Pallas's Long-Tongued Bat - you can see how it got it's name!

So my time at Laguna came to an end, although I could have quite easily spent months there. The next area on my travels would take me up into the central highlands, to the Caribbean cloud forest, in an area known as the Bosque de Paz Biological Reserve.

En-route, we stopped at a local farm where the owner has planted favoured nesting trees for Scarlet Macaws and Great-Green Macaws. The farmer also feeds them to attract them in. It was a welcome sight - not only for how amazing they look but the fact that they're endangered. Shockingly, before 2005 there were more pet Macaws in New York City that in the wild in Central America. Since then, thanks to efforts like this, the two species have started to make a comeback expanding into healthy flocks in Boca Tapada and on the Pacific Coast in the country.

There were fantastic photo opportunities of both perched and in-flight images here...