Bat Falcon
along the road
from Selva Verde Lodge to La Selva Biological Station

We got off the bus along the entrance road to La Selva Biological Station and walked up to the dining room: Carolyn, Steve, Catherine, Andy, Jerry, Erick, Terri, Carl, Keith

Keith, Catherine, Andy (behind), Carolyn, Jerry, Erick, Steve, Vickie, Carl and Terri
along the entrance road to La Selva Biological Station

Scaled Pigeon
on the road into La Selva Biological Station

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Welcome sign at La Selva Biological Station

Scarlet Macaw flying over

White-fronted Parrot

White-fronted Parrot

Long-tailed Tyrant
on a water tower
near the entrance to La Selva Biological Station

Long-tailed Tyrant

Shiny Cowbird

Female Cinnamon Woodpecker

Female Cinnamon Woodpecker

Male Snowy Cotinga
near the entrance to La Selva Biological Station
in the same tree with a pair of Cinnamon Woodpeckers

Snowy Cotinga

Snowy Cotinga

Snowy Cotinga

Snowy Cotinga

Female Masked Tityra

Southern Rough-winged Swallow

Southern Rough-winged Swallow

Crested Guan

Black-faced Grosbeak
near the dining room at La Selva Biological Station
just before we stopped for breakfast

Social Flycatcher
showing its red crest

Mary, Terri, Carl, Jerry and Catherine
at the open-air dining area at La Selva Biological Station

Female Shiny Cowbird

Band-backed Wren

Band-backed Wren

Band-backed Wren

Band-backed Wren

Green-breasted Mango hummingbird on a nest on a tower next to the dining room
(according to local guide, Joel, who pointed it out to us--small, even in the scope)

Gray-capped Flycatcher

Stripe-throated Hermit hummingbird

Band-backed Wren

Band-backed Wren

Stripe-throated Hermit hummingbird

Male Passerini's Tanager

Shiny Cowbird
(black bill and eye)

Female Passerini's Tanager
seemed to be nest-building in the bush where the hermit hummingbird was feeding

Female Passerini's Tanager

Yellow-throated Toucan

Cocoa Woodcreeper

Cocoa Woodcreeper

Cocoa Woodcreeper

Cocoa Woodcreeper

Cocoa Woodcreeper

Male Gartered Trogon
on one of the cables to the Stone suspension bridge

Turkey Vulture
in a tree next to Stone Bridge

Social Flycatcher
building a nest on Stone Bridge
It had started nests on several identical supports.

Rufous Motmot

Rufous Motmot

Rufous Motmot

Rufous Motmot

Male Passerini's Tanager

Male Passerini's Tanager

Male Passerini's Tanager

Short-billed Pigeon

Plain-brown Woodcreeper

Plain-brown Woodcreeper

Male Great Curassow
in a tree over the road

Male Great Curassow

Male Great Curassow

Collared Aracari

Collared Aracari

Collared Aracari

Adult Three-toed Sloth with baby

Adult Three-toed Sloth with baby

Adult Three-toed Sloth with baby

Adult Three-toed Sloth with baby

Adult Three-toed Sloth with baby

Rufous Motmot
After the morning walk, Mary and I asked to tag along with Catherine and Joel, the local guide, as he scouted for birds for our afternoon field trip; we got good looks at several birds.

Rufous Mourner
with a moth

Rufous Mourner
was right over our heads on the trail

One of the long, tree-lined paths at La Selva Biological Station

Pale-billed Woodpecker.

Back view of Pale-billed Woodpecker

Pale-billed Woodpecker

Male Pale-billed Woodpecker

Male Pale-billed Woodpecker

Male Pale-billed Woodpecker

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Gray-capped Flycatcher
with some nesting material, hopping onto a heliconia,
near the dining area at La Selva Biological Station

Stingless bees swarming around a tree
near the dining area at La Selva Biological Station

Male Shining Honeycreeper
Terri showed me where four guans had been earlier,
but we saw other good birds instead.

Male Shining Honeycreeper

Male Shining Honeycreeper

Female Olive-backed Euphonia

Male Olive-backed Euphonia

Male Olive-backed Euphonia

Male Olive-backed Euphonia

Crested Guan
in a tree near the dining area
at La Selva Biological Station
(Organization for Tropical Studies)

Common Tody-Flycatcher
in a bush near the dining area

Common Tody-Flycatcher

Female Passerini's Tanager?

Female Variable Seedeater
on the grass near the dining area

Female Variable Seedeater

Male Variable Seedeater

Golden-hooded Tanager
in a bush near the dining area

Golden-hooded Tanager

Golden-hooded Tanager

Common Pauraque
under a bush near the dining area

Common Pauraque

Male Green Honeycreeper

Male Green Honeycreeper

Female Rufous-winged Woodpecker
in a tree near the path to Stone Bridge
La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica

Female Rufous-winged Woodpecker

Our guide, Erick Guzmán, giving us an overview of the 'biological corridor' in Costa Rica before our afternoon walk at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica

Pale-billed Woodpecker
probably the same one Mary, Catherine, Joel and I had seen earlier

Stripe-breasted Wren
(bad but all I got)

Broad-billed Motmot
(green chin feathers distinguish it from Rufous)

View of the broad bill of the Broad-billed Motmot

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Bright-rumped Attila

Plain Xenops

Female Summer Tanager

Our group reviewing the birds of the day in a meeting room at Selva Verde Lodge
Andy, Jerry, Carolyn (behind), Barbara, Catherine, Terri, Carl, Vickie, Erick, Mary, Keith

Going over the bird species list at the end of the day
Clockwise: Mary, Keith, Catherine, Jerry, Barbara, Carolyn, Terri, Carl, Vickie, Erick