Challenge answers

Answers to my find the creature challenge.  Where possible I have added an improved photograph. 

Chestnut-headed Oropendola (Psarocolius wagleri)

Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis)

Below:  Still cryptic, but orientation makes finding bird a little easier?

 

Common Basilisk (Basiliscus basiliscus) lizard

The Strawberry Poison-dart Frog is also called the Blue-jeans Frog.

A stunner.  So cute!  We saw many in one area of the rainforest.

Fledgling Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus)

 

Great Tinamou (Tinamus major)

As above, there were two present but here is larger photo of one.  

Southern black howler monkey (genus Alouatta) is the most common in the Central American rainforest.

Male Green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)

Amazon (C. amazona) vs. Green kingfisher (C. americana) (female?) 

I don't have a better photo.

Male Green Kingfisher

Greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata).

The greater sac-winged bat is a bat of the family Emballonuridae native to Central and South America. They are the most common bats seen in the rainforest, and they often roost on the outside of large trees.

At one of the lodges, we attended an evening presentation, given just for us, about bats.  The presenters were studying bats and the researcher was mist-netting them.  We saw three different species up close.   

Male Green Kingfisher

A little more about kingfishers:  They are one of my favorite bird families.  Worldwide there are so many beautiful kingfishers.  We saw both Amazon and Green kingfishers on our riverboat trip.  Kingfishers are challenging to photograph and they can be hard to identify where there isn't a good size comparison.  I also think that the Amazon kingfisher has a larger bill, but this is hard to tell in poor photos.

Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) is a permanent resident of Costa Rica and Belted kingfisher (M. alcyon) is a migrant in CR.  I saw a flyby of one or the other but, again, hard to identify

Long-tailed tyrant (Colonia colonus).  I feel I cheated a little on the photo above.

Charming little bird.

Spotted wood quail (Odontophorus guttatus)

Even though you might not know the bird, I think this photo was probably pretty easy.  There were six or seven foraging in the leaves together.  I was quite close, but I could not get an in focus photo of the birds while they were moving and scratching in the leaf litter.