Around 11:00 AM the rain started to break, so we loaded ourselves back into the truck and drove off to the actual start of Pipeline Road. We continued to tick off new birds for the next five hours or so, mostly one at a time including:
Great Tinamou (heard the day before, but this was the first time I ever saw one. They hide in the deep forest, and don’t come out to the road. But we found one while searching out some Night Monkeys.)
Yellow-rumped Cacique
Black-throated Trogon
Royal Flycatcher
Bay Wren
And of course we also saw lots more birds we’d previously seen in the morning or yesterday:
Great Tinamou
Great Potoo
Double-toothed Kite
Broad-winged Hawk
Squirrel Cuckoo
Violet-crowned Woodnymph
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Black-throated Trogon
White-necked Puffbird
White-whiskered Puffbird
Black-breasted Puffbird
Black-mandibled Toucan (Chestnut-mandibled)
Keel-billed Toucan
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Western Slaty-Antshrike
White-flanked Antwren
Dot-winged Antwren
Dusky Antbird
Spotted Antbird
Streak-chested Antpitta
Royal Flycatcher
Rufous Mourner
Blue-crowned Manakin
Red-capped Manakin
Bay Wren
Blue-black Grosbeak
Yellow-rumped Cacique
But we weren’t quite done yet. On the ride back to the tower we spotted a Collared Ararcari (a kind of Toucan) from the truck, #650!
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