The Little Ones - Wrens, Warblers, Vireos, Gnatbirds & more

Yes, these are all fairly small birds, although an occasional Wren is larger than I would expect -- most are tiny and therefore belong together!

Wrens - Generally small and sulky the usually feature a curved bill and an expressive tail.

Rufous-backed Wren - A ubiquitous Wren which I saw throughout the trip.

Plainwrens - These species don't have flamboyant plumage and are small but usually quite vocal.

Unfortunately no photos from this page, but we did see the Southern House Wren and the Timberline Wren at the highest point in the Talamanca Mountains.

Warblers - Lots of this family in Costa Rica and many of them are ones I have already seen in Rhode Island. Still enough I haven't seen to keep me interested.

Chestnut-capped Warbler - We saw this beauty at the coast and in the Central Valley -- only caught a photo of one of the seven we saw.

Black-cheeked Warbler - this high altitude Warbler is not an easy subject...

Buff-rumped Warbler - Yes, that is a buffy tail sticking out behind the blurry green. Best I could do...

Yellow Mangrove Warbler - was lucky to even get these photos of the newly "separated" species deep in the Margroves of the Tarcoles River.

Non-Warbler Warblers - another bunch of those species that are really in a family, but have a different name...

Gray-crowned Yellowthroat - A cousin of our Common Yellowthroat.

Vireos, Gnatbirds and more - various smallish birds that usually feed on insects.

White-browed Gnatcatcher - a lovely little black, gray and white bird that was pretty common by the coast.

No Portrait

White-lored Gnatcatcher - another coastal bird that frequented the road to the Cerro Lodge

Mangrove Vireo - Our second stop on a very narrow and potentially muddy road the runs along a mangrove swamp yielded this lovely bird.

Philadelphia Vireo - Not my first Philly Vireo, but definitely my best photos of one!

Yellow-throated Vireo - another photo upgrade for a bird I already have.