Much of today was spent walking through the forest of Corcovado National Park, on the Osa peninsula. We took a 25 minute boat ride from the Inn, stopping to see a nesting colony of Brown Booby along the way. We also learned that Magnificent Frigatebirds do not have water repelling feathers, so they steal food from other birds rather than diving to catch their own.
The land of the National Park was largely deforested for cattle, banana and oil palm plantations until the 1970s. Thanks to the tropical climate the forest has largely regrown since then, which is wonderful for the ecology but makes it harder to see the birds you can hear. We were pleased to see Red-capped Manikins and Scarlet Macaws as well as a female Great Curassow. We spotted our first agouti, and saw some coatis (one female coati was very pregnant). We again saw spider and howler monkeys but the white-faced capuchin monkeys are proving elusive.
After a late lunch back at the Inn, we went birding until dinner time, which allowed us to see several toucans, scarlet macaws, parrots, warblers and other colorful birds.
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