Costa Rica

Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve

La Fortuna

The Arenal Volcano

The La Fortuna Waterfall

The river Tárcoles

Two crocodiles on the shore of the river

Manuel Antonio National Park

A Halloween crab in the mangrove swamp of the park

Colombian white-faced capuchin on the beach

Flora

Drymonia Rubra (orchid)

American bamboo

Oncidium Ornithorhynchum (orchid)

Red banana

Caryota urens

A Guanacaste tree, since 1959 national tree of Costa Rica

Prosthechea fragrans (orchid)

Red ginger

Calathea crotalifera

Masdevallia tubuliflora (orchid)

Heleconia

Seeds of the neanthe bella palm

Tabebuia nodosa

A tree fern

Bougainvillea

Coffea

Chrysothemis pulchella

Cirtantera Amarilla

Episcia

Etlingera elatior, ginger flower

Fauna

variegated squirrel climbing a palm tree

A masked tree frog

A millipede

A crocodile

Hummingbirds

A little blue heron

Two macaws

A green iguana on the shore

Phasmatodea, which camouflages like moss

A domestic muscovy duck

A red eyed tree frog, asleep and hiding its colours

A yellow-throated toucan

A nasua

A green spiny lizard (sceloporus malachiticus)

A strawberry poison-dart frog

An American white ibis

A northern tamandua looking for food

A black iguana

A roseate spoonbill (platalea ajaja)

A cormorant

A red spoonbill and a great egret on the shore of the river

A peregrine falcon in flight over the river Tárcoles

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