[:en]Bird Paint-billed Crake[:es]Ave Polluela Piquirroja[:]
17 Jun

Paint-billed Crake

The Paint-billed Crake (Neocrex erythrops) is widespread in east and central South America and rarely migrates to USA. Its place is in grassy marshes, wet pastures, and rice fields. Its measures are 19 cm (7 inches) in height and 55 g in weight.

Pileum and hindneck brownish-slate to dark olive-brown. Rest of upperparts dull olive-brown. Throat white, and rest of head, neck, and anterior underparts are slate-gray to plumbeous. Legs red-orange to brownish-red. Bill with basal half scarlet, and rest yellow-green. Eats insects.

[:en]Bird Spotted Rail[:es]Ave Rascón Moteado[:]
17 Jun

Spotted Rail

The Spotted Rail (Pardirallus maculatus) lives from central Mexico and West Indies to northwest Peru, north Argentina, and south Brazil. Frequents tall grass, rushes or thickets in freshwater marshes. This bird is 25 cm (10 inches) heights and 190 g weights.

Head and neck lack, speckled with white. Mantle brown and black with white spots. Below barred with black and white. Legs carmine-red. Bill greenish-yellow with red spot at base. Eats adults and larval insects, earthworms and other invertebrates.

[:en]Bird Purple Gallinule[:es]Ave Gallareta Morada[:]
17 Jun

Purple Gallinule

The Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica) is found from east USA to north Chile and north Argentina. It lives in ponds and lagoons, marshes and grassy shores. Its size is of 33 cm (13 inches) in height and 235 g in weight.

Head, neck and breast deep violet-blue, and belly dull black. Back, rump, and tail dark bronzy-green. Wings greenish-blue, and crissum white. Bill scarlet with yellow tip, and legs yellow. Feeds on fruits or aquatic plants, berries, rice and other grains, aquatic insects and other invertebrates, small frogs and fishes.

01 Dec

Pacific Golden-plover

The Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a medium-sized plover . Its name means rain because it was believe that golden plovers flocked when rain was imminent. Its measures are 26 cm (10 inches) in height and 140 g in weight.

It has gold and black spot on the crown and the wings. Its face and neck are black with a white border, and it has a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black. In winter, the black is lost and the plover then has a yellowish face and breast, and white underparts. It eats insects, crustaceans and some berries

[:en]Bird Collared Plover[:es]Ave Chorlitejo Collarejo[:]
17 Jun

Collared Plover

The Collared plover (Charadrius collaris) lives from central Mexico south to Chile and Argentina in the coast. It eats insects, crustaceans and other small invertebrates. The height is 18 cm (7 inches) and the heft 35 g.

Grayish brown bodies and breast-band black, tinged with rufous on crown, legs color yellow with a Sloping and broad forehead. Immature birds lack any black on the head. They have a sharp and dry whistle. The flight call is a sharp metallic pip.

[:en]Bird Snowy Plover[:es]Ave Chorlitejo Patinegro[:]
17 Jun

Snowy Plover

The Snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) lives along Pacific Coast but also the Caribbean Coast. It breeds in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern and western United States and the Caribbean Coast on sandy coasts and brackish inland lakes. It ranges from 16 cm (6 inches) in stature and a mass of 40 g.

This birds is different from others for its dark-gray legs and incomplete breast band. Insects and other invertebrates are part of the Snowy plover´s alimentation. In many parts of the world, it has become difficult for this species to breed on beaches because of the activities of humans or depredators. For those reasons many institutions are protecting beaches and these plovers on the breeding time.

[:en]Bird Wilson´s Plover[:es]Ave Chorlitejo Picudo[:]
17 Jun

Wilson´s Plover

Also called Thick-billed Plover (Charadrius wilsonia), this plover reside on both coasts of the Americas. The measures are 20 cm (8 inches) of height and 55 g of weight.

This bird is the largest plover and it has a single breast-brand, large eyes, heavy bill and a squarish head. Its location in Costa Rica is in the Pacific Coast, in Gulf of Nicoya and Gulf Dulce, in places like Salinas, estuaries and large rivers near. They have a liking for crabs, but they also eat insects and marine worms.

[:en]Bird Semipalmated Plover[:es]Ave Chorlitejo Semipalmado[:]
17 Jun

Semipalmated Plover

The Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is different to other small plovers because of its yellowish to oranges legs. Its breeding habitat is open ground on beaches or flats across northern Canada and Alaska and they migrate in winter. Its size is 18 cm (7 inches) and its weight is 42 g.

Adults have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes and a short orange and black bill. Its size is 18 cm (7 inches) and its weight is 42 g.They eat insects, crustaceans and worm.

01 Dec

Piping plover

The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored bird that migrates from U.S. and Canada in the summer to the Gulf of Mexico, the southern Atlantic Coast of the United States and the Caribbean.

The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band in the forehead, and a black stripe in the breast. It ranges from 17 cm (6.7 inches) in length, with a wingspan of 38 cm (15 inches) and a mass of 53 g. They eat mainly insects, marine worms, and crustaceans. The population has been increasing since 1999.

[:en]Bird Killdeer[:es]Ave Chorlitejo Tildío o de Dos Collares[:]
18 Jun

Killdeer

The Killdeer’s (Charadrius vociferus) location is from Central Alaska to South America that depends on the breeding season. Some northern populations are migratory, in winter they prefer to live in coastal wetlands, beach habitats, coastal fields, savannas, pastures and plowed fields. The size is 25 cm (10 inches) and the weight 95g.

Its upperparts are mostly brown with rufous fringes, the head has patches of white and black, and there are two black breast bands on the breast. The belly and the rest of the breast is white. The killdeer primarily feeds on insects, other invertebrates and seeds.