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The Great Green Macaw KINGDOM: Animalia PHYLUM: Chordata CLASS: Birds ORDER: Psittaciforms FAMILY: Psittacidae GENUS: Ara SPECIES: Ara ambiguus   Highlights. Population size: 500-1,000 Life span: 60-70 YRS Weight: 1.3 KG Length: 85-90 CM The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus), is a Central and South American parrot found in ...

What to know about the Costa Rica Vultures? Anywhere in Costa Rica it is easy to see several species of Vultures soaring high overhead. Known in Spanish as "Zopilotes", whether it is the Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus), ...

New World Kingfishers The Kingfishers are amazing birds that inhabit freshwater environments such as rivers, lagoons, streams, wetlands, estuaries and the coast line. There are about 116 species of Kingfishers around the world and just six ...

What species of Curassows are found in Costa Rica? The Great Curassow KINGDOM: Animalia PHYLUM: Chordata CLASS: Birds ORDER: Galliformes FAMILY: Cracidae GENUS: Crax SPECIES: Crax rubra The Great Curassow is the largest of all the guans ...

Birding in Costa Rica, what to expect?A kingdom of tropical biodiversity, Costa Rica is only the size of West Virginia but lodges 5% of Earth’s species. This small Central American country, located between Nicaragua and ...

What to know about the Cedar Waxwing? Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum ORDER: Passeriformes FAMILY: Bombycillidae   Basic Description. The Cedar Waxwing is a silky, shiny collection of brown, gray, and lemon-yellow, accented with a subdued crest, rakish black ...

The five common owls of Costa Rica’s Central Pacific. There are 17 different species of Owls patrolling the Costa Rican forests.  In the Central Pacific due to the conditions, specifically in the Jaco area, five species are ...

10 amazing facts about the Osprey. Large raptor, mostly white below, cruising over lakes, rivers, and mangroves in search of fish. Impressively distributed: found on all continents except Antarctica. Head and underparts mostly white; dark brown ...