[:en]Bird Emerald Toucanet[:es]Ave Curré, Tucancillo Verde[:]
01 Jul

Emerald Toucanet

The Emerald toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) is the smallest and shortest-billed toucan in Costa Rica, the only one with green body. You can find it from Tropical Mexico to N Venezuela and E Peru.

29cm (11 ½ “), 180g. Crown and hindneck olive-green, shading to grass green over rest of upperparts; rectrices bluish distally, tipped with chestnut; lores, below eye and throat dark blue; rest of underparts pale yellow-green; crissum chestnut. Orbital skin bluish-slate; sides of upper mandible bright yellow; base of culmen, broad stripe along tomium and lower mandible black; dark red patch around nostrils; narrow yellow (upper mandible) and white (lower one) line encircling base of bill; legs bright olive-green. Young: throat paler; underparts paler and duller; dark areas of bill dusky-horn; no pale line encircling base.

21 Dec

Ruddy Crake

The Ruddy Crake (Laterallus ruber) is found from south and east Mexico to Costa Rica. Its natural habits are in grassy marshes, flooded or well drained fields and pastures with tall grass or weeds. Adults are 16.5 cm (6 inches) in height and 45 g in weight.

This is a small and reddish bird with contrasting dark head. Its top and sides of head are gray, with throat buffy. Body rufous and below paler. Wings and tail dark brown. Bill black and legs greenish. It eats insects.

[:en]Bird White-throated Crake[:es]Ave Polluela Gargantiblanca[:]
17 Jun

White-throated Crake

The White-throated Crake (Laterallus albigularis) ramges from southeast Honduras to north Colombia and west Ecuador. It lurks amid thick, grassy vegetation or covers shallow water in marshes, flooded pastures, and margins of ponds and rivers. Matures are 16 cm (6 inches) heights and 42 g weights.

Its throat is white, and its rest of head, foreneck and breast are rufous. Upperparts brown, and posterior underparts barred with white and black. Bill pale greenish, and legs olive-gray. Feeds on insects, spiders, seeds and algae.

[:en]Bird Gray-breasted Crake[:es]Ave Polluela Pechigris[:]
17 Jun

Gray-breasted Crake

The Gray-breasted Crake (Laterallus exilis) is found from Belize to east Peru and Paraguay. Its place is in tall grass in wet pastures, riverbanks and shallow marshes. Its size is of 15 cm (6 inches) in height and 33 g in weight.

Crown blackish, throat whitish, and belly white. Rest of head, neck and breast gray. Mantle olive-brow, and flanks barred with black and white. Legs brownish-fresh, and bill dusky with bright yellow spot on each side near base. Eats small insects, earthworms, other invertebrates, and seeds.

21 Dec

Black rail

The Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis) breeds in some parts of USA, Mexico, Central America, Chile, Argentina, and West Indies. It frequents grassy marshes and pond borders, cattails and flooded tall-grass pastures. Matures are 14 cm (5 inches) in height and 34 g in weight.

Head, throat, and breast blackish (in males) and dark gray (in females). Hindneck chestnut, and upperparts blackish-brown, speckled with white. Bill black, and feet yellow to flesh-color. Its diet is based on seeds, small insects and other invertebrates.

21 Dec

Rufous-necked Wood-rail

The Rufous-necked Wood-rail (Aramides axillaris) resides from central Mexico to Ecuador. This little know bird lives in mangroves and swamp forest. Its measures are 28 cm (11 inches) in height and 275 g in weight.

Its head, neck, and breast are rufous. Belly sooty-gray, and throat white. Back and wing-coverts dull olive-green, contrasting with a triangular gray patch on upper back. Remiges mostly rufous, and rump, tail and crissum are blackish. Bill greenish-yellow, and legs colar-red. Eats mainly crabs.