December 20th 2019, we took off for a new
adventure of three weeks: Costa Rica.
We had been in the Caribbean before (Guadeloupe,
Martinique, Cuba) but never with a group and never really in the jungle, so…..
The good thing about the trip was, that we
experienced nature in a way we’d never did before; like searching for Tarantulas
or Vipers in the rainforest, while walking on slippery paths in pitch darkness…
Or what about going by boat to the jungle on a
peninsula and having to jump on and off that boat in the breakers of the
Pacific!
The good news however was, that we survived well
and saw and heard many new mammals, birds, insects, spiders, amphibians and
reptiles. The diversity of flora and fauna in Costa Rica is amazing!
Sometimes we saw very funny creatures like the
Quetzal and the Wheelbug and more often very beautiful animals like birds of prey, butter-
dragon- and damselflies and reptiles. In terms of birds alone we identified and
captured about 45 species!
You can imagine that it was very difficult to
make a choice of all that interesting material, but I hope to give you by this
choice a good impression of our fascinating trip.
Forgive me for posting more photos than I usually
do ;-)
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| En route, Monteverde |
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| Eyelash Viper, White-headed Capuchin Monkey |
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| Yellow-headed Caracara |
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| Pacific Ocean |
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| Tarantula spider, Tarantula hawk |
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Common black hawk, Broad winged hawk,
Roadside hawk
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Scarlet Macaw
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| Central American Whiptail |
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| Corcovado National Park |
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Funny creatures: Wheelbug and Resplendent
Quetzal
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| Corcovado beach crab |
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Swallowtails (also Corcovada beach)
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Roseate Skimmer
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Young plumed Basilisk
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Dark Horse Lubber
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Black spiny-tailed iguana in
Bougainvillea |
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| Wild Coleus plant? |
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| Mangrove hummingbird, purple-throated Mountain gem, green-crowned briljant |
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| Great-tailed Grackle (in the rain ;-) |
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| Pacific Ocean |
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Green-and-black poison dart frog, Strawberry poison frog, Red-eyed leaf frog
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Damselflies: Argia Fumipennis?, Argia
frequentula
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| Emerald Toucanet |
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China Roses
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| Turkey Vulture |
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Sunset and black vultures, Manuel Antonio
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