White-throated Magpie-jay
The last time I was in Costa Rica, I managed to see this bird once, and of course it was when I only had my camera phone with me. This time a pair of these birds appeared semi-regularly at the villa near Tamarindo, but they often moved on to presumably greener-pastures (or more likely, greener trees) elsewhere. Today they stuck around long enough for me to get a few decent shots of them. Even so, there’s a shot of one of them in flight, and the pics with the ocean in the background is just before they decided to push on.
The seem to follow roughly the same body plan as the North American blue jay, but a bit bigger, with a longer tail and a fancy top-knot of feathers instead of a crest. Unlike our millifluous Blue Jay, these guys only seem to make a very gutteral squawk.
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Tags: Bird, Costa Rica, Jay, Tamarindo, White-throated magpie-jay
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