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January 16, 2013 - Talari Lodge, Los Cusingos (Skutch) and Esquinas Lodge
Up at 6 AM again for early birding at Talari. At least there was coffee this morning. Not much new. After breakfast, we left Talari and headed for Los Cusingos, the refuge/park that was the home of the late Alexander F. Skutch, the coauthor of the leading bird ID book for Costa Rica and the pioneer ornithologist in Costa Rica. His home is preserved as a museum. Good grounds and nice trails; we spent the morning there and got some antbirds and good views of wrens. At these lowland elevations, it gets pretty warm towards the end of the morning. We ate a box lunch from Talari and then made long drive to Esquinas, just off of the Golfo de Dulce, at sea level. Very hot, but tropical rain showers on drive in cooled things off. Spectacular birding on the short, 5 km drive in, despite intermittent rain. After getting rooms, Nancy and I did a short late afternoon walk with Dave and Therese. Two new birds as well as a dozen others. A very good location. We're looking forward to an all-day serious birding tomorrow.
Almost no photos. Here are some from yesterday.
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Birds |
Gray-headed Chachalaca |
Great Egret |
Snowy Egret |
Little Blue Heron |
Cattle Egret |
Green Heron |
Black Vulture |
Turkey Vulture |
Roadside Hawk |
Gray-necked Wood-Rail |
Southern Lapwing |
Northern Jacana |
Spotted Sandpiper |
Wilson's Snipe |
Rock Pigeon |
Pale-vented Pigeon |
Plain-breasted Ground-Dove |
White-tipped Dove |
Squirrel Cuckoo |
Smooth-billed Ani |
Costa Rican Swift |
Long-billed Hermit |
Purple-crowned Fairy |
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird |
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird |
Blue-crowned Motmot |
Fiery-billed Aracari |
Black-mandibled Toucan |
Red-crowned Woodpecker |
Crested Caracara |
Yellow-headed Caracara |
Laughing Falcon |
Crimson-fronted Parakeet |
Orange-chinned Parakeet |
Brown-hooded Parrot |
Blue-headed Parrot |
White-crowned Parrot |
Western Slaty-Antshrike |
Black-hooded Antshrike |
Chestnut-backed Antbird |
Bicolored Antbird |
Plain Xenops |
Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet |
Common Tody-Flycatcher |
Black Phoebe |
Great Kiskadee |
Boat-billed Flycatcher |
Social Flycatcher |
Gray-capped Flycatcher |
Streaked Flycatcher |
Tropical Kingbird |
Rufous Piha |
Orange-collared Manakin |
Red-capped Manakin |
Yellow-throated Vireo |
Lesser Greenlet |
Brown Jay |
Blue-and-white Swallow |
Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
Gray-breasted Martin |
House Wren |
Rufous-breasted Wren |
Riverside Wren |
Long-billed Gnatwren |
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush |
Clay-colored Thrush |
Black-and-white Warbler |
Tennessee Warbler |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
White-shouldered Tanager |
Cherrie's Tanager |
Blue-gray Tanager |
Palm Tanager |
Golden-hooded Tanager |
Speckled Tanager |
Bay-headed Tanager |
Blue Dacnis |
Red-legged Honeycreeper |
Green Honeycreeper |
Variable Seedeater |
Thick-billed Seed-Finch |
Grayish Saltator |
Orange-billed Sparrow |
Summer Tanager |
Great-tailed Grackle |
Bronzed Cowbird |
Baltimore Oriole |
Scarlet-rumped Cacique |
Yellow-crowned Euphonia |
Spot-crowned Euphonia |
House Sparrow |
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Red-crowned Woodpecker
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Flame-colored Tanager
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Sooty Robin
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