I Basic Bird Banding Course -CR2022
From October 28th to November 3rd, 2022, we held our 1st Basic Course on Bird Banding in Costa Rica, taught jointly by Proyecto Cerúlea...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
Ceruleans with Motus transmitters in Costa Rica!
One of the objectives of the recent workshop held at Las Brisas Nature Reserve was the deployment of Motus compatible transmitters on...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
I Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Migratory Bird Research- Costa Rica
From the 27th of August to the 05th of September 2021, in conjunction with SELVA, we organized the first workshop on Advanced Techniques...
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Paz A. Irola
- Jan 25, 2021
- 5 min
¿Qué comen los martines pescadores? | What do kingfishers eat?
La existencia de un buen número de lagunas distribuidas en toda el área favorece la presencia de aves acuáticas aquí en Reserva Las...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Oct 19, 2020
- 3 min
Followers in the nets
Army ants are nomadic, constantly moving in search of arthropods which they catch to feed the larvae in their colony. When this happens,...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
The tanager with the unknown sex
White-shouldered Tanagers show sexual dimorphism: males and females have a different plumage. Females are mostly greenish with a bit of a...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Oct 13, 2020
- 2 min
A traveler with an unknown departure
When catching birds for banding sometimes we recapture individuals which we had banded previously and when this happens we can recognize...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Sep 12, 2020
- 2 min
Cerulean blast!
The past three days have brought an explosion of Cerulean Warblers to Las Brisas. Flocks of more than ten individuals, mostly adults,...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Sep 8, 2020
- 1 min
They finally arrived!
Bird migration this year from North America has been behind schedule due to the intense hurricane activity in the Caribbean. Debido a la...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
Adorned net
Today was a very hot and steamy day with very little activity in the nets, however every day is different and there is always something...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Aug 30, 2020
- 2 min
A clear night with the potoos
Did you see the moon tonight? What a beauty, right? Because of weather we have not seen it for several days now. We came up to the...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Aug 26, 2020
- 1 min
An experienced dancer
One of the aspects about a bird's life we can learn through banding is longevity. Uno de los aspectos de la vida de las aves que podemos...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Aug 25, 2020
- 1 min
Tainted by the sun
How would you tell if that silhouette is a wood-pewee? Usually you can tell by its slender shape, tufted head and the way it forages:...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Aug 23, 2020
- 2 min
"The scourge of the woods"
Attila is the genus of a group of tyrant flycatchers characterized by having hooked bills and behaving loud and aggressively despite...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Aug 22, 2020
- 1 min
Time-lapse: Western Wood-Pewee
Western Wood-Pewee has been so far the most common Neotropical migrant at Las Brisas. This individual was feeding from a perch...
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Proyecto Cerúlea
- Aug 20, 2020
- 1 min
Migration is here! | ¡La migración empezó!
Migration has begun and among the earliest species arriving to Costa Rica are Eastern and Western Wood-Pewee, Olive-sided Flycatcher,...
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