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January 15, 2013 - Savegre River, Cerro de la Muerte, Mirador del Valle General, Talari Lodge
Another 6 AM pre-breakfast walk, up the steep trails of Savegre. Then, after breakfast, the long, steep, extremely winding road back to CR #2 and then further north to Tower Road on Cerro de la Muerte at 3,640 meters. This will be our highest-altitude birding. Good birds, including Volcano Junco and Timberline Wren.
Then a stop for lunch at Mirador de Valle General, where the birding was slow but we still managed two luck-outs, the Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch and the Grey-throated Wood Rail.
Then down to the steamy but excellent Talari Lodge on the lower southern slopes of the Cordilerra de Tallamanca, along the Rio General River. An excellent birding day, and for once some decent photos. No luck with owls.
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Birds |
Black Vulture |
Turkey Vulture |
Red-tailed Hawk |
Gray-necked Wood-Rail |
Spotted Sandpiper |
Scaled Pigeon |
White-tipped Dove |
Gray-chested Dove |
Squirrel Cuckoo |
Chestnut-collared Swift |
White-collared Swift |
Vaux's Swift |
Green Violetear |
White-crested Coquette |
Magnificent Hummingbird |
Long-billed Starthroat |
White-throated Mountain-gem |
Volcano Hummingbird |
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird |
Violet Sabrewing |
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird |
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird |
Blue-crowned Motmot |
Fiery-billed Aracari |
Olivaceous Piculet |
Red-crowned Woodpecker |
Hairy Woodpecker |
Laughing Falcon |
Streak-headed Woodcreeper |
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper |
Yellow-bellied Elaenia |
Mountain Elaenia |
Common Tody-Flycatcher |
Black-capped Flycatcher |
Black Phoebe |
Great Kiskadee |
Boat-billed Flycatcher |
Social Flycatcher |
Gray-capped Flycatcher |
Piratic Flycatcher |
Tropical Kingbird |
Black-crowned Tityra |
Masked Tityra |
Yellow-winged Vireo |
Brown-capped Vireo |
Brown Jay |
Blue-and-white Swallow |
Timberline Wren |
Tropical Gnatcatcher |
Black-faced Solitaire |
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush |
Sooty Thrush |
Clay-colored Thrush |
Tennessee Warbler |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Black-cheeked Warbler |
Wilson's Warbler |
Wrenthrush |
Cherrie's Tanager |
Blue-gray Tanager |
Palm Tanager |
Golden-hooded Tanager |
Speckled Tanager |
Bay-headed Tanager |
Red-legged Honeycreeper |
Green Honeycreeper |
Slaty Flowerpiercer |
Variable Seedeater |
Grayish Saltator |
Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch |
Rufous-collared Sparrow |
Volcano Junco |
Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager |
Hepatic Tanager |
Summer Tanager |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
Baltimore Oriole |
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Volcano Junco
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Blue-Crowned Motmot
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Gray-necked Wood-Rail
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Fiery-billed Araçari
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