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What are the best birding spots near Jaco? If you come to visit Jaco and like the birdwatching activity but think this destiny won’t work, let me tell you, you are wrong. Jaco is not only ...

The Costa Rica National Bird. Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae Common Name: Clay-colored Thrush Scientific Name:Turdus grayi Characteristics. Drab, uniformly brown thrush with slightly warmer belly. Dull yellowish bill and very faint streaks on the throat. Very common and widespread throughout Central ...

Is birding good for your health? In recent years some researchers have found that people who usually go out for birding have a lower risk for depression, stress, and anxiety compared to people who live in ...

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 ...