Costa Rica exotics

This is the bird that everyone comes to Costa Rica to see - just the name of it is impossible to resist. Behold the Resplendent Quetzal:



Blue-Crowned Motmot:


Rufous-Tailed Jacamar:


White-Whiskered Puffbird:


Bare-Throated Tiger Heron:


Another Bare-Throated Tiger Heron - this one juvenile:


This weirdly colored bird (with rare bi-colored bill) is a Montezuma Oropendola:


Black-Crowned Tityra:


Rufous-Naped Wren:


Squirrel Cuckoo:


Pale-Billed Woodpecker:






Yellow-Crowned Night Heron:


Great-Tailed Grackle:


A pair of Orange-Chinned Parakeets investing what the Golden-Naped Woodpecker is doing to their nest cavity:


Close-up of the Golden-Naped Woodpecker:


Gray Hawk:


Inca Dove:


The exotic thing in this picture is not the Osprey...