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Birds Seen Wednesday

Chestnut-backed Antbird
Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Yellow-throated Toucan 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Yellow-throated Toucan 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica
Masked Tityra, male & female building a nest 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

White-tipped Dove 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Red-lored Parrot
Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Scarlet-rumped Cacique
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Scarlet-rumped Cacique
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Golden-hooded Tanager 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

White-shouldered Tanager 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Dusky-capped Flycatcher 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Clay-colored Thrush
Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Chestnut-sided Warbler 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

Charming Hummingbird 
 Danta Corcovado Lodge, Costa Rica

These are in no particular order, just as they came out of the camera. This was my main activity today. Tomorrow I go to the national park for most of the day. My only new species today are the White-shouldered Tanager and the Scarlet-rumped Cacique.

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Honeycreepers & Dacnis

These are the little seedeaters that are related to Tanagers and mostly smaller than other tanagers.

Red-legged Honeycreeper male
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica

Green Honeycreeper female
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica
Green Honeycreeper male
Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion Sarapiquí, La Virgen, Costa Rica

Golden Hooded Tanager
Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion Sarapiquí, La Virgen, Costa Rica

Bananaquit
Dave & Dave’s Nature Pavilion Sarapiquí, La Virgen, Costa Rica

Blue Dacnis, male & female  (inset is a male, female is mostly green)
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
Selva Verde Lodge Sarapiquí, Chilamate, Costa Rica

I am grouping  birds together the way they are together in the CR Bird Guide.

See also my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds

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My 8 Tanagers in Nicaragua

Of course there are many more tanagers in Nicaragua, but this is what I photographed:

Golden-hooded Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
Note in next photo how different the same bird can look!
Golden-hooded Tanager, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua
I know it looks a little different, but is the same species as above.
Crimson-collared Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
Yellow-winged Tanager, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua
Summer Tanager, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
Yellow-crowned Euphonia, Selva Negra Mountain Resort, Nicaragua
Passerini’s Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
Gray-headed Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
Blue-gray Tanager, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua

Sorry for a repeat of the Crimson-collared Tanager, but this tanager collection wouldn’t be complete without it and it is my favorite shot of the whole trip as stated earlier! And apologies for some pretty poor photos here, but my bird collection is primary over photo quality.  🙂

I am really pleased with this collection of 8 different species of tanagers in Nicaragua since I only have 3 species in my Costa Rica Birds collection! Soon there will be a separate photo gallery of my Nicaragua birds and I’ll eventually do the same for Panama, Guatemala and Mexico.  A Central America collection!  🙂
Read About Tanagers on Wikipedia where you will learn it is the largest family of neotropical birds with about 240 or 12% of all our birds down here! Many are very colorful!