Fauna

Fat Birder

Sights & Sounds of CR





Lizard (anole?) in leaf litter.
These little fellows can scare the crap out of you occasionally. There you are standing there quietly minding your own bussiness, checking something out & suddenly they zip through rustling the dead leaves, sounding much bigger than they are & of course your first thought is "snake"! Whew! Many a lizard has caught us off guard!


Oxen on Playa Negra (black beach) in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Limon.
In Costa Rica they actually use these guys alot. These 2 were done working for the day & took a trip to the beach instead of following the road where their owner wanted them to go. Earlier in the day we watched as they hauled 20 foot logs down a hillside path.



This is a Yellow-headed Gecko (in espanol...Gecko de cabeza amarilla)


In case you haven't already guessed,this is an Owl Butterfly. They measure about 7" across.


Hog-nosed Bat. This one fell out of a palm while the gardener was pulling off dead fronds. He said once they are on the ground that they can't fly up properly. They need to climb something taller to get going. Apparently many fall prey to ants if they are stranded on the ground.


We are in the habit (not a good one mind you!) of turning rocks etc. over to see what lurks beneath. This is a "Large Forest Floor Millipede" & they are large as their name implies.





A "beach" monkey. White-faced Capuchin (Mono Cariblanco). Pretty fierce little things! Big teeth. Because tourists feed them they are quite aggressive & are known to steal cameras etc.





"Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth". This is a male. He was sound asleep about 3 feet up the tree. He was so close e could have touched him....but didn't of course!





Just too cool! A "walking Stick"





The cocoon of a Blue Morpho Butterfly. The coccoon is about 5' or 6" long.