Baltimore orioles and summer tanagers in Costa Rica

This is a rufous-collared sparrow video. One of the bird species in Santo Domingo de Heredia in Costa Rica. An individual often sang, sitting on top of a bronze stork sculpture in the botanical garden. I fondly remember this species from Quito in Ecuador, a long time ago.

30 March 2014. After yesterday, our second full day in Santo Domingo de Heredia. And our last full day in Costa Rica.

A Montezuma oropendola feeding on a flower in a tree.

In the same tree, a Hoffmann’s woodpecker.

A Finsch’s parakeets flock flies past. These birds live only in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama.

A rufous-tailed hummingbird.

Male Baltimore orioles; see also here.

And females.

7:35: a white-winged dove.

Five minutes later: a summer tanager male.

There is a summer tanager female as well.

A blue-grey tanager builds its nest.

A buff-throated saltator sings.

An Inca dove.

A rufous-naped wren.

10:38: a variegated squirrel feeding.

10:45 a female great-tailed grackle drinks at a bird bath.

A list of birds in this garden is here.

Stay tuned, as there will be more on birds and other subjects in Costa Rica on 30 March!

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