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Photo highlights from Costa Rica


Below you will find a collection of photos from Costa Rica. Pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 2008. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.









Lizard seen from the underside of a leaf



Green insect with polka dots



Banana flowers and red banana fruit



Red frog



Mottled forest frog



Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen



Red heliconia



Lily



Yellow and black swallowtail butterfly



Orange and yellow heliconia



Blue morpho with its wings closed



Orange, black, and yellow butterfly



Orange, black, and yellow butterfly



Green-and-black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus)



Brown leaf litter snake



Frog



Giant brown beetle with off-white markings



Brown snake with dark brown markings



Red orb spider feeding



Baby sea turtle on a Costa Rican beach



Red-Eyed Tree Frog



American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) with its mouth open



Sunset in Dominical



Transparent moth



Bee approaching a bird-of-paradise flower



Red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis) feeding on a flower in Costa Rica



Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)



Orange, yellow, and black butterfly



Short-tailed Nighthawk (Lurocalis semitorquatus)



White-faced capuchin



Lizard, Costa Rica



Fiery Billed Aracari, Costa Rica



Male Iguana, Costa Rica



Scarlet Macaws, Costa Rica



Squirrel Monkey, Costa Rica



Green insect with polka dots



Leaf in the rainforest of Costa Rica



Strangler fig



Black butterfly with a white fringe, an orange patch, and turquoise spots



Costa Rican rainforest in the late afternoon



Flowering bromeliad



Black honeybee



Red orange flowers



Yellow heliconia



Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza, being assessed by researchers



Red and yellow heliconia



Orange, yellow, and white flower



White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus)



White-faced Capuchin



Yellow, black, and white butterfly



Red and green arrow poison frog (Dendrobates granuliferus)



Walking stick insect



Brown katydid



Sleeping blue morpho butterfly



Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea



Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea



Red-Eyed Tree Frog



Spiny black, white, and orange caterpillar



Manuel Antonio National Park



Colorful grasshopper



Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)



Anole on a red plant stem



Pasture, regenerating forest, and forest in Las Cruces



Bromeliad



Ochre-headed Flycatcher, Myiagra cervinicauda



Little Hermit (Phaethornis longuemareus)



Black wing-tipped dragonfly



Black, red, and yellow butterfly



Praying mantis



Spiny caterpillar



Looking up the trunk of a giant Ceiba tree



Sea turtle hatchlings



Sea turtle hatchlings



Beach at Manuel Antonio National Park



Blue Morpho Butterfly in Costa Rica



Green Poison Dart Frog, Costa Rica



Glass Frog, Costa Rica



Male Anole, Costa Rica





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