NATHAN COLE

An ongoing record of all the species I have encountered while travelling Costa Rica and completing the Mauser EcoHouse artist residency in Esterillos Este. All pictures are my own of species I have found in nature.

I am always looking for new opportunities, so if there are any artist residencies, science or travel organizations, or wildlife groups who would be interested in collaborating or having the wildlife of their regions documented, I would be interested. If you are interested in helping me fund these explorations, feel free to reach out for prints or scratchboard work, or by becoming a patron on Patreon.

Birds

Shorebirds

Spotted Sandpiper

Whimbrel 

Herons, Ibis, and Allies

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron 

Fasciated Tiger-Heron 

Little Blue Heron

Snowy Egret

Tricoloured Heron

White Ibis

Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows

Crested Guan

Pigeons and Doves

Inca Dove

Ruddy Ground-Dove

Vultures, Hawks, and Allies

Black Vulture

Common Black Hawk

Roadside Hawk

Turkey Vulture

Falcons and Caracaras

Laughing Falcon

Northern Crested Caracara

Hummingbirds

Rufous-tailed hummingbird

White-necked Jacobin

Cuckoos

Groove-billed Ani

Smooth-billed Ani

Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies

Scarlet Macaw

Barbets and Toucans

Fiery-billed Aracari

Keel-billed Toucan

Woodpeckers

Red-crowned Woodpecker

Antbirds

Black-hooded Antshrike

Chestnut-backed Antbird

Tyrant Flycatchers: Pewees, Kingbirds, and Allies

Great Kiskadee 

Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

Tropical Kingbird

Thrushes

Clay-coloured Thrush

Wrens

Rufous-naped Wren

Wood-Warblers

Prothonotary Warbler

Tanagers and Allies

Blue-gray Tanager

Palm Tanager

Red-legged Honeycreeper

Blackbirds

Great-tailed Grackle

Mammals

Bradypodidae

Three-toed sloth

New World Monkeys (Cebidae) 

Central American Squirrel Monkey

Panamanian White-faced Capuchin 

New World Monkeys (Atelidae)

Mantled Howler

Small/Medium Sized Rodents (Sciuridae)

Variegated Squirrel

Procyonidae

White-nosed coati

Armadillos (Dasypodidae)

Nine-banded Armadillo

Large South American Rodents (Dasyproctidae)

Central American Agouti

Reptiles

Iguanidae

Green Iguana

Black Ctenosaur or Black Spiny-tailed Iguana

Corytophanidae

Common Basilisk (Jesus Christ Lizard)

Crocodylidae

American Crocodile

Small Turtles (Kinosternidae)

Scorpion Mud Turtle

Geckos (Gekkonidae)

House Gecko

Anoles (Dactyloidae)

Many-scaled Anole

Copper Anole

Autarchoglossan Lizards (Teiidae)

Four-lined Whiptail

Venomous Snakes (Viperidae)

Eyelash Viper

Amphibians

Dendrobatidae

Green and Black Poison Dart Frog

Bufonidae

Cane Toad

 

Butterflies, Moths, and other Invertebrates

Orb-weaver Spiders (Araneidae)

Argiope Submaronica

Golden Orb-weaver

Skimmers or Perchers Dragonfly (Libelludidae)

Blue-eyed Setwing

Great Pondhawk

Tropical Damselflies (Pseudostigmatidae)

Helicopter Damselfly

Polydesmidan Millipedes (Platyrhacidae)

Nyssodesmus Python (Large Forest-Floor Millipede)

Butterflies (Nymphalidae)

Peleides Blue Morpho

Owl Butterfly

Gray Cracker (Hamadryas februa)

Variable Cracker (Hamadryas feronia)

Thoas Swallowtail (Papilio thoas)

Malachite Butterfly (Siproeta stelenes)

White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae)

Banded Peacock (Anartia fatima)

Dirce Beauty (Colobura Dirce)

Pachinus Longwing (Heliconius Pachinus)

Iphiclus Sister (Adelpha Iphiclus)

Julia Butterfly (Dryas iulia)

Grecian Shoemaker (Catonephele numilia)

Cloudless (or Yellow) Sulphur Butterfly (Phoebis sennae)

Long-tailed Tiger Butterly (Heliconius Hecale Zuleika)

Ruby-spotted Swallowtail

Tiger-striped Longwing (Heliconius Ismenius Clarescens)

Two-eyed Eighty-eight (Callicore pitheas)

Skipper Butterflies (Hesperiidae)

Red-headed Firetip (Pyrrhopyge zenodorus)

Cicadas (Cicadidae)

Blue Cicada (of the Genus Zammara)

Ants (Formicidae)

Leafcutter Ants

Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae)

Green Beetle (Macraspis Lucida)

Praying Mantids (Mantidae)

Carolina Mantis

Unknown Stink Bug

Unknown Caterpillar

Scorpion

Paguroidea

Hermit Crab

Halloween or Mouthless Crab

Ghost Crab

Thin-shelled Rock Crab