The bird’s bubbling and gurgling mating song is unmistakable. Listen for yourself: The common name “oropendola” comes from the bird’s bright-yellow tail, which swings like a golden pendulum during the ...

In the last column, I described the first part of a January trip to Costa Rica that my ... red belly and a long tail with green and white feathers, the quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala ...

Meet the long-tailed manakin. A species of bird where the males are pretty, but the females hold all the cards. The long-tailed manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis) is known as the saltarín toledo in ...

(MENAFN- Costa Rica News) Costa Rica is a world-renowned destination for bird watching, attracting thousands of ecotourists each year with its stunning biodiversity. Despite covering only 0.03% of ...

hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica. For almost two decades, ornithologist James Zook has been ...

hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica. For almost two decades, ornithologist James Zook has been ...

In northwest Costa Rica, we studied a beautiful bird called the long-tailed manakin, coloured blue and black. It sings an amazing song and has a mesmerising ‘lekking’ courtship display where ...