Central America
Life in Monteverde, Costa Rica and points beyond
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Olive-Ridley Sea-Turtle Arribada
Playa Ostional from a distance
7,000-10,000 individuals nested
Not going to be a successful nest
Glistening of the Olive shells
Three returning to sea
Full nest
A few exhausted did not succeed
sea turtle videos
Olive-Ridley returning to sea
A tired female digging a nest
A glimpse at the number of turtles
Bird Island on the Rio Tempisque
Bird Island
Rio Tempisque
Mangroves
Black-crowned night heron
Anhinga's in the nest
Wood storks, spoonbills, and great egrets
Roseate spoonbills
wildlife around Guanacaste
Buena Vista
American crocodile
Whimbrel
Black vultures
Sanderlings
Green Iguana
Rosebelly spiny lizard
Cnemidophorus deppii
Variegated squirrel
Painted wood turtle
Wood stork
The dormiodor plant
Watch these plants wilt with tactile stimulus
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The Salt Flats along the gulf of Nicoya
Gulf of Nicoya
Fiddler crab
Flock of black-bellied tree ducks
Least sandpiper
Black-necked stilts
White ibis
Whimbrel with ruddy turnstones
Wilson's phalarope
Wood stork
Heliconia's
Spiny-tailed Iguana
Painted Wood Turtle (Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima)
Viper (Porthidium ophryomegas)
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