Yesterday I shared photos of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron and today the other 4 herons I photographed last week on Rio Tarcoles. A very good birding river! 🙂
And 4 More Herons on Rio Tarcoles
More Birds from Tarcoles River Trip
Arranged in the order presented in the book The Birds of Costa Rica, A Field Guide by Garrigues & Dean which puts families and similar birds together.
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| Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great Blue Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great Blue Heron in an Interesting Posture Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Cattle Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Snowy Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-crowned Night Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great Egret (left) and Whimbrel (right) Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Whimbrel Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Spotted Sandpiper Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Mangrove Swallow Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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Groove-billed Ani
Tarcoles River, Costa Rica
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| Ringed Kingfisher Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow Warbler, resident male with orange head Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
And did you see the Birds in Flight posted yesterday? Including 3 more species not included here.
Plus note that we saw a lot more birds than what I included here, just my only decent photos!
AND this was my first time to go to and from Tarcoles on public bus. Cheap & fun! Going down was a breeze, but we got wrong info on our return bus and ended up going through San Jose, but oh well, all part of the adventure! 🙂
Trip Photo Gallery: 2017-07-29- Tarcoles River
All of my photo galleries on Birds or just Costa Rica Birds
And the boat tour company we used: Jungle Crocodile Safari
Pura Vida from Costa Rica!
~Charlie
~Charlie
Cañon Negro Birds, Part 2
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| Mangrove Cuckoo Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Great Blue Heron (Running from A Caiman?) Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Black-collared Hawk Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Amazon Kingfisher male Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Sungrebe (non-breeding male) Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Neotropic Cormorant Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Black-necked Stilt Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
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| Roseate Spoonbills Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica Could not get closer. We were not in the boat but walking in mud! |
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| Black-bellied Whistling Ducks Cañon Negro Reserve, Costa Rica |
See Yesterday’s Post for the other 9 photos of birds there that I’m sharing, including a Squirrel Cuckoo and Laughing Falcon. Then Monday I shared only the Harris’s Hawk, maybe my favorite, which we saw driving back from Cañon Negro.
About Cañon Negro Wildlife Refuge (Wikipedia) Tomorrow some scenery & people there
Or for more of my general photos see the gallery Charlie Doggett’s COSTA RICA
So far, every new trip I make in Costa Rica yields at least one new species of birds photo for me. And this trip was no exception! On this post the new ones for me are the Mangrove Cuckoo and Black-collared Hawk. And new ones the last two days were the Harris’s Hawk and Laughing Falcon! Four more species added to my collection this week! Not bad!
And that collection is my Birds photo gallery
Herons, Egrets & Ibis at Sarapiquí
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| Bare-throated Tiger Heron Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Little Blue Heron Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Great Blue Heron Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Green Ibis Puerto Viejo & Sarapiquí Rivers, Costa Rica |
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| Cattle Egret Flying over Sarapiquí River, Selva Verde Lodge, Chilamate, Costa Rica Evening flight to roosting tree. |
I did two boat trips from the town of Puerto Viejo on the two rivers that merge near there, the Sarapiqui River and the Puerto Viejo River. The afternoon trip was not bad but the morning trip had more birds and they were somewhat different birds the two times.
See also my Photo Gallery of Costa Rica Birds
Tarcoles Birds, Post 2 of 2
Post 1 was yesterday with 14 more photos of birds only. We used the Jungle Crocodile Safari for this visit and saw more birds than any other tour provided so far. The 8:30 AM tour. Presented in order of camera image numbers – I’m getting lazy! 🙂 We saw about 35 species of birds and I got somewhat decent photos of about 24. We saw one Scarlet Macaw, but no photo of it behind leaves.
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| Boat-billed Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Willet Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Bronzed Cowbird (most likely for this area, though others similar) Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Spotted Sandpiper Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Spotted Sandpiper (juvenile, thus no spots) Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow Warbler Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Mangrove Hummingbird Tarcoles River, Costa Rica (Not really this fat, he just fluffed out his feathers) |
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| Little Blue Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Panama Flycatcher Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Wood Stork Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Tricolor Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird female Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird males, juvenile Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
And my constantly growing BIRDS Photo Gallery online
Tarcoles Birds – Post 1 of 2
I chose 28 photos of 24 species of birds I want to show the world, so here is the first 14, in no particular order other than camera numbering or in the order taken. 14 more tomorrow!
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| Roseate Spoonbill Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Roseate Spoonbill Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Rufous-naped Wren Tarcoles River, Costa Rica (This is the most common bird in my garden/yard. They’re in the wild too!) |
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| Great Blue Heron with Fish Just Caught Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great Blue Heron Flying with Black-necked Stilt Flying Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Black-necked Stilt Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Solitary Sandpiper Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Green Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Great-tailed Grackle male Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Snowy Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Whimbrel Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Cattle Egret Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Yellow-crowned Night Heron Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
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| Osprey with Fish! Tarcoles River, Costa Rica |
These photos were all made by me on a 16 December 2016 float trip on the Tarcoles River, Costa Rica, this time with the Jungle Crocodile Safari which specializes in bird watching as opposed to a focus on crocodiles on most of the other companies. I also like Jose and the Jose’s Crocodile Tour, but his one finds more birds for you, about 35 species this trip, and provides a flyer for photo-identification of the birds. Plus if you take the 8:30 AM tour you will see more birds early AND you miss the tour bus crowds. There were just 4 of us plus our guide on our boat this time at 8:30 and when we returned we noticed that the next boat was packed full!
14 more bird photos tomorrow from this same trip.
And my constantly growing BIRDS Photo Gallery online