Author Archives: Paul G Pickering

Spectacular Sunbittern show on the Rio Taus

Hook-billed Kite – San Antonio de Turrialba

In my Costa Rican Garden – Stripe-throated Hermit

Great Jacamar – a Caribbean rarity

Flame-colored Tanager

Spangle-cheeked Tanager – beautiful highland endemic species

White-throated Flycatcher – an Empidonax Flycatcher resident in Costa Rica

Stripe-tailed Hummingbird can be hard to pin down

Sungrebe – a new species for Cartago Province

Ochre-bellied flycatcher with morning cup of Costa Rican coffee

Yellow Tyrannulet

Lineated Woodpecker

White-fronted Nunbird – a new bird for me

Great Green Macaw – in numbers!

Red-legged Honeycreeper at Santa Rosa

In my Costa Rican garden – Lesson’s Motmot

In my garden: Purple-throated Mountain-gem + at least 5 other hummingbird species

Nesting Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls

Red-winged Blackbird

One year later – Roseate Spoonbill still at Angostura

Black-cowled Oriole

Striped Owl by night at Santa Rosa

Muscovy Duck

Belted Kingfisher – our only migrant kingfisher