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1. Keel Billed Toucan
   (our photo)
   Costa Rica: Road from San Jose to Puntarenas
2. White Winged Dove
   Costa Rica: Road from San Jose to Puntarenas
3. Tarandula Ant Eater
   Costa Rica: road outside of Villa Caletas
4. Black Vulture
   (our photo)
   Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
5. Great Tailed Grackle
   Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
6. Yellow Naped Parrot
   Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
   in flight only
7. Javio (sandbox) Tree
   Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
   poisonous spikes
8. White faced Capuchin Monkey
   (our photo)
   Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
9. Double Toothed Kite
   (our photo)
   Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
   following a group of monkeys to eat the bugs they shook out
10. Ctenosaur
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
    aka black iguanaÉ not actually an iguana
11. Chestnut Sided Warbler
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
12. Morpho Amathonte Butterfly
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
    beautiful undulating flight pattern; huge butterfly
13. Buff Throated Saltator
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
14. Turkey Vulture
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
15. Black Billed Wren
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
    call only
16. Ceba Tree
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
    sacred to mayans
17. Boat Billed Heron
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
    funny loud call; funny face
18. Great Blue Heron
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
19. Rough Winged Swallow
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
20. Great Egret
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
21. Snowy Egret
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
22. Northern Jacana
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
23. Tropical Kingbird
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
24. Nurubs Lizard
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
25. Long Winged Butterfly
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
26. Dryas Julia Butterfly
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
27. Heliconious Erata Butterfly
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
28. Patydis Butterfly
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
29. Lesser Nighthawk
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
    asleep during the day
30. Jesus Christ Lizard
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
31. Leaf Cutter Ant
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
32. Wood Stork
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
33. Chestnut Billed Toucan
    Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
34. Ruddy Quail Dove
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
35. Variagated Squirrel
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
36. Scarlet Macaw
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
    in flight only
37. Purple Crowned Fairy Hummingbird
    Costa Rica: Canopy Tour near Carrera NP
38. White Ibis
    Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
39. Snowy Egret
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
40. Parakeet
    Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
    in flight
41. Yellow Crowned Night Heron
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
    adult and juvinile
42. Cattle Egret
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
43. Anhinga
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
44. Neotropical Cormorant
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
45. Great Blue Heron
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
46. Little Blue Heron
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
47. Tri-Colored Heron
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
48. Bare Throated Tiger Heron
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
49. Green Backed Heron
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
    spectacular
50. Northern Jackana
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
    spectacular
51. Black Necked Stilt
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
52. Spotted Sandpiper
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
53. Mangrove Black Hawk
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
54. Osprey
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
55. Scarlet Macaw
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
    in flight only
56. Yellow Naped Parrot
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
    in flight only
57. Mangrove Swallow
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
58. Ringed Kingfisher
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
59. Amazon Kingfisher
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
60. Red Winged Blackbird
    Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
61. Howler Monkeys
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
    15 or so including a baby in a tree alongside the road on the way to cloud forest
62. Brown Jay
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
63. Red Start
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
64. Common Bush Tanager
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
65. Prong Billed Barbet
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
66. Tarantula Hawk Wasp: aka Cerlenteron Pepsis Chorous
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
67. Spotted Barbtail
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
    covered the whole tree from bottom to top hopping upwardÉ very cool
68. Three Striped Warbler
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
69. Ochraceous Wren
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
70. Buff Throated Foliage Cleaner
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
71. Strangler Fig
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
72. Ficus Fig
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
    fruit w/green outside and melon insideÉ good bait for fruit eating birds
73. Blue Crested Mott Mott
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
    beautifulÉ strange tail
74. Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Hummingbird Garden at Monteverde
75. Purple Throated Mountain Gem Hummingbird
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Hummingbird Garden at Monteverde
    male and female
76. Long Billed Starthroat Hummingbird
    Costa Rica: Hummingbird Garden at Monteverde
77. Green Crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Hummingbird Garden at Monteverde
    male and female
78. Crocodile
    (our photo)
79. Magnificent Frigatebird
    (our photo)
    Costa Rica: Coast at Resort