Congratulations Gail Hull and me (sort of)./Felicidades a Gail Hull y yo (mas o menos).
THEME: Migrant birds; early arrivals./Migrantes temprano.
PHOTO #1: A Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher.
(photo courtesy of SVBC member Gail Hull; taken at Finca Cantaros)
Photo #2: Baltimore Oriole. I didn’t actually get a photograph of this bird. What you see is merely an artist’s rendition.
Please join Greg Homer and the San Vito Bird Club for our 3rd Annual Hummingbird Big Sit…Sunday, August 27th from 7:30am to 9:30am.
Location: Finca Sofia (Lydia Vogt’s place); just inside the gate on the right side of the property. There is a large garden of Brazilian Cloak bushes (the ones with red and white flowers). These plants have been especially popular with many species of our hummingbirds.
Please bring a folding chair and something to drink if you wish. Please park outside the gate on the side of the road, near the gate.
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Por favor unete a nosotros y su guia Greg Homer por el tercero dia de colibirs (en silla); domingo, 27 de septiembre de 7:30am a 9:30am.
Lugar: Finca Sofia (propriedad de Lydia Vogt); el lado derecho immediatamente dentro de los portones. Hay muchas flores y plantes que son muy popular con los colibris!
Llevar una silla pegable y also para tomar, si quiere. El parqueo es en el lado del camino cerca de los portones.
(Stripe-throated Hermit photo courtesy of Jo Davidson)
Be the first one to correctly identify the species of this bird and win a plate of homemade cookies. This bird was seen and photographed near Playa Zancudo in August of 2017.
Send your response to: president@sanvitobirdclub.org
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Ser el primero en identificar este especies de aves y gana una plata de galletas (hecho en casa). Esta ave fue vista cerca de Playa Zancudo en agosto de 2017.
Envia su repuesta a: president@sanvitobirdclub.org
The American Ornithology Union has recently released the taxonomy
changes for 2017. In addition to changes to the names of two birds
that may be encountered most often by local members of the San
Vito Bird Club, there are also changes in the English names of two
other Costa Rican birds, as well as in the scientific names for a few
others. Let’s deal with the two most locally significant (and quite
sensible) changes first.
A bird that those of us in San Vito are very familiar with,
Aulachohrynchus prasinus, or Emerald Toucanet, is now called the
Northern Emerald-Toucanet. (Note that there is now a hyphen!)
This species was split from what is now called the Southern
Emerald-Toucanet, which occurs mainly in South America and lacks
the obvious blue patch on the throat.
Meet the Talamanca Hummingbird! This beautiful hummingbird
was, until recently, called the Magnificent Hummingbird, or Eugenes
fulgens. The species was split. Its new scientific name is Eugenes
spectabilis, and its new English name was derived from its home
range in the Talamanca Mountains. E. fulgens, which is now called
Rivoli’s Hummingbird, is found from Nicaragua north as far as the
United States.
The English names have also changed for the following Costa Rica
species:
●Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitas) is now Mangrove Rail (Rallus
longirostris).
●Prevost’s Ground-Sparrow (Melozone biarcuata) is now
Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow (Melozone cabanisi).
Scientific name changes are important to know, especially for those
SVBC members who post photos to the Asociación Ornitológico de
Costa Rica Facebook page. These include:
●Anas americana, American Wigeon, is now Mareca americana
●Anas discors, Blue-winged Teal, is now Spatula discors
●Anas cyanoptera, Cinnamon Teal, is now Spatula cyanoptera
●Anas clypeata, Northern Shoveler, is now Spatula clypeata
●Circus cyaneus, Northern Harrier, is now Circus hudsonius
●Sturnella militaris, Red-breasted Blackbird, is now Leistes
militaris
Theme: Bien venido a San Vito!/Welcome to San Vito!
Photo #1: Tropical Mockingbird (taken on the terrace of Las Cruces). Photo courtesy of Jo Davidson.
Photo #2: Black-bellied Whistling Ducks (taken on the lake a Finca Cantaros). Photo courtesy of Gail Hull.
Theme: Adios San Vito; hasta el proximo septiembre!
Photo #1: Scarlet Tanager (courtesy of Jo Davidson)
Photo #2: Northern Waterthrush (courtesy of Gail Hull)
Theme: Something special this way comes.
Photo #1: Black-chested Jay–a very rare sighting in Coto Brus./Black-chested Jay–un ave muy rara en esta zona. (photos courtesy of Pepe Castiblanco and: casabotaniabedandbreakfast.com)
Alison Olivieri correctly identified Quiz Bird #9 as a Golden-crowned Warbler. Note the all gray back and tail, all yellow belly and chest and striping through the eye and crown.
(FYI: San Vito Bird Club member Cecilia Sansonetti just missed getting her bird feeder list submitted in time but she IDed 34 species on her feeder including a Snowy-bellied hummingbird she lured by putting FLOWERS on her feeder.)
(Golden-crowned Warbler photo courtesy of Yeimiri Badilla)
This small bird was photographed on the Rio Negro trail by Yeimri Badilla in December. Can you identify this bird? /Este ave pequeno fue fotografiado por Yeimiri Badilla en el sendero Rio Negro en el mes de diciembre. Puede identifcarlo?
If you can identify this bird, send your answer to:
president@sanvitobirdclub.org
…no later than March 19th. Winner (if local) will receive one dozen home-made cookies.
Si puede identificar este ave, envia su repuesta a:
president@sanvitobirdclub.org
…antes de marzo 19. Si usted es correcto (y vive aqui en Coto Brus), ganaras 12 galletas hecho en casa!
(photo courtesy de Yeimiri Badilla)
Theme: Easy to ID vs. Hard to ID
Photo #1: Rose-breasted Grosbeak–easy to ID (photo by Gail Hull)
Photo #2: Empidonax flycatcher; possibly/probably? White-throated Flycatcher–hard to ID (photo by Sarah Beeson-Jones)
San Vito Bird Club 
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