[:en]Bird Azure-hooded Jay[:es]Ave Urraca de Toca Celeste[:]
22 Jul

Azure-hooded Jay

The Azure-Hooded Jay (Cyanolyca cucullata) inhabits from the East part of Mexico to West Panama. It lives along edges in wet mountain forest. Its measures are 29 cm (12 inches) and 88g in weight.

This medium-sized bird is dark blue with contrasting sky-blue hood. Adults have forehead, sides of head and neck, throat, breast, and upper back black. Rest of the body, wings and tail dark blue. The fore-crown silvery-white, bill and legs black. They live in pairs or in groups. Eats beetles, katydids, homopterans, larvae, spiders, small vertebrates and berries.

[:en]Bird White-throated Magpie-Jay[:es]Ave Urraca Copetona, Piapia Azúl[:]
20 Jun

White-throated Magpie-Jay

The White-Throated Magpie-Jay (Caloccita formosa) lives from Central Mexico to Costa Rica. This bird resides in thorny scrub, savanna trees and gallery forests. Adults are cm (18 inches) in height and 205 g in weight.

This large blue-and- white jay has a long tail. Its back, rump, and upper tail-coverts grayish-blue. Face and underparts white, bill and legs black. This bird eats insects like katydids, caterpillars, roaches and beetle grubs. They also feeds on small frogs, lizards, and fruits.

[:en]Bird Brown Jay[:es]Ave Urraca Parda, Piapia[:]
22 Jul

Brown Jay

The Brown Jay (Psilorhinus morio) ranges from South Texas to West Panama. This large bird inhabits in open woodland, banana and coffee plantations and forest edge. Matures are 39 cm (15 inches) in height and 235 g in weight.

They have the head, chest, and entire upperparts dark brown. The lower breast is grayish-brown, bill black and dusky legs. This bird has a graduated white-tipped tail. They eat insects, spiders, small lizards and frogs, fruits like Cecropia spike and maize and drinking nectar of banana.

[:en]Bird Yellow-throated Vireo[:es]Ave Vireo Pechiamarillo[:]
22 Jul

Yellow-throated Vireo

The Yellow-throated Vireo, Vireo flavifrons, is a small American songbird.

Adults are mainly olive on the head and upperparts with a yellow throat and white belly; they have dark eyes with yellow "spectacles". The tail and wings are dark with white wing bars. They have thick blue-grey legs and a stout bill.

Their breeding habitat is open deciduous woods in southern Canada and the eastern United States.

These birds migrate to the deep southern United States, Mexico and Central America. They are very rare vagrants to western Europe. There is one record from Britain in Kenidjack Valley Cornwall September 20th-27th 1990. There is also a sight report from Germany[citation needed].

They forage for insects high in trees. They also eat berries, especially before migration and in winter when they are occasionally seen feeding on Gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba) fruit. They make a thick cup nest attached to a fork in a tree branch.

[:en]Bird Yellow-winged Vireo[:es]Ave Vireo Aliamarillo[:]
22 Jul

Yellow-winged Vireo

The Yellow-winged Vireo, Vireo carmioli, is a small passerine bird. It is endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama.

This vireo occurs from 2000 m to the timberline in the canopy of mountain forest, sometimes feeding in undergrowth or tall second growth. The small cup nest is built in the fork of a small branch 3–20 m high in a tree or scrub and the clutch is two dark-spotted white eggs. Both sexes construct the nest, incubate the eggs and feed the young.

The adult Yellow-winged Vireo is 11.5 cm in length and weighs 13 g. It has olive-green upperparts and blackish wings with two yellow wing bars. There is a yellowish supercilium which joins the interrupted white eye ring. The throat is white, and the underparts are otherwise pale yellow with some olive on the flanks. Young birds are browner above and have very pale yellow underparts.

Yellow-winged Vireos feed on spiders and insects gleaned from tree foliage, and also eat small fruits. They will join mixed-species feeding flocks, or accompany Flame-throated Warblers.

The Brown-capped Vireo has a nasal nit call and the song is a high slurred viree chichu chuyee; viree viree cheeyu; viree witchum vireee.