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The clay-colored thrush is the national bird of Costa Rica. Although Costa Rica is a small country, it is in the bird-rich neotropical region and has a huge number of species for its area. The official bird list published by the Costa Rican Rare Birds and Records Committee of the Asociación Ornitológica de Costa Rica (AOCR) contained 948 ...
The emerald tanager (Tangara florida) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama. Described by the English ornithologists PL Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1869, it is a medium-sized species that has a length of 10.6–13 cm (4.2–5.1 in) and a mass of 18–20.5 g (0.63–0.72 oz).
The yellow-headed caracara (Milvago chimachima) is new-world bird of prey in the family Falconidae, of the Falconiformes order (true falcons, caracaras and their kin). [4] It is found as far north as Nicaragua, south to Costa Rica and Panamá, every mainland South American country (except Chile), and on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Yigüirro, Costa Rica's national bird. 941 bird species have been recorded in Costa Rica (including Cocos Island), more than all of the United States and Canada combined. More than 600 of the Costa Rican species are permanent residents, and upwards of 200 are migrants, spending portions of the year outside of the country, usually in North America.
The golden-browed chlorophonia (Chlorophonia callophrys) is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama . It is uncommon in subtropical or tropical moist montane forest above 750 m (2,460 ft) elevation.
In 1977, Costa Ricans chose the yigüirro as a national symbol (over many much more colorful birds that inhabit the country) due to its strong and melodious song that always comes during the start of the rainy season. In addition, unlike many of the forest songsters of Costa Rica, the present bird has been familiar to the general population ...
The king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is a large bird found in Central and South America.It is a member of the New World vulture family Cathartidae.This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina.
Cyanocorax argentigula is native to Costa Rica and Panama where it lives in moist cloud forest at altitudes between 2,000 and 3,200 m (6,600 and 10,500 ft). It is a relatively uncommon species, and at around 3,900 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi) its total area of occupancy is small, but the population seems stable and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its ...