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Caño Negro

Photos from a boat trip in Caño Negro National Park to the north of Costa Rica, near the Nicaragua border. I haven't got a thing for anhingas. The sequence of shots is of a female ahinga after it came up with a fish and battered it against the tree roots before tossing it up and swallowing it. I've only included about half a dozen pictures from that sequence here, but we watched this for quite a while (and there are many other photos).

I've also left one photograph in unedited on purpose. It's so you can play a little game of “spot the birdy.” I think it's pretty obvious which photo I'm referring to. If you don't find it, the next few photos are of the same bird and have been edited and cropped so you can see it much clearer.

Photographed:

Birds

  • Amazon Kingfisher
  • Anhinga
  • Bare-Throated Tiger Heron
  • Black-Crowned Night-Heron
  • Black-Headed Trogan
  • Black Vulture
  • Blue-Winged Teal (the worst picture you'll ever see, but I kept it for the record)
  • Boat-Billed Heron
  • Crested Caracara
  • Gray-Necked Wood-Rail
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Green Ibis
  • Green Kingfisher
  • Greenbacked Heron
  • Golden-Hooded Tanager (although I'm going on faith for this one)
  • Lineated Woodpecker
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Northern Jacana
  • Mangrove Swallow
  • Montezuma's Oropendola
  • Olivaceous Cormorant
  • Olive-Throated Parakeet
  • Osprey
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Ringed Kingfisher
  • Slaty-Tailed Trogan
  • Snowy Egret
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Tropical Pewee
  • White Ibis
  • Wood Stork


Other
  • Basilisk (Jesus Christ Lizard)
  • Black-River Turtle
  • Green Iguana
  • Spectacled Caimen


We also got to see both the mantled howler monkey and white faced capuchin on this trip, but none of the photos came out very well and, given that I had some better pictures from other trips, I didn't include them here.

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Snowy Egret

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Olivaceous Cormorant

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Ringed Kingfisher

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Ringed Kingfisher

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Spectacled Caimen

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Anhinga

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Green Iguana

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Great Egret

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Great Blue Heron

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Wood Stork, Olivaceous Cormorant

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Tricolored Heron

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Wood Stork

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Tricolored Heron

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Wood Stork

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White Ibis

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Amazon Kingfisher

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Greenbacked Heron

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Spectacled Caimen

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Northern Jacana

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Great Blue Heron

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Boat-Billed Heron

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Green Ibis

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Anhinga

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Anhinga

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Anhinga

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Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Bare-Throated Tiger Heron

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Greenbacked Heron

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Bare-Throated Tiger Heron

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Mangrove Swallow

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Mangrove Swallow

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Blue-Winged Teal

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Green Kingfisher

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Olivaceous Cormorant, Tricolored Heron

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Crested Caracara

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Lineated Woodpecker

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Lineated Woodpecker

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Black-Crowned Night-Heron

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Black Vulture

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Black-Headed Trogan

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Black-Headed Trogan

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Black-Headed Trogan

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Olive-Throated Parakeet

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Olive-Throated Parakeet

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Olive-Throated Parakeet

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Little Blue Heron

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Tropical Pewee

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Golden-Hooded Tanager

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Slaty-Tailed Trogan

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Slaty-Tailed Trogan

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Black-River Turtle

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Mangrove Swallow

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Ringed Kingfisher

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Gray-Necked Wood-Rail

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Gray-Necked Wood-Rail

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Tropical Kingbird

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Basilisk (Jesus Christ Lizard)

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Boat-Billed Heron

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Pectoral Sandpiper

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Montezuma's Oropendola

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Osprey

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Osprey

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