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.