costa rica

A bamboo branch passed over the center of the bird's bill in the original image. I performed "surgery" using Photoshop to remove the branch and to repair the bill.

This striking, small- to medium-sized hawk is a resident of the canopy of moist tropical forests, and has a limited range in Central America and nearby northern South America. It sits quietly in the canopy, waiting for a prey individual (includes a wide range of small vertebrates) to reveal...

This bird had just returned to its perch on a barbed wire fence with the insect it had caught on the wing.

Raining hard around our lodge (Celeste Mountain Lodge). Had to drive around to west side of the mountain for photobirding.

A distant shot, severely cropped.

In my travels in the Americas, I have frequently caught glimpses of this common species of tropical and subtropical cuckoo foraging in dense vegetation, and flying quickly from one foraging site to another, but on only a few of these occasions was the bird positioned so I could try for a...

This small bird was high in a tree a great distance away, and even with the camera optics I used the photo had to be severely cropped, reducing photo sharpness and other qualities. The white bird was largely against a white sky, so I tried to orient my position to at least view the head of the...

I was easily able to get this photo because the bird had been attracted to a fruit feeder.

The Mangrove Black-Hawk was formerly considered a separate species. Now it is classified as a subspecies of the Common Black-Hawk

This bird, in dense shrubbery at edge of river was very difficult to photograph from our unstable boat. Hence the less than perfect view of the bird, and mediocre photographic quality, but I was happy to get any photograph of this species.