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our costa rica bird list 2008, including savagre and rancho naturalista, or try to say scale-crested pygmy-tyrant three times fast without laughing

2008-11-16 - 1:45 p.m.

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Whew. With a total of 181 species for this trip, 89 of them life birds which I tried to italicize, then I'm worn out just from adding the new birds to my data base. It's a big trip for the small amount of time (1 week) and reasonable price -- putting my Costa Rica life list at 210 birds, just one species short of my Louisiana list, and my worldwide life list at 1,308 species. Wheee! Stay tuned for a full trip report soon. Executive Summary: We hit the Savagre River area and the Cerro de la Muerte for the Pacific slope birds and then the Rancho Naturalista "Home of the Snowcap" for the Caribbean slope. Results -- a lot of species in a little bit of time, including the famous Resplendent Quetzal and the Snowcap.

the good-looking and ever-popular resplendent quetzal and modest too! joined the life list at an avocado tree behind a small house with poodle in savagre, where the existence of two females to four males produced the displays and disputes to best show off the thrilling streamer tails of the male of the species

  1. Little Blue Heron
  2. Cattle Egret
  3. Boat-billed Heron
  4. Green Ibis
  5. Black Vulture
  6. Turkey Vulture
  7. Roadside Hawk
  8. Short-tailed Hawk
  9. Red-tailed Hawk
  10. Gray-headed Chachalaca
  11. Crested Guan
  12. Black Guan
  13. Purple Gallinule
  14. American Coot
  15. Northern Jacana
  16. Rock Dove
  17. Red-billed Pigeon
  18. Short-billed Pigeon
  19. Ruddy Pigeon
  20. Ruddy Ground-Dove
  21. White-tipped Dove
  22. Gray-chested Dove
  23. Crimson-fronted Parakeet
  24. White-crowned Parrot
  25. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
  26. Pauraque
  27. Vaux's Swift
  28. Green Hermit
  29. Little Hermit
  30. Violet Sabrewing
  31. White-necked Jacobin
  32. Brown Violet-ear
  33. Green Violet-ear
  34. Green-breasted Mango
  35. Black-crested Coquette
  36. Green Thorntail
  37. Fiery-throated Hummingbird
  38. Violet-crowned Woodnymph
  39. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
  40. Snowcap
  41. Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
  42. Gray-tailed Mountain-gem
  43. Green-crowned Brilliant
  44. Magnificent Hummingbird
  45. Purple-crowned Fairy
  46. Plain-capped Starthroat
  47. Scintillant Hummingbird
  48. Volcano Hummingbird
  49. Violaceous Trogon
  50. Resplendent Quetzal
  51. Ringed Kingfisher
  52. Blue-crowned Motmot
  53. Blue-throated Toucanet (No. Emerald subspecies on some lists)
  54. Collared Aracari
  55. Acorn Woodpecker
  56. Black-cheeked Woodpecker
  57. Hoffmann's Woodpecker
  58. Rufous-winged Woodpecker
  59. Golden-olive Woodpecker
  60. Lineated Woodpecker
  61. Pale-billed Woodpecker
  62. Ruddy Treerunner
  63. Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner
  64. Tawny-Throated Leaftosser

    the pride of the cerro de la muerte "mountain of death" was the mischievous volcanic junco

  65. Plain-brown Woodcreeper
  66. Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
  67. Spotted Woodcreeper
  68. Streak-headed Woodcreeper
  69. Spot-crowned Woodcreeper
  70. Russet Antshrike
  71. Plain Antvireo
  72. Checker-throated Antwren
  73. Slaty Antwren
  74. White-collared Manakin
  75. White-ruffed Manakin -- sadly, the female only
  76. White-crowned Manakin
  77. Mountain Elaenia
  78. Torrent Tyrannulet
  79. Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
  80. Paltry Tyrannulet
  81. Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant
  82. Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher
  83. Common Tody-Flycatcher
  84. Yellow-olive Flycatcher
  85. Tawny-chested Flycatcher
  86. Tufted Flycatcher
  87. Western Wood-Pewee
  88. Eastern Wood-Pewee
  89. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
  90. Yellowish Flycatcher
  91. Black-capped Flycatcher
  92. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
  93. Great Kiskadee
  94. Boat-billed Flycatcher
  95. Social Flycatcher
  96. Gray-capped Flycatcher
  97. Tropical Kingbird
  98. Cinnamon Becard
  99. Masked Tityra
  100. Blue-and-white Swallow
  101. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  102. Southern Rough-winged Swallow
  103. Barn Swallow
  104. Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher
  105. Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher
  106. Band-backed Wren
  107. Stripe-breasted Wren
  108. Ochraceous Wren
  109. Timberline Wren
  110. White-breasted Wood-Wren
  111. Southern Nightingale-Wren
  112. Black-faced Solitaire
  113. Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush
  114. Sooty Robin
  115. Mountain Robin
  116. Clay-colored Robin
  117. Brown Jay
  118. Yellow-throated Vireo
  119. Yellow-winged Vireo
  120. Brown-capped Vireo
  121. Philadelphia Vireo
  122. Rufous-browed Peppershrike
  123. Golden-Winged Warbler
  124. Tennessee Warbler
  125. Flame-throated Warbler
  126. Tropical Parula
  127. Chestnut-sided Warbler
  128. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  129. Black-throated Green Warbler
  130. Black-and-white Warbler
  131. American Redstart
  132. Worm-eating Warbler
  133. Ovenbird
  134. Louisiana Waterthrush
  135. Olive-crowned Yellowthroat
  136. Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
  137. Wilson's Warbler
  138. Collared Redstart
  139. Golden-crowned Warbler
  140. Rufous-capped Warbler
  141. Black-cheeked Warbler
  142. Wrenthrush
  143. Bananaquit
  144. Common Bush-Tanager
  145. Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager
  146. Olive Tanager
  147. White-shouldered Tanager
  148. White-lined Tanager
  149. Red-throated Ant-Tanager
  150. Summer Tanager
  151. Flame-colored Tanager
  152. Crimson-collared Tanager
  153. Passerini's Tanager
  154. Blue-gray Tanager
  155. Palm Tanager
  156. Yellow-crowned Euphonia
  157. Yellow-throated Euphonia
  158. Blue-Hooded Euphonia
  159. Silver-throated Tanager
  160. Bay-headed Tanager
  161. Golden-hooded Tanager
  162. Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
  163. Green Honeycreeper
  164. Variable Seedeater
  165. Yellow-faced Grassquit
  166. Slaty Flowerpiercer
  167. Sooty-faced Finch
  168. Yellow-thighed Finch
  169. Large-footed Finch
  170. Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch
  171. Orange-billed Sparrow
  172. Rufous-collared Sparrow
  173. Volcano Junco
  174. Grayish Saltator
  175. Buff-throated Saltator
  176. Black-headed Saltator
  177. Melodious Blackbird
  178. Great-tailed Grackle
  179. Baltimore Oriole
  180. Scarlet-rumped Cacique
  181. Montezuma Oropendola

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