Saturday, March 4, 2017

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.


1 comment:

Linda Loken said...

I Love yellow birds too, thank you! especially for the Collared Redstart!