Category: Conservation
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BOAT-BILLED HERON – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Boat-billed Heron is a bizarre nocturnal heron of mangroves and freshwater marshes in tropical lowlands; spends the daytime roosting in trees.
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FASCIATED TIGER-HERON – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Fasciated Tiger-Heron is a medium-sized heron and is often seen along fast-flowing rocky rivers and streams, usually at higher elevations than other tiger-herons.
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BROWN PELICAN – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Brown Pelican is a permanent resident of the coastal marine environment from central North America southward to northern South America.
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NEOTROPIC CORMORANT – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Neotropic Cormorant has a black body. Immatures have dark brown breast. Orange facial skin comes to a point and is bordered by thin white line.
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ANHINGA – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Anhinga is among the most distinctive of North American birds, with long, snakelike neck, straight bill, large fanlike tail resembling that of a turkey
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MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRD – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Magnificent Frigatebird is a massive seabird of warm tropical oceans and coastlines.
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WOOD STORK – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Huge, long-legged, black-and-white waterbird, about the size of Great Blue Heron. White body with black flight feathers. Adults have a wrinkly bald head and fairly dark bill; juveniles have paler bill and more messy feathering on head and neck. Bill is thicker and more curved than herons. Forages mainly for…
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SUNBITTERN – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
One of the most dazzling of all the world’s birds; the intricate yellow, red, and black pattern on the spread wings is truly otherworldly. When standing, rather heronlike shape but with a more horizontal posture and longer tail. Also look for striped black-and-white head and barred back. Found singly or…
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ROYAL TERN – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Royal Tern is a large tern, found strictly in coastal areas.
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ELEGANT TERN – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Elegant Tern is a long-billed tern of the Pacific coast, from the U.S. to Chile.
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