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Toucans in Costa Rica

Chestnut Mandible Toucans courting on the Osa Penninsula One is always thrilled to see these wonderful birds. Sometimes they sit still long enough to…

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Published May 15, 2025
Categorized as Birds of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Costa Rica 2025Tagged birds in Costa Rica, Chestnut mandible toucans, Nature in Osa Penninsula, Nature photography, toucans, toucans courting
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Last Morning on the Osa Peninsula

Our day for a dolphin tour with Golfo Dulce Exploradores All packed and ready to head back to San Jose, we left our bags…

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Published February 6, 2023
Categorized as Birds of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Costa Rica 2023Tagged dolphins, hummingbird chick, kiskadee chicks, Macaws, terns, tri-colored heron, vultures drinking
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Penultimate day in Costa Rica

Birds, bugs and frog’s eggs Another early start to the day on the property yielded a Yellow Warbler (maybe even one from the Pioneer…

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Published February 6, 2023
Categorized as Birds of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Costa Rica 2023Tagged buts, flowers, frog eggs, Macaws, Mealy parrot, osa peninsula, toucans, white-crowned parrot
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Only 2.5 days left on the Osa Peninsula

We decided to spend most of the day on the property of the Private Villas. My early morning (5:30) visit to the Ranch House…

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Published February 6, 2023
Categorized as Birds of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Costa Rica 2023Tagged basilisk lizard, butterflies, frigatebird, hummingbirds, Macaws, toucans, white-crowned parrots
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Day 2 on the Osa Peninsula

Getting up early to see the birds! We had a local Lineated Woodpecker in our backyard most mornings. The tree there seemed to be…

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Published February 5, 2023
Categorized as Birds of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Costa Rica 2023Tagged bare-throated tiger heron, blue-grey tanager, caiman, golden-hodded tanager, hellow-bellied aelenia, lineated woodpecker, piratic flycatcher, turtles
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Osa Peninsula

Coming to the Osa Peninsula felt like coming home after the wonderful week I spent there last year with my sister and brother-in-law. It…

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Published February 5, 2023
Categorized as Birds of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Costa Rica 2023Tagged kingbird, kingfisher, matapalo, osa peninsula, spider monkeys, whimbrel, yellow-headed caracara
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Macaws mating high in a tree

One of the amazing bird types we saw a lot of on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica were the very large and spectacularly…

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Published January 25, 2022
Categorized as Birds of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged bird photography, birds of Costa Rica, birds of Osa Peninsula, mating birds, mating Macaws, nature, Scarlet Macaws
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Hello, and welcome. My name is Marjorie Melnick. I am a senior lecturer at UMass/Amherst and an avid nature photographer. This blog documents my humble photo adventures, and I warmly invite you to follow along!

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