Site Report: Parque Nacional Tortuguero
Tortuguero
Tortuguero
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus)
Golden Silk Orb-weaver (Trichonephila clavipes)
Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) - Male
Central American Boa (Boa imperator)
Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Northern Neotropical River Otter (Lontra annectens)
Slaty-tailed Trogon (Trogon massena) - Male
Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)
Crambid Snout Moth (Crambidae sp_cr)
Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)
Asian House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
Plain Longtail (Spicauda simplicius)
Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth (Anticarsia gemmatalis)
Hover Fly (Palpada sp)
Short-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas nigrirostris)
Green Basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons)
Spinybacked Orbweaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis)
Proboscis Bat (Rhynchonycteris naso)
Central American Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)
Reticulate Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea reticulata)
Household Casebearer (Phereoeca uterella)
Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode quadrata)
Crambid Snout Moth (Herpetogramma sp)
Castniidi Moth (Telchin atymnius)
False Blister Beetle (Oedemeridae sp)
Long-billed Hermit (Phaethornis longirostris)
Skipper (Hesperiidae sp)
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Tortuguero
Tortuguero
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus)
Golden Silk Orb-weaver (Trichonephila clavipes)
Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) - Male
Central American Boa (Boa imperator)
Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Northern Neotropical River Otter (Lontra annectens)
Slaty-tailed Trogon (Trogon massena) - Male
Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)
Crambid Snout Moth (Crambidae sp_cr)
Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)
Asian House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
Plain Longtail (Spicauda simplicius)
Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth (Anticarsia gemmatalis)
Hover Fly (Palpada sp)
Short-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas nigrirostris)
Green Basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons)
Spinybacked Orbweaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis)
Proboscis Bat (Rhynchonycteris naso)
Central American Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)
Reticulate Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea reticulata)
Household Casebearer (Phereoeca uterella)
Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode quadrata)
Crambid Snout Moth (Herpetogramma sp)
Castniidi Moth (Telchin atymnius)
False Blister Beetle (Oedemeridae sp)
Long-billed Hermit (Phaethornis longirostris)
Skipper (Hesperiidae sp)
Marsh
Visits
- 2023-09-26:
- 2023-09-27: We started off the morning with a walk to the beach where we found a sea turtle heading back to the ocean after egg-laying. Then, we did a boat ride into the channels. Later that afternoon, we walked around in the national park trails. There was a vulture digging up baby sea turtles among other wildlife
- 2023-09-28:
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (96 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(13 records)
Class: Arachnids
(2 records)
- Order: Spiders (2 records)
Class: Insects
(10 records)
- Order: Beetles
(1 record)
- Family: False Blister Beetles
- False Blister Beetle (Oedemeridae sp)
- Order: Butterflies and Moths
(7 records)
- Family: Carpenter, Leopard, Goat, and Allied Moths
- Castniidi Moth (Telchin atymnius)
- Family: Crambid Snout Moths
- Crambid Snout Moth (Crambidae sp)
- Crambid Snout Moth (Herpetogramma sp)
- Family: Fungus Moths, Clothes Moths, & Allies
- Household Casebearer (Phereoeca uterella)
- Family: Skippers
- Plain Longtail (Spicauda simplicius)
- Skipper (Hesperiidae sp)
- Family: Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths
- Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth (Anticarsia gemmatalis)
- Order: Flies
(1 record)
- Family: Hover Flies
- Hover Fly (Palpada sp)
- Order: Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets
(1 record)
- Family: Lubber Grasshoppers
- Reticulate Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea reticulata)
Class: Malacostracans
(1 record)
- Order: Crabs
(1 record)
- Family: Ghost Crabs
- Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode quadrata)
Phylum: Chordates
(83 records)
Class: Birds
(76 records)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica)
- Russet-naped Wood-Rail (Aramides albiventris)
- Order: Cuckoos
(1 record)
- Family: Cuckoos
- Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(2 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Short-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas nigrirostris)
- White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(3 records)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Common Black-Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus)
- Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)
- Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (2 records)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (4 records)
- Order: Owls And Nightjars
(1 record)
- Family: Typical Owls
- Black-and-white Owl (Strix nigrolineata)
- Order: Parrots (5 records)
- Order: Pelicans
(17 records)
- Family: Anhingas
- Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
- Family: Cormorants
- Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum)
- Family: Herons
- Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)
- Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Western Cattle Egret (Ardea ibis)
- Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
- Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)
- Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- Green Ibis (Mesembrinibis cayennensis)
- Family: Jacanas
- Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
- Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
- Sanderling (Calidris alba)
- Family: Stilts and Avocets
- Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(30 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
- Melodious Blackbird (Dives dives)
- Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
- Family: Bananaquit
- Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
- Family: Cardinals and Allies
- Black-faced Grosbeak (Caryothraustes poliogaster)
- Family: New World Warblers
- Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)
- Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)
- Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
- Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Red-throated Ant-Tanager (Driophlox fuscicauda)
- Blue-gray Tanager (Thraupis episcopus)
- Palm Tanager (Thraupis palmarum)
- Olive-backed Euphonia (Euphonia gouldi)
- Variable Seedeater (Sporophila corvina)
- Family: Typical Antbirds
- Black-crowned Antshrike (Thamnophilus atrinucha)
- Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster)
- Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)
- Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus)
- Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus)
- Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)
- Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)
- Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)
- Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
- Family: Wrens
- Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus)
- Order: Trogons
(1 record)
- Family: Trogons
- Slaty-tailed Trogon (Trogon massena)
- Order: Vultures
(2 records)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides (6 records)
Class: Mammals
(3 records)
- Order: Bats
(1 record)
- Family: Sheath-tailed Bats
- Proboscis Bat (Rhynchonycteris naso)
- Order: Carnivorans
(1 record)
- Family: Mustelids
- Northern Neotropical River Otter (Lontra annectens)
- Order: Rodents
(1 record)
- Family: Agoutis
- Central American Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)
Class: Reptiles
(4 records)
- Order: Lizards and Snakes
(3 records)
- Family: Boas
- Central American Boa (Boa imperator)
- Family: Geckos
- Asian House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
- Family: Helmeted Lizards
- Green Basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons)
- Order: Turtles
(1 record)
- Family: Sea Turtles
- Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)