Field Guide to the Birds of Costa RicaThe principle objective of this book is to help the reader correctly identify birds in Costa Rica. Each family of birds is introduced by a brief description that should help the novice birder determine to which group a bird belongs. Nearly every species is illustrated by one or more images, as needed. |
Contents
Curassows Chachalacas Guans | 10 |
Spoonbills Ibises | 26 |
Falcons | 48 |
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advanced second growth bill birds breast breeding male Caño Negro region Caribbean lowlands Caribbean slope Central Valley color common at middle common in Caribbean common in northwestern Common in wet common NA migrant Costa Rica CR and western crown diagnostic distinguished Endemic Endemic to CR Euphonia Fairly common feathers female male flight Flycatcher forest and adjacent forest edges gray Guanacaste Cordillera Gulf of Nicoya habitat Hawk Hummingbird levels of forest levels of mature lowlands and foothills male female male male Manakin mangroves mature forest mature wet forest middle elevations middle levels Miravalles Volcano mixed flocks montane open areas Pacific lowlands Pacific race Pacific slope pale Panama perches plumage range overlap rare rufous rump Sandpiper similar southern Pacific species streaked stripe tail Talamanca Cordilleras Tanager throat Tilarán Trogon uncommon underparts Vireo Warbler western Central Valley western Panama wet lowlands Whistles wing bars winter resident Woodcreeper Wren yellow