Orange-collared Manakin: Danta Corcovado Lodge, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica — Manakins are strange little birds. Round bodied with mostly short tails, and not much neck at all…as though someone stuck a beak and feet on ball. There are 9 species of Manakins in Costa Rica, 2 of which can only be found in the Pacific lowlands and foothills of Costa Rica and adjacent Panama. Danta Corcovado Lodge is and extreme example of an “open plan” lodge. Both the bar and dinning area and the reception and lounge area are very elegant, though rustic sheds, roofed but without walls. The photo shows the dinning area. Between the dinning and the lounge sheds there is a strip of tall dense bamboo. In the morning when we went for breakfast just at dawn (the photo is at lunch time), that strip was very dark, and there were always birds in there, tempting us, and testing the low light limits of our cameras. This male Yellow-collared Manakin was there to entertain us one morning as we ate…or attempted to eat while watching and photographing the bird. Sony Rx10iv at 580mm equivalent. Program mode with wildlife modifications and multi-frame noise reduction. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos. Equivalent ISO 6400 @ f4 @ 1/100th and 1/30th.