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Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador Wildlife - 2012

Caledonian Sky    November 7th to 17th 2012

This cruise visited the Caribean coast of Costa Rica and Panama before a transit of the Panama Canal followed by the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica, Cocos Island and the coast of Ecuador.  For more details please go to CALEDONIAN SKY


Wildlife of Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador

Birds


 Grey-headed Chacalaca (Ortalis cinereiceps)

 

Blue-winged Teal (Anas versicolor)

Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri)

Bare-throated Tiger Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)

Striated Heron (Butorides striata)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Great Egret (Ardea alba)

Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)

Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)

Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)

Peruvian Pelican (Pelecanus thagus)

Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)

Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra)

Red-footed Booby (Sula sula)

Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)

Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)

Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)

Yellow-headed Caracara (Milvago chimachima)

Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia)

Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)

West Peruvian Dove (Zenaida meloda)

Croaking Ground Dove (Columbina cruziana)

White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi)

Ochre-bellied Dove (Leptotila ochraceiventris)

Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao)

Red-lored Amazon (Amazona autumnalis)

Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)

Black-mandibled Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus)

Pacific Hornero (Furnarius cinnamomeus)

Necklaced Spinetail (Synallaxis stictothorax)

Common Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum)

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)

Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus)

Long-tailed Mockingbird (Mimus longicaudatus)

Yellow-tailed Oriole (Icterus mesomelas)

Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)

Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus)

Passerini's Tanager(Ramphocelus passerinii)

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza)

Variable Seedeater (Sporophila corvina)

Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus)

Cocos Finch (Pinaroloxias inornata)


Fish


Bicolor Parrotfish (Cetoscarus bicolor)

 


Blue Tang(Acanthurus coeruleus

French Grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum)

Moorish Idol(Zanclus cornutus)

Ocean Surgeonfish(Acanthurus bahianus)

Sergeant Major Fish(Abudefduf saxatilis)


Spotted Trunkfish(Lactophrys bicaudalis)


Stoplight Parrotfish(Sparisoma viride)

Whitetail Gregory(Stegastes leucorus)

Yellowtail Damselfish(Microspathodon chrysurus)

  Other Sea related Creatures

American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)

Bottle-nosed Dolphins(Tursiops truncatus)

Other animals

 

Varigated Squirrel(Sciurus variegated)

Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni)

Spiny-taled Iguana(Ctenosaura similis)

Common Basilisk (Basiliscus basiliscus)

Central American Agouti (Dasyproctata punctata)

Isla Coiba Agouti (Dasyproctae coibae)


Poison Dart Frog