{"id":212,"date":"2013-08-27T21:27:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/?p=212"},"modified":"2013-08-27T21:27:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:27:43","slug":"watch-for-parrots-when-birding-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/watch-for-parrots-when-birding-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch for Parrots when Birding Costa Rica!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Costa Rica boasts several species of parrots, parakeets, and two spectacular macaws. The smaller members of this family are generally known as parakeets while the larger, “square-tailed” birds are known as parrots, and the macaws are basically big parrots with long tails.<\/p>\n

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A pair of Scarlet Macaws at Carara National Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No matter where you go birding in Costa Rica, you have a good chance of seeing at least one or two species of parrots and parakeets. In San Jose and other parts of the Central Valley, Crimson-fronted Parakeets have become adapted to nesting on buildings. Long-tailed parakeets seen in cities and towns in the Central Valley are this species.<\/p>\n

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A pair of Crimson-fronted Parakeets in Costa Rica.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Parrots are also a common sight in the lowlands and middle elevations, one of the most common being the beautiful White-crowned Parrot.<\/p>\n

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White-crowned Parrot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Red-lored Parrots are one of the more common parrot species in the humid lowlands (especially because they are adapted to edge habitats), while the White-fronted Parrot is commonly seen in the Pacific northwest and other other dry habitats, including parts of the Central Valley.<\/p>\n

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A White-fronted Parrot from the Montezuma area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In humid middle elevations, foothills, and forested areas in the humid lowlands, the exotic Brown-hooded Parrot is seen once in a while as it flies high overhead in flocks of a dozen of so birds. It can be tough to get good shots of this species but they sometimes visit the fruit feeders at Laguna del Lagarto for fantastic photo opportunities.<\/p>\n

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A beautiful Brown-hooded Parrot from Laguna del Lagarto, Costa Rica.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another, close look at this exotic bird.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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and one more look from behind!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Identify and learn about parrots, parakeets, and other bird species with the Costa Rica Birds Field Guide app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Costa Rica boasts several species of parrots, parakeets, and two spectacular macaws. The smaller members of this family are generally known as parakeets while the larger, “square-tailed” birds are known as parrots, and the macaws are basically big parrots with long tails. No matter where you go birding in Costa Rica, you have a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19,6,12,20,1],"tags":[11,8,7,16,10,9,28,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingfieldguides.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}