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Love photography! All photos my own. No AI. Scrapper, more than technophile. US based global generalist & street photographer. People, animals, culture, travel and other stuff. Happy to learn from others and to share. Queen of all typos.
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Hi I'm Laura, a US-based traveler and photographer. This is me at home, gathering greens for my animals (pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and peafowl. A graphic designer by trade, I've been traveling since the early 80s and post images from all over the world and throughout the decades.
Wild Baird's Tapir
Tapirus bairdii

Tapirs are shy, mostly nocturnal, and spend their time in dense forests looking for fruit and leaves. Because they're so quiet and reclusive, seeing one in the wild is rare, even for locals. #tapir #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #bairdstapir #lucky
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Brown-throated sloth (also 3 toes)
(Bradypus variegatus)

National symbol of Costa Rica, known for its slow movement, diet of leaves, and ability to turn its head up to 270 degrees. These sloths are common in the country's lowland rainforests. #sloth #wildlifephotography #photography #threetoed
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Wild Gartered Trogan in the Rain
Sarapiqui, Costa Rica

Trogans and Quetzels are in the same family. In the lowlands where we are you only see trogans. Not a great shot of a great bird #birds #photography #wildlife #garteredtrogan #costarica #trogan
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Costa Rican Mottled Owl
Strix virgata

This little owl is about a foot tall. Crepuscular, to nocturnal hunter with large dark eyes. Notable consumer of small rodents. We love this owl. #bird #wildlife #photography #owl #mottledowl #strixvirgata #wildlifephotography
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Wild Howler Mom and Baby
in Beach Almond Tree
Sarapiqui, Costa Rica

Suddenly, many of the wild female howler monkeys have babies on board. And one of the babies about this size hangs out a lot with the troop leader, who is male.
#howler #monkey #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #babies
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Baby 2-Toed
Mid December I hope to head back to HQ to work with little ones like these, hopefully getting them ready for a successful life in the wild. Rescue is tough, I have a huge amount of respect for the people who make it a career, it's a real labor of love. #photography #sloths #costarica
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Wild Plumed Basilisk
(aka Jesus Christ Lizard)
Basiliscus plumifrons

Love these guys, I don't see them too often here, and when I do they're mostly scurrying out of sight. Got lucky for a minute today. #plumedbasalisk #jesuschristlizard #reptiles #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Amazon Parrot 'Helping'
Costa Rica doesn't allow wildlife as pets, so every rescue has a cage of confiscated Amazon parrots that wolf whistle, speak + shriek a LOT! I like them though they're a handful. Many bite, they'll poop on you, escape but they sure are pretty #birds #amazons #rescue #wildlife
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Bat Falcon
(Falco rufigularis)

Named for its ability to catch bats at dawn and dusk, using it's long pointed wings for speed. Bat Falcons have a dark 'hood' which helps to shade its eyes from glare, similar to baseball players using black markings under their eyes. #birds #wildlife #photography
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Wild Sleeping 2-toed Sloth in a Beach Almond Tree
Sarapiqui, Costa Rica
#sloth #wildlifephotography #photography #sleeping #costarica #wildlife #travel
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Banded Sphinx Moth
(Eumorpha fasciatus)

These moths are nocturnal pollinators, their caterpillars primarily feed on plants in the genus Ludwigia - which are acquatic/semi-acquatic plants. We are right along a river so that tracks. #insects #moth #sphinxmoth #photography #wildlife #bandedsphinxmoth
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Great Green Macaw eating fruit
Sarapiqui, Costa Rica

One of the local macaws like this fruit. I'm not sure what it is? Not fleshy like an orange, the outside is hard, they eat the interior and leave the outer skin/shell/husk?
#birds #photography #macaw #greatgreenmacaw #costarica #fruit #wildlife
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Grison
Galictis vittata

An animal I was not familiar with. They had a pair at the last rescue I volunteered for, but they were almost never visible. In the weasel family, like a smaller, skinnier South American honey badger. This one is a baby. #photography #grison #wildlifephotography #costarica
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Blue Jeans Poison Dart Frog
(Oophaga pumilio)

Males find a suitable breeding site, female lays eggs, which male keeps hydrated. When eggs hatch, female transports them on her back to a safe wet spot and feeds them infertile eggs. #photography #bluejeanspoisondartfrog #wildlifephotography #reptiles
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Stunning shot.
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Rothschildia orizaba
Large moth with translucent wing "windows"(triangle areas). "Windows" have hair-like scales/no scales allowing light to pass thru, instead of being reflected/absorbed + a waxy anti-reflective coating, reducing glare, aiding in camouflage. #moth #photography #costarica #wildlife
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Spectacled Owl

Looks like he's wearing Groucho Marx eyebrow and glasses. Roosts hidden in shady spots. Favors open canopy, forest edges. Song is a series of deep hoots, sounding like a sheet of metal being flexed quickly. #owl #costarica #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Chestnut Mandibled Toucan eating the fruit of the pejibaye palm — a natural food source for toucans. They show up to feed when the berries are suitably red. Also guans, araçari, are big consumers, and the peccaries like the fruit when it drops to the ground #photography #birds #pejibaye #costarica
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Praying Mantis
Heredia, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica

Google lens isn't helpful, saying this mantis is from Singapore, but I took the photo this afternoon in Costa Rica? Could it be a Carolina Mantis? Pretty thing. #photography #insects #prayingmantis #costarica #wildlifephotography
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Neotropical Anole
(Anolis biporcatus)
Diurnal and arboreal, seldom descending from the canopy. They perch on trees. Females lay a single egg on a moss-covered branch. Ambush predators they consume smaler arthropods including beetles, ants and spiders #reptile #anole #photography #wildlife #costarica
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Golden Mantled Howler Monkeys at Tirimbina Nature Reserve in Costa Rica for #Twosday
#monkeys #momandbaby #howlermonkeys #tirimbina #costarica #photography #wildlife #bridgestanchion #wildlifephotography #highkey
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Wild Great Green Macaw
(Ara Ambiguus)

Costa Rica's largest macaws are critically endangered due to habitat loss/trapping. With a lifespan up to 60 years, + a diet that includes beach almond nuts. #macaw #greatgreenmacaw #caribbean #costarica #arasambiguus #wildlife #wildlifephotography #beautiful
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Wild Red-Crowned Amazon in Ardisia
(Amazona viridigenalis)

From All About Birds: These large, leaf-green parrots fly with shallow, fluttery wingbeats and then abruptly disappear when they land in treetops. #parrots #birds #wildlifephotography #photography #greencheekamazon #mascotofbrownsvilleTX
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Great Kiskadee
Pitangus sulphuratus has a black mask that works like the eye-black that athletes smear beneath their eyes—an adaptation to reduce glare and assist them in hunting in bright light or where light reflects off water. #kisskadee #costarica #photography #birds #wildlifephotography
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
White-faced Capuchin
Finger Lickin' Good

Capuchins scrape their teeth across the green coconuts breaking into them, then they lean in to drink the water, and scoop out the meat, licking their fingers along the way. #capuchins #coconuts #photography #wildlifephotography #fingerlicking #monkeys
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM