The harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is a small colorful sea duck. Its name comes from "histrio", in Latin and means actor. They have small bill, short neck, and long tail. Males in breeding plumage are unmistakable with their dark blue color, rufous sides and crown, and striking white patterning on the face, neck, sides, and back. Harlequin Ducks prefer turbulent water, both in their breeding habitat, which is along fast-moving mountain streams, and in their wintering habitat, which is along rocky coastlines.
Toucans are members of the family Ramphastidae of near passerine birds from the Neotropics. This family is most closely related to the American barbets and are brightly marked and have large often-colorful bills. This picture shows keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), also known as sulfur-breasted toucan or rainbow-billed toucan, is a colorful Latin American member of the toucan family and the national bird of Belize. This photo taken in the wild near Arenal in Costa Rica.
The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is a large, red, yellow and blue South American parrot, a member of a large group of Neotropical parrots called macaws. It is native to humid evergreen forests of tropical South America. Range extends from extreme south-eastern Mexico to Amazonian Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil in lowlands up to 500 m (1,640 ft) (at least formerly) up to 1,000 m (3,281 ft). It has suffered from local extinction through habitat destruction and capture for the parrot trade, but locally it remains fairly common. It is the national bird of Honduras. This particular bird eating a wild almond was photographed in the small Cerro Osa, Piro area at the Osa peninsula, located in southwestern Costa Rica, in the Puntarenas Province, with the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Golfo Dulce to the east. The main town on the peninsula is Puerto Jimenez and the coastal villages of Cabo Matapalo and Carate.
