White-shouldered Tanager - Tachyphonus luctuosus

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White-shouldered Tanager - Tachyphonus luctuosus.  This is a male.
 NF Photo 110130 at Arenal Hanging Bridges

About White-shouldered Tanager on wiki
On Avianweb but nothing on youtube.

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Broad-winged Hawk - Buteo platypterus

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Broad-winged Hawk - Buteo platypterus

 NF Photo 110203 at La Ensenada in the early morning sun, 06.20h

About Broad-winged Hawk on wiki
chick and juvenile on youtube

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Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana - Alma-de-gato

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Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana - Alma-de-gato
 NF Photo 110129 at  Reserve Biologica le Selva

About  Squirrel Cuckoo on wiki
on youtube

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Dusky-faced Tanager - Mitrospingus cassinii

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Dusky-faced Tanager - Mitrospingus cassinii

 NF Photo 110130 at Gavilan Lodge

About Dusky-faced Tanager on wiki and that was not much. :( And no video either.

Fairly common in wet Caribbean lowlands the book sais.

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White-throated Magpie-Jay - Calocitta formosa

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White-throated Magpie-Jay - Calocitta formosa 

 NF Photo 110202 at La Ensenada (the restaurant)

This is a member of the Magpie-jay family. A member that don´t hesitate to steal your lunch or dinner. Or breakfast. Always checking for things to catch if you don´t look out. But it is beautiful and fun, as long as you don´t live there I guess.

About White-throated Magpie-Jay on wiki
on youtube

World Bird Wednesday LV

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Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea

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Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea 

 NF Photo 110202 at salines in Colorado

This heron looks bigger then it is. My book says 61 cm in hight. That is not much.
More about it on wiki. Little Blue Heron

Bird Photography Weekly 171

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Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus

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Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus

 NF Photo 110202 , Salines at Colorado

NF Photo 110203

About Semipalmated Plower on wiki
on youtube

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