[:en]Bird Double-striped Thick Knee[:es]Ave Alcaraván Americano[:]
17 Jun

Double-striped Thick Knee

The Double-Striped Thick-Knee (Burhinus bistriatus) ranges from South Mexico to Costa Rica, and South America from North Colombia to Northeast Brazil. This bird is active principally at night on savannas, pastures, stubble fields, burned areas, and in scrubby woodland. Its measures are 50 cm (20 inches) in height and 780 g in weight.

Adults are large, with a broad black stripe on side of crown, throat white, and rest of the head, neck and upperparts streaked with brown and buff.

10 Jan

Common Gallinule

The Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) ranges from south Canada to north Chile and north Argentina. Also called Common Moorhen. Prefers marshes, ponds, and slow streams with abundant aquatic vegetation. Adults are 33 cm (13 inches) in height and 365 g in weight.

Head and neck black, shading to dark slate over rest of body. Rump and tail black. Bill and frontal shield scarlet and tipped with yellow. Feet greenish. Its diet is based on seeds, leaves, roots, snails, insects, and worms.

[:en]Bird American Coot[:es]Ave Focha Americana[:]
17 Jun

American Coot

The American Coot (Fulica americana) breeds mainly from central Canada to north Mexico. Winters from Canada and USA to Colombia. It is found in calm, open water with plenty of algae and other aquatic vegetation. Matures are 35 cm (14 inches) in height and 650 g in weight.

Head and neck are black, shading to dark gray on body and wings. Belly mottled with whitish. Sides of crissum white and tail black. Legs greenish, and bill white, with a small dark spot near tip of each mandible. Feeds on leaves of aquatic plants and small animals.

[:en]Bird Sungrebe[:es]Ave Pato Cantil[:]
17 Jun

Sungrebe

The Sungrebe (Heliornis fulica) lives from central Mexico to west Ecuador, east Peru, Paraguay, and southeast Brazil. It prefers streams, rivers, and sloughs; mostly in wooded country. Its size is of 28 cm (11 cm) in height and 115 g in weight.

Its head and neck are broadly striped with black and white. Upperparts olive-brown, and below white. Tail blackish tipped with buffy-white. Bill flesh-to horn-color, and feet whitish. This bird eats insects, spiders, small frogs and lizards.

[:en]Bird Limpkin[:es]Ave Carao[:]
17 Jun

Limpkin

The Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) inhabits from the Southeast part of United States, and South Mexico to Ecuador and North Argentina. It is seen in open freshwater marshes, pond and river margins, and wooded swamps. Its measures are 66 cm (26 inches) in height and 1.1 kg in weight.

Its face is gray-brown, head and neck are streaked whit brown and white. Body dark brown glossed with greenish to purplish. Bill yellow and legs dull greenish. Eats apple snails.

[:en]Bird Jabiru[:es]Ave Jabirú, Galan Sin Ventura[:]
13 Jun

Jabiru

The Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) has been settled between the south part of Mexico and South America. In Costa Rica, it lives in Caño Negro and Guanacaste. It ranges from 135 cm (53 inches) in length and a mass of 6.5 kg.

This bird is the tallest flying bird found in South America and Central America. They have a plumage entirely white and the head and neck bare. The jabiru lives in large groups near rivers and ponds, and eats fish, mollusks, amphibians and sometimes reptiles, bird eggs, and small mammals.

[:en]Bird Wood Stork[:es]Ave Cigueñón[:]
13 Jun

Wood Stork

The Wood Stork (Mycteria Americana) resides from Southeast part of United States to the North part of Argentina. In Costa Rica they live in Guanacaste (Pajaros Island and Tempisque River), Rio Frio Region, and Nicoya Gulf and sometimes in the Central Valley. Its environment is in places like mangroves or any freshwater or saltwater habitat. Its height is of 102 cm (40 inches) and ist mass of 2.5 kg.

Its plumage is mostly white, with the exception of the tail and some of the wing feathers, which are black with a greenish-purplish sheen. They often fly and soar in groups, and eats fishes.

[:en]Bird Black Vulture[:es]Ave Zopilote Negro[:]
13 Jun

Black Vulture

The Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) lives from the southeastern United States to Central Chile and Uruguay in South America. They usually live around towns preferring lowlands, rarely in mountainous areas. Adults are 64 cm (25 inches) and weigh 1.8 Kg with a 133 m (52 in) wingspan.

In addition, some features are its large and naked head, long neck, plumage entirely black except for a white path in the legs and tail short with square size. Is a scavenger and feeds on carrion, playing in that way an important role in the ecosystem.

[:en]Bird Turkey Volture[:es]Ave Zopilote Cabecirrojo[:]
13 Jun

Turkey Vulture

The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) lives from southern Canada to South America in Subtropical forests, scrublands, pastures, and deserts. In Costa Rica, they live in Caribbean’s lowlands. Its high is 76 cm (30 inches), its weight is 1.4 kg and it has a wingspan of 160–183 cm (63–72 inches).

The body feathers are mostly brownish-black. The adult’s head is small in proportion to its body and is color red. The immature bird has a gray head with a black beak tip and they are black.

[:en]Bird Lesser Yellow-headed Volture[:es]Ave Zopilote Cabecigualdo[:]
13 Jun

Lesser Yellow-headed Volture

Its scientific name is Cathartes burrovianus and it is known as the savannah vulture. It is found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. In Costa Rica, it lives in Rio Frio region, Palo Verde National Park and Peninsula of Osa. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture’s heft is 1 kg and its stature is 64 cm (25 inches).

Adults have an orange-yellow-headed with blue-violet crown and its plumage is black with a green sheen. Youngers have a dusty head with whitish nape. It travels alone and is rarely found in groups.

[:en]Bird King Volture[:es]Ave Zopilote Rey[:]
13 Jun

King Vulture

The King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is the largest Costa Rican vulture and it is found in Central and South America. Is a solitary bird and lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests. In Costa Rica, it specially lives on Peninsula of Osa. King Vulture’s size is 81 cm (32 inches) and its weight is 3.5 kg.

The adult king vulture has predominantly white plumage, which has a slight rose-yellow tinge to it. Younger vultures are a slate gray overall. The bird has broad wings and a short, broad, and squaretail. Its colorful head has orange, yellow, blue and white. The vulture’s head and neck are featherless as an adaptation for hygiene, this lack of feathers prevents bacteria from the carrion it eats.