Keel-Billed Toucan

From my flight into the capital, San Jose, the journey to Laguna del Largarto took us over the central mountain range and up to the hot, humid rainforest near the Nicaraguan border. The last hour/hour and a half was on a bumpy dirt track travelling deep into the rainforest.

On arrival it was almost as if the birds were waiting for us as, no sooner had we settled into the lodge and were about to have lunch, Collared Aracaris and Brown-Hooded Parrots were visiting the nearby feeders...