Light Gallery - Costa Rica - March 2008
Black-capped Flycatcher (Empidonax atriceps)
Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus gracilirostris)
Cerro de la Muerte
White-throated Mountain-Gem (Lampornis cinereicauda)
Male
White-throated Mountain-Gem (Lampornis cinereicauda)
Female
Magnificent Hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens)
Volcano Hummingbird (Selasphorus flammula)
Bus Off the Road
On the way back from Savegre, the roadside gave way
Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
Rio Tarcoles
Rio Tarcoles
Mangrove Swamps, Rio Tarcoles
In the dry season
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)
Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)
Whip Scorpion Spider
Hacienda Solimar
Ranchland, Hacienda Solimar
Pacific Screech Owl (Megascops cooperi)
Las Salinas (saltworks) at Conchal
Evening at Hacienda Solimar
Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni)
Mount Arenal Volcano
Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
The males develop orange skin during the breeding season
Golden Orb Spider
Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)
A completely leucistic bird next to a normal one. This photograph was taken at some distance from a boat on the Rio Sarapiqui
Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)
A completely leucistic individual
Rio Sarapiqui
Orb Spider sp.
Braulio Carilo National Park
forest floor, Braulio Carilo National Park
Pastureland at Puente de Chilamate
Strawberry Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates pumilo)
Commonly called the 'Blue Jeans' frog
Harlequin Beetle (Acrocinus longimanus)
Found in the Biological Research Station at La Selva. This individual was over 30cms long.
Plumed Basilisk (Basilicus plumifrons)
Fer de Lance Viper (Bothrops asper)
Small but deadly!
Black-throated Trogon (Trogon rufus)
Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor)
This was a relatively small specimen, measuring about 6ft. from head to tail tip.
Great Tinamou (Tinamus major)
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