Bare-throated Tiger-Heron: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, December 2023 — Not far up the Sarapiqui from the dock our boat captain started maneuvering us in close to the far bank of the river, clearly looking for something. What we saw first was the immature (fledgling) Tiger-Heron on a downed tree trunk at the waterline. But then the adult emerged from the vegetation and gave us good looks. The fledgling was becoming increasingly agitated, assuming all kinds of begging postures, and sure enough the adult came over and deposited a largish fish from its crop into the beak its offspring…though the fledgling was fully as large as the adult. It was, as our guide pointed out, a real “geographic moment”…all any wildlife photographer could want. This sequence of shots does not do it full justice…but it is a close as I could come. 🙂 OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm IS zoom at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator and assembled in FrameMagic.