Hello!! My name is Jo Garrett and I’m a television producer based in Madison, Wisconsin. I am also a BIG-TIME Osa admirer since I had the pleasure of traveling there to shoot a documentary called, “Our Birds.” We produced the documentary for Wisconsin Public Television and you can view it at this link: http://wpt.org/ourbirds/ The [...]
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IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO SPEND YOUR HOLIDAYS IN THE RAINFOREST! DECEMBER 17-22 Space is still available on our Holiday Birding Trip, so join us for spectacular birding through the tropical forests of the Osa Peninsula! This five-day trip includes extensive birding, forest hikes, and nightly talks and excursions with our staff of biologists and [...]
Of all the hummingbird species, the coquette males that are most highly adorned with ornate feathers that are there to likely help in territorial defense and enhance species recognition. The White-crested Coquette (Lophornis adorabilis) is the only coquette found here on the Osa Peninsula and is regionally endemic to south western Costa Rica and Western [...]
categories: Cerro Osa, Friends of the Osa, Osa Biodiversity Center, Osa Peninsula, Tropical Birds, Wildlife
The Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) can be found here on the Osa Peninsula and can often be seen wandering through humid forest canopies and open areas with its other Honeycreeper relatives the Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), the Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) and the Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana). For those novice birders trying to get their [...]
This week as promised I am bringing you the Turquoise Cotinga (Cotinga ridgwayi). This is definitely one of those species of bird that makes you go “WOW” when you see it. This is also one of Costa Rica’s most sensitive species to loss of forest habitat. BirdLife International has this Cotinga species listed as Vulnerable [...]
Of the eight woodpecker species that are found on the Osa Peninsula, the Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis) is the largest with a length of 35 cm (14 inches) rivaling only the superficially similar, and range overlapping Lineated Woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus). In fact, the Pale-billed Woodpecker is most closely related to the extremely elusive north temperate [...]
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