Posts in Category: Selve Verde
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Green Iguana: Selva Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica, March 2025 — Coming back from a excellent morning of photography at Dave and Dave’s Costa Rican Nature Park, we got to the dinning hall at the Selva Verde just in time for a visit from this huge Iguana. It had to be 7 feet long from snout to tail tip, and the body itself was at a least 3 feet long, and the size of a small bull dog. (It had that look too.) They are called Green Iguanas because the young are bright green. (I encountered one on the way back from lunch. Photos tomorrow maybe.) This big adult is more grayish orange and was after the remnants of the fruit put out that morning for the birds. I have seen iguanas like this high in the trees, but never this close. Impressive! Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 226 and 585mm equivalents. (It is times like this when I really appreciate having a zoom.) Program mode with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Bare-throated Tiger Heron
Bare-throated Tiger Heron: Selve Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica, March 2025 — Out on the banks of the Sarapiqui early in the morning, we found this Bare-throated Tiger Heron hanging among the rocks…maybe he fancied a change from fish…a lizard might go down well for breakfast. 🙂 There are 6 speices of Tiger Herons in Central and South America. All share the striped feather patterns. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Yellow-throated Toucan
Yellow-throated Toucan: Selve Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica, March 2025 — As we gathered for a late afternoon prowl around the grounds at Selve Verde, we were greeted by this bold Yellow-throated Toucan, certainly one of the emblem birds of the American tropical rainforest. This bird has had three different names since I have been visiting the rainforest. Perhaps Yellow-throated will stick for a while. It is the largest Toucan in Costa Rica. The word, Toucan, comes, apparently, from the croaking call. Like most Toucans, the Yellow-throated is a voracious egg and chick predator, and not, despite its cheerful colors, a good neighbor at all. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Common Tody Flycatcher
Common Tody Flycatcher: Selve Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica, March 2025 — We got to Selve Verde late in the afternoon and were shown to our rooms, in the new block of rooms right by the river, and this was one of the first birds to greet us. Not an uncommon bird, but one that is sometimes hard to see. (I have come back from Costa Rica many times without having seen it.) A bright little bird of thickets and undergrowth, the Common Tody Flycatcher found in Eastern Costa Rica and Panama is a sub-species with more green in the back than most. “Tody” is from the French and Latin for “small bird” and the Tody Flycatcher is not related to the Tody family of colorful small birds of the Caribbean islands. It is a tyrant flycatcher, closely related most of our North American flycatchers. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.