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  1. Yellow-Olive Flycatcher

    Yellow-Olive Flycatcher

    Yellow-olive Flycatcher (Tolmomyias sulphurescens cinereiceps)
  2. Scarlet Macaw

    Scarlet Macaw

    Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao macao)
  3. Nutting's Flycatcher

    Nutting's Flycatcher

    Nutting’s Flycatcher (Myiarchus nuttingi flavidior)
  4. White-lored Gnatcatcher

    White-lored Gnatcatcher

    White-lored Gnatcatcher (Polioptila albiloris albiloris)
  5. Bright-rumped Atilla

    Bright-rumped Atilla

    Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus cutreiotga)
  6. Ruddy Woodcreeper

    Ruddy Woodcreeper

    Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincia homchroa acedesta)
  7. Royal Flycatcher

    Royal Flycatcher

    Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus mexicanus) This subspecies is known as the Northern Royal Flycatcher, especially when treated at the species level.
  8. Lesser Ground Cuckoo

    Lesser Ground Cuckoo

    Lesser Ground Cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus erythropygus)
  9. Lesser Greenlet

    Lesser Greenlet

    Lesser Greenlet (Pachysylvia decurtatus decurtatus)
  10. Rufous-tailed Jacamar, male

    Rufous-tailed Jacamar, male

    Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda melanogenia) male
  11. Roadside Hawk

    Roadside Hawk

    Roadside Hawk (Buteo magnirostris griseocauda) Fourteen subspecies are recognized with two being recorded for Costa Rica. Subspecies griseocauda is restricted to northwestern Costa Rica while subspecies petulans is found in southwestern Costa Rica. Photographed on top of the security fence...
  12. Pavon's Mallow

    Pavon's Mallow

    Pavons Mallow (Pavonia cancellata: Malvaceae) This plant stood about 1 m (3.3 ft) tall with flowers about 5 cm (2 in) across. Near Liberia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Disturbed roadside in dry tropical forest at ca. 82 m (270 ft) elevation. Afternoon setting sun.
  13. Northern Jacana

    Northern Jacana

    Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa spinosa) Three subspecies are recognized with only the nominate being found in Costa Rica. Sexes similar. Photographed in Liberia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Universidad de Costa Rica, Guanacaste Campus. Open marsh dominated by Creeping Water-primrose...
  14. Four-spotted Sailor

    Four-spotted Sailor

    Four-spotted Sailor (Dynamine postverta: Nmphalidae) The attractive little butterfly has a wingspan of ca. 7.0-8.3 cm (2.75-3.25 in). Photographed northeast of Liberia in Rincon de la Vieja National Park, Cordillera de Guanacaste, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica at ca. 700 m (2,297 ft)...
  15. Great-tailed Grackle (male)

    Great-tailed Grackle (male)

    Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus peruvianus) Eight subspecies are recognized with only subspecies peruvianus being mapped for Costa Rica. Species sexually dimorphic. Photographed in Liberia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Universidad de Costa Rica, Guanacaste Campus. Open marsh at...
  16. Senegal Coucal on Leafless Stem

    Senegal Coucal on Leafless Stem

    The Senegal Coucal is widely distributed across West Africa south of the Sahara, and is very common in Liberia's coastal savannah habitat. Last year, my wife and I were in Liberia for 6 weeks during the wet season. This coucal stopped on a leafless stem in an abandoned garden, just long enough...
  17. Little Bee-Eaters

    Little Bee-Eaters

    One more of the 40-plus species we encountered at the University of Liberia's Fendel campus. In the coastal savannas of Liberia, the Little Bee-Eater is a locally common migrant breeder during the dry season (Dec-Apr). When foraging these bee-eaters perch low, ever alert for a passing insect...
  18. Woodland Kingfisher 2

    Woodland Kingfisher 2

    Also known as the Senegal Kingfisher, this alcedinid is actually quite widely distributed throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. Nonetheless its harsh rattle call and flash of irridescent blue in flight never cease to get a birder's attention! This species is subject to some migratory movement...
  19. Woodland Kingfisher 1

    Woodland Kingfisher 1

    Also known as the Senegal Kingfisher, this alcedinid is actually quite widely distributed throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. Nonetheless its harsh rattle call and flash of irridescent blue in flight never cease to get a birder's attention! This species is subject to some migratory movement...
  20. Lesser Striped Swallows

    Lesser Striped Swallows

    On our short trip to Liberia in 2007, an old friend took me to check out the birds at the Fendel campus of the University of Liberia, several miles north of Monrovia. I remembered this location as being something of a birding hot spot; and on this visit, once again, we were not disappointed...
  21. Hodgsons at Cess River, Liberia

    Hodgsons at Cess River, Liberia

    In January 2007, my wife, Paula, and I were in Liberia for a short visit. Here we are about to cross the Cess River (not far from where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean). A 7-mile trail on the other side would take us to the mission school where we lived and worked from 1980 to 1990. You can...
  22. White-throated Bee-Eater 3

    White-throated Bee-Eater 3

    Another shot of the same bird posted earlier.
  23. White-throated Bee-Eater 2

    White-throated Bee-Eater 2

    In January my wife and I were in Liberia for a short visit and stopped by the old home place (not much more than a clearing surrounded by secondary rain forest) where my family once lived and where I grew up. Today the house is gone, having been completely destroyed during the recent civil war...
  24. Pied Crow

    Pied Crow

    Though absent from closed forest, the Pied Crow is not uncommon in Liberia's more open coastal region where it scavenges for food near human habitations. This individual was one of a small group that seemed to spend the hottest hours of the day patrolling a rocky ridge not far from the ocean...
  25. White-throated Bee-Eater 1

    White-throated Bee-Eater 1

    The White-throated Bee-Eater is a very common dry-season visitor to Liberia. This individual, which lacks central tail streamers, is probably a juvenile.
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