Daily Archives: December 23, 2021

White-collard Manikin

White-collared Manikin: Dave and Dave’s Costa Rican Nature Pavilion, La Virgen, Costa Rica — We saw way more Manakins on these two trips than I have ever seen in Costa Rica before…or in Central America for that matter. And we got decent views of many of them. This was the most cooperative White-collared I have ever encountered. It came back repeatedly to work a particular bush off the hummingbird deck at Dave and Dave’s Costa Rican Nature Pavilion high on the bluff above the Sarapique River. Dave and Dave’s is one of my favorite photo destinations in Costa Rica…both Daves are excellent and knowledgeable hosts and they obviously take delight in providing birders (and photographers in particular) with the best opportunities to see and photograph the birds of both understory and canopy of the Caribbean lowland rain forest…while maintaining as natural a setting and environment for the birds as is humanly possible. It is not a zoo, and you never know what will show up, but it is a great place to spend quality time with a wide range of species. I had never seen a Manikin at Dave and Dave’s before this trip. 🙂 Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with multi-frame-noise-reduction. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos. Equivalent ISO 1600 @ f4 @ 1/500th. (And I would like to thank Dave and Dave again for their flexibility. Their willingness to change our appointment by a day and their under-cover observation platforms saved us from two days in a row of getting wet to the skin as we weathered our only serious rain of the trips.)