Cano Palma- Day 14

Helping out with bird banding at the station and birding around the garden was plentiful this morning. I saw more new species in a few hours than I had thought possible.

Violet-Crowned Wood Nymph

 

Swainsons Thrush
Golden-hooded Tanager

Wood Thrush
White-breasted Wood Wren

White-breasted Wood Wren

Keel-Billed Toucan
Bronzy Hermit
Oker-bellied Flycatcher
Checker-throated Antwren
Blue-gray Tanager
Buff-throated Saltator
Eye-ringed Flatbill
White-collared Manikin
Slaty-tailed Trogon

Slaty-tailed Trogon

Golden-hooded Tanager
Roufous-winged Woodpecker

Rufous-winged Woodpecker

Royal Flycatcher

Royal Flycatcher

Stripe-breasted Wren
Clay coloured Robin
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Mourning Warbler

Anole species

During birding we had a reptile spying on us. This anole was looking right over Chris' shoulder as we were scribing for the banders.

A large Turnip-tailed Gecko found his way into the station library which was a nice herping break in a day of birding.

Turnip-tailed Gecko

 Shorebird surveys at 2pm across the canal were also quite productive:

Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Tropical Cormorant
Great Egret
Black Vulture
Slatey Tailed Trogon
Acariari
Great Kiskadee
Tropical Kingbird
Sanderling
Black-bellied Plover
Variable Seedeater
Cinnamon Becard
Mealy Parrot
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Barn Swallow
Bare-throated Tiger Heron

After a day of birding we went back to herping at nightfall. Walking like herons through the wet swamp forests we found a slender anole and many more strawberry dart frogs.

Strawberry Dart Frog (Dendrobates pumilio)

 As I checked the vegetation in a plot a small greenish frog stands out on a leaf a little below my eye-level. The Olive Tree Frog has bright green bones which stand out through the skin on their legs.

Olive Tree Frog

The smallest frog I have ever seen jumps in the litter. A juvenile Litter Frog is very well camouflaged and much smaller than a dime.