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| Long-tailed Manakin Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua This shot shows his face best while the next his colors |
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About Long-tailed Manakin on
Warblers from Nicaragua Trip
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| Magnolia Warbler Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow Warbler Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow Warbler El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Wilson’s Warbler El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| 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
Flycatchers in Nicaragua
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| Great Kiskadee, Lake Nicaragua |
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| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Lake Nicaragua |
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| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Lake Nicaragua |
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| Common Tody Flycatcher, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Social Flycatcher El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| 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
Montezuma Oropendola in Nicaragua
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| Montezuma Oropendola El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Montezuma Oropendola El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Montezuma Oropendola Lake Nicaragua near Granada |
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| 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
Found 3 Bird-nests in Nicaragua
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| Unknown Bird Nest with eggs El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Tropical Kingbird nesting in air-plant on tree Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua |
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| 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
Coots and Gallinules! Nicaragua!
Some of the more interesting water birds are coots and gallinules in the same family:
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| Purple Gallinule Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Common Gallinule Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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Common Gallinule
Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua
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| American Coot Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| 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
More Water Birds from Nicaragua
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| Northern Jacana Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| Mangrove Swallow Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| 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 |
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| Tricolored Heron Flying, Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua See another Tricolor on my Herons Post |
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| Laughing Gull Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua See another one on my April 1 Post, sitting on a post |
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| Neotropic Cormorant Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Neotropic Cormorant Lake Nicaragua at Granada |
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| 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
Is it a Bird or a Tree Limb?
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| Common Potoo Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| 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
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! 🙂
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| Osprey Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Gray Hawk
El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Swallowtail Kite El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Turkey Vulture Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| Black Vulture Lake Apanas, Jinotega, Nicaragua |
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| White Chinese Goose Selva Negra Mountain Resort |
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| White Chinese Goose Selva Negra Mountain Resort |
Hummingbirds in Nicaragua
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| Cinnamon Hummingbird, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Rufous-tailed Hummingbird El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Violet Saberwing Hummingbird El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| 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.