Fiery-billed Aracari: Las Cruces Biological Research Station (OTS), San Vito, Costa Rica — We saw our first Fiery-billed Aracari at Danta Corcovado Lodge, but it was high in a tree from the observation platform, and I could not get the kind of photo that I wanted. The Fiery-billed Aracari is a common bird with a limited range…restricted to the lowland forests and foothills of the Pacific slope of Costa Rica and Panama. Like all toucans, its love of bananas brings it to feeding stations, even the intermittent one at the Organization for Tropical Studies Las Cruces Biological Station. Edwin, our guide, went into town our first night there to buy bananas to stock the feeders off the patio outside the dinning hall just for us, and we were there at first light, before breakfast, to see what birds would come. The Fiery-billed Aracari was an early arrival. For a lover of birds and photography, it does not get any better than this (though we can always hope for better light). Sony Rx10iv at 400-550mm equivalent. Program mode with wildlife modifications and multi-frame noise reduction. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos. Equivalent ISO 4000 and 6400 @ f4 @ 1/320, 1/250, and 1/500.