. . . and one with babies or juveniles – The Purple Gallinule and the Northern Jacana. One photo for the email announcement and two of each bird to follow.
2 Colorful Marsh Birds . . .
Juvenile Birds
It seems like maybe there have been more than a usual number of immature or juvenile birds this week, so I’m featuring 5 today. 🙂
Tomorrow morning, I go on a guided bird hike and expect to get a lot more above the 35 species I’ve photographed on my own so far. 🙂 Plus, I’m taking a tour of the farm where 85% of the restaurant food is raised and that will probably be tomorrow night’s post! ?
Here’s my 5 juvenile birds . . .
Maquenque Smaller Water Birds
Water birds are impressive and numerous all over Costa Rica with most of these found in all lowland waters on both the Pacific and Caribbean sides. I never tire of river trips or wetland visits because the surroundings are always changing and even though I see some of the same birds every time, they are never the same! At Maquenque I had both a river trip and lived for 5 days on lagoons that attract the same birds in these wetlands (el humedal en español) of the Caribbean Slopes of northern Costa Rica. A birding paradise!
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¡Pura Vida!
You may also enjoy my Costa Rica Birds Gallery
and my 2019 Maquenque Lodge Trip Gallery
See the lodge website: Maquenque Ecolodge
Soropta Canal Birds
Just a sample of the many kinds of birds we saw and I photographed on the old Snyder Canal for Banana Boats now called Soropta Canal for the nearby beach it parallels near the little town of Changuinola, Panama. A rich diversity of plants and wildlife are there!
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| Yellow-headed Caracara Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Groove-billed Anis Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Purple Gallinule Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Roadside Hawk Juvenile Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Black-bellied Whistling Duck Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Roseate Spoonbill Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
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| Snowy Egret (in the rain) Soropta Canal, Changuinola, Panama |
Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama
See my “Trip Gallery”:
2018 Tranquilo Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama
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