Field Observations

For your convenience, during the entire process references were made for each species and to their corresponding pages in two of the most widely used Costa Rican bird guides.

1. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica (F. Gary Stiles and Alexander F. Skutch with Illustrations by Dana Gardner. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, New York, 1989. ISBN 0-8014-2287-6 [alk. paper] ISBN 0-8014-9600-4 [pbk. : alk. paper]). Identi fied as S&S in the first column below.

2. The Birds of Costa Rica (Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean. Zona Tropical Publication, San José, Costa Rica, from Comstock Publishing Associates, New York, 2007.ISBN-10: 0-9705678-5-5 and ISBN 13-: 978-0-9705678-5-7) Identified as RG in the second column below.

GUIDE		THRAUPIDAE
S&S	RG	Scientific Name	Common Name	* * *	·	Img
45-17	283	Eucometis penicillata	Gray-headed Tanager	C	R
46-18	281	Tachyphonus luctuosus	White-shouldered Tanager	C	R
46-16	281	Tachyphonus rufus	White-lined Tanager	C	R
47-10	277	Habia rubica	Red-crowned Ant-Tanager	A	R
47-5	285	Piranga rubra	Summer Tanager	A	M
47-8	287	Piranga olivacea	Scarlet Tanager	U	M
47-9	287	Piranga bidentata	Flame-colored Tanager	C	R
47-4	287	Ramphocelus costaricensis	Cherries´s Tanager	A	R
46-15	291	Thraupis episcopus	Blue-gray Tanager	A	R
45-19	291	Thraupis palmarum	Palm Tanager	A	R
45-1	327	Euphonia luteicapilla	Yellow-crowned Euphonia	A	R
45-9	325	Euphonia elegantissima	Elegant Euphonia	A	R
45-2	327	Euphonia imitans	Spot-crowned Euphonia	A	R
46-6	291	Tangara icterocephala	Silver-throated Tanager	A	R
46-8	289	Tangara guttata	Speckled Tanager	A	R
46-9	289	Tangara girola	Bay-headed Tanager	A	R
46-13	289	Tangara larvata	Golden-hooded Tanager	A	R
46-4	291	Dacnis venusta	Scarlet-thighed Dacnis	A	R
46-3	291	Dacnis cayana	Blue Dacnis	A	R
46-7	293	Chlorophanes spiza	Green Honeycreeper	A	R
46-1	293	Cyanerpes lucidus	Shining Honeycreeper	A	R
46-2	293	Cyanerpes cyaneus	Red-legged Honeycreeper	A	R

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