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We spotted these Greater White-lined sac-winged Bats hanging onto a tree trunk that was along the Rio Frio in the Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge. Occasionally they would start moving up and down resembling a bunch of dried leaves on a vine blowing in the wind. My guess is that this is a method to food potential predators into thinking they aren’t anything to eat.
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Saccopteryx bilineata
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By far the most common kingfisher that we encountered during our time in the Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica was the Amazon Kingfisher. This female was quite a great model.
We will be doing this trip again next spring, if you think you might be interested more information is available here: www.texastargetbirds.com/group-photo-trips/2018-costa-ric...
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Chloroceryle amazona
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This female Thick-billed Seed-Finch must have found something about us interesting because she flew up right next to us as we were birding along the road. She didn’t hang around for long so I wasn’t able to adjust for greater depth of field but it was neat to see her anyway.
We will be doing this trip again next spring, if you think you might be interested more information is available here: www.texastargetbirds.com/group-photo-trips/2018-costa-ric...
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Oryzoborus funereus
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This is the Rio Celeste Waterfall in Tenorio National Park in northern Costa Rica. Conditions weren’t as good as I had hoped but I just can’t pass up such a pretty sight without at least snapping a couple of photos. Yes the water really is that blue. The blue color is caused by the scattering of light by deposits of aluminosilicates on the rocks in the river bed. These aluminosilicates absorb all colors except for blue which means only blue light is reflected back to the viewer.
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The ubiquitous Tropical Kingbird seemed to be a constant companion during our trip to Costa Rica earlier this month. They seemed to be everywhere we went and were a constant eye-catcher as we were searching for birds. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to click a few shots off of this one who happily posed right next to the road.
We will be doing this trip again next spring, if you think you might be interested more information is available here: www.texastargetbirds.com/group-photo-trips/2018-costa-ric...
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Tyrannus melancholicus
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