Osa Peninsula Chronicles

Not only does the White-whiskered Puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis) rank pretty high on the cuteness scale, it is also an interesting species from an ecological perspective.  Puffbirds are most closely related to jacamars, toucans and woodpeckers.  They are primarily insect and arthropod eaters and are considered to be flycatching birds along with tyrant flycatchers, and nunbirds.  [...]

Friends of the Osa has a handful of upcoming conservation trips with spaces available.  Read more here or go to the Conservation Trips page on our website. Osa Peninsula Christmas Birding Tour Osa Christmas Bird Count 2011 Conservation Birding Trips Osa Peninsula Christmas Birding Tour December 12 – 18, 2010 Spend 5 days/6 nights in one [...]

This is a hilarious video taken at the Greg Gund Conservation Center at Cerro Osa.  The kung-fu style fight scene starts at 37 seconds!  Check it out and pass it along to your friends.

The Costa Rican Ornithological Union’s second annual conference was held July 28 – 30th 2010 in the school of biology at the University of Costa Rica in the capital of San Jose.  The conference was dedicated to Daniel Janzen and his pioneering work in the field of conservation and reforestation in Costa Rica over the [...]

Have you ever been out at night driving along a country road and been startled by red ember eyes darting across the hood of the car, and then to have it happen every few hundred meters or so?  If you are driving anywhere on roads, especially dirt roads, from South Texas on down to Argentina [...]

The Blue-crowned Motmots (Momotus momota) have been spending a lot of time around a Nance tree (Byrsonima crassifolia), a prolific fruit producing tree in the garden here at Friends of the Osa’s Osa Biodiversity Center.  Lately there have been quite a few hanging around giving their distinctive soft low pitch “moot moot” call at dawn [...]