Green is Great

Especially when it is a bird.

Like a hummingbird.

(Purple-throated Mountain-gem on the left, Coppery-headed Emeralds on the right.)

 (Green Violetear)

 (Green-crowned Brilliant)

(Crowned Woodnymph)

 Or a Great Green Macaw

 Emerald Toucanets have different shades of green

as does the Orange-chinned Parakeet.

 While the female Green Honeycreeper is almost fluorescent green, she is so bright.

 (The male is kind of aqua, not quite green and not quite blue.)

And the Emerald Tanager is the same shade as the leaves,but its head is so bright it could have been in the yellow section.

 

Yellow is always my favourite

There are a lot of yellow birds in Costa Rica. We saw a number of them.

The Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher is only partially yellow.

The Black-cowled Oriole is more black than yellow, but what yellow there is, is  very bright.

The yellow in the Prothonotary Warbler is stunning.

There is a special Yellow Warbler in Costa Rica, the subspecies Mangrove Warbler.

In an area full of tanagers, it is not surprising that at least one is yellow.  This is the Silver-throated Tanager.

There are at least three yellow euphonias.
This is the Yellow-thoated Euphonia.

The Yellow-crowned Euphonia

And one that we first saw several years ago in Mexico, the Scrub Euphonia. The name refers to the bird's preferred habitat rather than a reference to its appearance or behaviour.

I leave my favourite yellow bird for the last.  The Collared Redstart was one of the cutest birds we saw in Costa Rica.  Though it was only in one region that we visited, it was common enough that we saw it several times.

Blue Birds come in Many Colours

Blue Dacnis

Shining Honeycreeper

Red-Legged Honeycreeper

Two Blue-grey Tanagers with the partially blue Hooded Tanager

Yes, I really like blue birds.