Costa Rican Animals Observed

• Marine Toad
• Gladiator Frog
• Red Poison-dart Frog ("Blue Jean" Frog)
• Green Poison-arrow Frog
• American Crocodile
• Black River Turtle ("Gate Turtled")
• Fer-de-lance (viper snake, most aggressive in Costa Rica)
• Rainforest Hognosed Pit-Viper
• Green Iguana
• Ctenosaur
• Ground Anole
• Slender Anole
• Central American Whiptail
• Gray Four Eyed Opossum
• White-faced Capuchin
• Mantled Howler Monkey
• Central American Spider Monkey
• Red-backed Squirrel Monkey
• Brown-throated 3-toed Sloth
• Nine-banded Armadillo
• Red-tailed Squirrel
• Variegated Squirrel
• Mexican Hairy Porcupine
• Central American Agougti
• Jaguarundi (in zoo)
• Ocelot (in zoo)
• Margay (in zoo)
• Jaguar (in zoo)
• Mountain Lion (in zoo)
• Gray Fox (in zoo)
• Coyote (could hear them)
• Stripped Hognosed Skunk
• White Nosed Coati
• Bairds Tapir (in zoo)
• Whited Lipped Peccary (in zoo)
• Whited Tailed Deer
• Dino Lizard
• Tent Bat
• Fruit Bat
• Yellowbelly Gecko
• Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
• Porpoise
• Sail Fish

 

Costa Rican Birds Observed

• Brown Pelican
• Anhinga
• Cattle Egret
• Great Egret
• Crested Guan
• Turkey Vulture
• Black Vulture
• King Vulture
• Crested Caracara
• Laughing Falcon
• Collarded Forest Falcon
• Scarlet Macaw
• Mealy Parrot
• Red-lored Parrot
• Pauraque
• Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
• Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
• Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
• Green-crowned Brillant Hummingbird
• Violaceous Trogan
• Belted Kingfisher
• Amazon Kingfisher
• Turquoise-browed Motmot
• Collard Aracari
• Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
• Keel-billed Toucan
• Emerald Toucanet
• White-collarded Manakin
• Snowy Cotinga
• Great Kiskadee
• Boat-billed Flycatcher
• Social Flycatcher
• Clay-colored Robin (National Bird)
• White-throated Magpie-Jay
• Montezuma's Oropendola
• Blue-gray Tanager
• Palm Tanager
• Whited-tailed Hawk
• Brown Booby
• Scarlet-rumped Tanager
• Plover
• Whimbrel
• Flying Fish

Costa Rican Fauna & FloraObserved

• Cloud Forest in Rincon dela Vieja
• Humid Subtropical Rainforest (primary and secondary)
• Low Land Wet Forest in Manel Antonio
• Epiphytes
• Palms (Cocos and Coconut Palm)
• Coffee Plantations
• Banana Plantations
• Pinapple Plantations
• Sugar Cane
• Bromeliad
• Climbers & Stranglers
• Ficus Tree - Buttresses
• Symbionic relationship (fig & wasp)
• "Umbrella" Plant
• Monkey Chains

 

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