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| The road approaching Montibelli Nature Reserve in Nicaragua Talk about a “Road Less Traveled!” A wonderful place! In dirt walls along the road were holes/nests of Turquoise-browed Motmots |
And I now have my photo gallery up for my Nicaragua Birding Trip 2016 with all birds labeled and most of the other photos, though still working on the labels. The above image is one.
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| Yellow-throated Vireo, Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Yellow-faced Grassquit, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| “Maybe” a migrant Yellow-bellied Flycatcher , El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
I first called it a “Bush Tanager” but an expert corrected me on it. |
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| Rose-breasted Grosbeak, El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua A really bad photo, but it does show I saw one! 🙂 |
Will I ever finish the Nicaragua birds? You may be asking that and I am getting closer to the end, but it is I believe the most different birds I have photographed on any trip, about 85 to 90 species. No exact count yet, but it beats my 2009 Costa Rica birding trip with about 50 species.
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| Smooth-billed Ani Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| White-winged Dove Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| White-tipped Dove Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua The difference from White-winged is the tail is tipped white |
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| Inca Dove Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Bronzed Cowbird Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Clay-colored Thrush Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Rufous-naped Wren Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Melodius Blackbird Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| Streak-headed Woodcreeper Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
Whew! It was a lot of birds! A wonderful trip!
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Or check out Cornell’s All About Birds website.
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| Orange-fronted Parakeets Montibelli Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| 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. |
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| White-fronted Parrot El Jaguar Nature Reserve, Nicaragua |
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| 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
