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Yellow-Olive Flycatcher
Yellow-olive Flycatcher (Tolmomyias sulphurescens cinereiceps)- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica guanacaste province liberia santa rosa national park tolmomyias sulphurescens cinereiceps yellow-olive flycatcher
- Comments: 9
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Scarlet Macaw
Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao macao)- Stanley Jones
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- ara macao macao costa rica guanacaste province liberia liminal de abangares scarlet macaw
- Comments: 13
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Nutting's Flycatcher
Nutting’s Flycatcher (Myiarchus nuttingi flavidior)- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica guanacaste province liberia myiarchus nuttingi myiarchus nuttingi flavidior santa rosa national park
- Comments: 12
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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White-lored Gnatcatcher
White-lored Gnatcatcher (Polioptila albiloris albiloris)- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica guanacaste province liberia polioptila albiloris albiloris santa rosa national park white-lored gnatcatcher
- Comments: 9
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Bright-rumped Atilla
Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus cutreiotga)- Stanley Jones
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- attila spadiceus cutreiotga bright-rumped attila costa rica guanacaste province liberia santa rosa national park
- Comments: 12
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Ruddy Woodcreeper
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincia homchroa acedesta)- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica dendrocincia homchroa acedesta guanacaste province liberia ruddy woodcreeper santa rosa national park
- Comments: 6
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Royal Flycatcher
Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus mexicanus) This subspecies is known as the Northern Royal Flycatcher, especially when treated at the species level.- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica guanacste province liberia onychorhynchus coronatus mexicanus royal flycatcher santa rosa national park
- Comments: 11
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Lesser Ground Cuckoo
Lesser Ground Cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus erythropygus)- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica guanacaste province hotel guachipelin lesser ground cuckoo liberia morococcyx erythropygus erythropygus
- Comments: 11
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Lesser Greenlet
Lesser Greenlet (Pachysylvia decurtatus decurtatus)- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica guanacaste province lesser greenlet liberia pachysylvia decurtatus decurtatus santa rosa national park
- Comments: 10
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Rufous-tailed Jacamar, male
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda melanogenia) male- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica galbula ruficauda melanogenia guanacaste province liberia rufous-tailed jacamar santa rosa national park
- Comments: 10
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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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...- Stanley Jones
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- buteo magnirostris griseocauda costa rica guanacaste province liberia roadside hawk
- Comments: 23
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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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.- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica guanacaste province liberia malvaceae pavon's mallow pavonia cancellata
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- Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
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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...- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica guanacaste campus guanacaste province jacana spinosa spinosa liberia northern jacana universidad de costa rica
- Comments: 16
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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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)...- Stanley Jones
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- cordillera de guanacaste costa rica dynamine postverta four-spotted sailor guanacaste liberia nymphalidae rincon de la vieja national park
- Comments: 11
- Category: Butterflies & Moths
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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...- Stanley Jones
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- costa rica great-tailed grackle guanacaste province liberia quiscalus mexicanus peruvianus
- Comments: 19
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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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...- Gordon Hodgson
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- digiscoped liberia senegal coucal
- Comments: 2
- Category: Africa
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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...- Gordon Hodgson
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- digiscoped liberia little bee-eater
- Comments: 4
- Category: Africa
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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...- Gordon Hodgson
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- digiscoped liberia rattle woodland kingfisher
- Comments: 6
- Category: Africa
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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...- Gordon Hodgson
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- digiscoped liberia rattle woodland kingfisher
- Comments: 1
- Category: Africa
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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...- Gordon Hodgson
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- digiscoped fendel lesser striped swallow liberia
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- Category: Africa
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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...- Gordon Hodgson
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- cess river hodgson liberia
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- Category: Members Faces
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White-throated Bee-Eater 3
Another shot of the same bird posted earlier.- Gordon Hodgson
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- digiscoped liberia
- Comments: 3
- Category: Africa
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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...- Gordon Hodgson
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- digiscoped liberia rubber white-throated bee-eater
- Comments: 3
- Category: Africa
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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...- Gordon Hodgson
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- coastal digiscoped liberia pied crow
- Comments: 1
- Category: Africa
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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.- Gordon Hodgson
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- bee-eater digiscoped dry-season liberia white-throated
- Comments: 9
- Category: Africa