Smooth-billed Ani: Danta Corcovado Lodge, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica — Anis are strange birds…members of the Cuckoo family, though you might not guess that…with floppy long tails and that massive beak. I have seen Grove-billed Anis in Costa Rica before, in flocks and on fence wires along the road, but you have to go to the Pacific Lowlands to see the Smooth-billed. This one was well out in an overgrown pasture and I had to crop heavily and enlarge even with my full zoom. Sony Rx10ivat 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Photo and Apple Photos. ISO 500 @ f4 @ 1/500th.