🇨🇷 Animals of Costa Rica

The black vulture is a glossy black scavenger of the Americas, with a bare grey head and white patches at the wingtips.

The blue-footed booby is a seabird of the eastern Pacific that dives on schools of small fish.

The cougar is a large solitary cat that ranges from the Yukon to the tip of South America.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world.

The kinkajou is a small nocturnal relative of the raccoon that lives in the canopy of tropical forests from Mexico to Brazil.

Leafcutter ants carry pieces of leaf back to the nest, but they do not eat them.

The Muscovy duck is a large tree-perching duck of tropical America, black with white wing patches and a bare red face.

The ocelot is a medium-sized spotted cat of the Americas, from Texas to northern Argentina.

The raccoon is a masked, ring-tailed omnivore native to North America.

The red-eyed tree frog sleeps by day under a leaf with its colours hidden.

The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only hummingbird that breeds in eastern North America.

The scarlet macaw is a large, loud parrot of the American tropics.

The turkey vulture is the most widespread vulture in the Americas, and it finds its food by smell.

The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.