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Costa Rican bird IDs

Started by Texachusetts, May 06 2012 08:21 PM

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#1 Texachusetts

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 08:21 PM

Most birds I saw in Costa Rica I can ID, but these I could use a bit of help please. 1. Blue-crowned motmot? Posted Image

, 2. Another motmot? Posted Image

3, 4 and 5 are Kingfishers, but which? I know we saw an Amazon Posted Image

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6 Guan?It was huge! Posted Image

,7. White Hawk? Posted Image

8.Great Kiskadee? Posted Image

. The toucans were easy to ID, Also saw wild Scarlet Macaws, tons of blue-gray and passerini tanagers, but no pics:( Thanks.

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#2 Liam

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 08:27 PM

1. Blue-crowned Motmot
2. Broad-billed Motmot
3-5. Amazon Kingfishers
6. Female Great Currasow. Nice!
7. White Hawk
8. Great Kiskadee indeed

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#3 birder boy11

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 08:28 PM

#1 is a Blue crowned mot mot#2 I think is a Broad billed mot mot #3 4 and 5 look to me all like Amazon kingfishers #6 Crested curassow #7 is like what you said a white hawk and # 8 is a Great kiskadee.

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#4 Texachusetts

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 08:36 PM

Thanks..I only had some bird pamphlets and some of these aren't in there. I have seen the Great Kiskadee in Texas, but there are so many similar looking birds in Costa Rica I wanted to verify this picture.

Life list at 353!...2013 Lifers: Barred Owl, Northern Shrike, Pine Grosbeak, Merlin, Red Crossbill, White-winged Crossbill, Common Pauraque, Olive Sparrow, Western, Least, Clark's and Eared Grebes, Altimira, Audubons, Scotts and Bullock's Orioles, Black-headed Grosbeak, Green Kingfisher, Reddish Egret, Red-naped Sapsucker, Eastern and Western Screech Owls, Flamulated owl,Elf Owl, Mexican Spotted Owl, American Bittern, more ducks and shorebirds than I can list , Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet, Buff-breasted flycatcher, ELEGANT TROGON, Gray Hawk, Black Hawk, Hutton's and Bell's Vireo,Black-throated Gray Warbler, Painted Redstart, Yellow-throated warbler, TROPICAL PARULA, Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, Broad-billed, Anna's, Costa's, Violet -crowned, Rufous and Magnificent Hummingbirds.
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