Joppa Flats Volunteer Trip to Costa Rica
July 2009

Selva Verde Lodge, La Selva Biological Station,
Rain Forest Aerial Tram, 7/16-18

We stayed 2 nights at Selva Verde Lodge, spent a day birding at the La Selva Biological Station, and
birded at the Rain Forest Aerial Tram on our way from Sarapiqui back to San Jose.

Birds

young male
Bare-necked Umbrellabird


Black-faced Grosbeak


Blue Dacnis


Broad-billed Motmot


Buff-rumped Warbler


Chestnut-mandibled Toucan


Crested Guans


Fasciated Antshrike


Golden-hooded Tanager


Gray-capped Flycatcher


Gray-necked Wood-Rail


Green Honeycreeper


Laughing Falcon


Rufous Mourner


Short-billed Pigeon


Streak-headed Woodcreeper

Other Taxa


Brain-sucking Fly


Breadfruit



male with black dorsal stripe
Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth



Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth


Bullet Ant


Orchid in the Canopy


Caterpillar



Collared Peccaries


Flower




Poison-dart Frogs



Green Iguanas


Monkey Brush


Mystery Butterfly


Narrow-banded Dartwhite


Slime Mold?


Roots of the Walking Palm

People, Places, and Things


Bill and Gustavo


Birding at La Selva Biological Station


Editorial Comment


Learning about La Selva Biological Station




The Suspension Bridge at La Selva


Sign and Waterfall at the Rainforest Aerial Tram


Kid Art for the Rainforest


Of course I washed my hands....


Jammed into a Coaster Bus


Boarding the Tram






Rainforest Aerial Tram


Group photo including Gustavo

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