

Violet Saberwing Hummingbird 
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

 

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.

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Parrots & Parakeets in Nicaragua

All are too high or far away for my camera to get a good photo, but here they are:

Orange-fronted Parakeets
Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

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.

White-fronted Parrot
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

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!