Category: Costa Rica Birds
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PRONG-BILLED BARBET – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Prong-billed Barbet is restricted to the moss and epiphyte-laden cloud-forest along the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and western Panama.
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RUFOUS-TAILED JACAMAR – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Rufous-tailed Jacamar is a beautiful inhabitant of forest edges and clearings of Central and South America.
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WHITE-WHISKERED PUFFBIRD – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The White-whiskered Puffbird inhabits humid evergreen forests and shady forest edges from southeastern Mexico to Ecuador. Unlike most other species of puffbird, the White-whiskered shows noticeable differences in plumage between the sexes with males showing strong rufous tones to the face and chest.
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GREEN KINGFISHER – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Small kingfisher with disproportionately long bill. Dark glossy green above with white throat, collar, and spots on wings. Tail often held cocked up. White outer tail feathers spotted with green conspicuous in flight. Male has rufous breast; female breast white with spotted green double-collar.
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AMAZON KINGFISHER – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Amazon Kingfisher is a resident of lakeshores and large-slow flowing rivers from northern Mexico south to central Argentina. They are large dark bronzy green birds with a ragged crest, a white throat and collar, and a white belly; the breast of the male is rufous, while the female has…
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RINGED KINGFISHER – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Largest kingfisher in Americas with exceptionally enormous bill and raucous calls. Blue-gray with shaggy crest, white collar, and rufous belly. Male and female similar, but note different breast pattern: entirely rufous on male, while female has blue-gray band bordered by white. Often conspicuous, searching shallow water for fish from a…
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LESSON’S MOTMOT – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Lesson’s Motmot is one of the most common and widespread species of motmot in Central America, with a distribution that extends from southern Mexico south to central Panama.
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BROAD-BILLED MOTMOT – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Fairly common throughout its range, Broad-billed Motmot inhabits humid forest in foothills and lowlands.
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TURQUOISE-BROWED MOTMOT – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Turquoise-browed Motmot is surely one of the most flamboyantly plumaged of a remarkable family, and it is sufficiently distinctive from other motmots to be afforded its own genus.
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COLLARED TROGON – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Collared Trogon is a common trogon of humid lowland forests of Central and South America.
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