Costa Rica Wildlife Field Guides
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If you are
interested in learning more about Costa Rica's diverse wildlife,
we highly recommend purchasing a field guide for your holiday.
Having a field guide during your travels will help you easily
identify even cryptic species and provide you with insights into
their natural history.
I highly
recommend these resources as they will be a valuable source of
information during your travels.
We currently
have
three field
guides for sale which focus on the animals of Costa Rica. These
books are published through Zona Tropical/Cornell University
Press, the gold standard for Costa Rica field guides, and they
all contain a wealth of knowledge.
We are selling each book for $30. If you
would like to purchase two titles we can offer you a rate price
of $50 for both books. If you would like to purchase all three
books we can offer you a rate price $70. Let us know if you
would like any of the books so that we can set aside your copies
and bring them to you the night of the tour.
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Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa
Rica
I am so happy to offer you my new book
Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica, which I
coauthored with Fiona Reid. Pocket Guide to the Mammals of
Costa Rica is the first guide to provide comprehensive
coverage of every currently known terrestrial and aquatic mammal
species found in Costa Rica.
The guide features:
• 60 plates with full-color illustrations
of every known mammal species and over 100 color photographs
• An illustrated introduction covering
the history of mammalogy in Costa Rica, how to find mammals, and
more
• Up-to-date species accounts, range
maps, and natural history vignettes
We are offering my new book Pocket Guide to the Mammals of
Costa Rica for a rate of $30 per copy.
Please let me know if you would like a dedicated copy of
the "Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica" and I would be
more than happy to do that for you.
You can follow this link for more
information on this book.
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Sample pages from
Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica!
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| Pocket Guide to the
Insects of Costa Rica |
We also have Pocket Guide to the Insects of Costa Rica
by Paul Hanson, Kenji Nishida and Ángel Solís available for
$30 per copy. Tracie Stice
was selected to write the foreword for this informative
book.
Pocket Guide to the Insects of Costa
Rica highlights a collection of insects which travelers
are likely to encounter while travelling in Costa Rica.
It features stunning photographs, distribution maps and
insightful information about the insects included in the
book.
You can follow this link for more
information on Pocket
Guide to the Insects of Costa Rica.
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| Pocket Guide to the
Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica |
For those herpetology enthusiasts out there, we also have
the brand-new publication Pocket Guide to the Amphibians and
Reptiles of Costa Rica by Twan Leenders available for $30
per copy. This compact book covers every amphibian and reptile
species in the country.
The guide features:
• 136 color plates with more than 700
photographs
• 48 black-and-white scientific
illustrations
• Up-to-date species accounts and color
coded range maps
You can follow this link for more
information on Pocket Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles
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Mammals of the Osa Peninsula
An Introduction to the Most
Common Species
Central American Spider Monkey
- Ateles geoffroyi
We self-published the photography based book Mammals of the Osa Peninsula:
An Introduction to the Most Common Species during the 2020 Covid
shutdown. It is a wonderful introduction the mammals of the Osa
Peninsula. The book is available for purchase through Blurb. A link to
their website as well as a preview of the book is included at the bottom
of the page.
The Osa Peninsula is widely considered one of the most bio-diverse
places on the planet. It is home to half of Costa Rica's plant and
animal species and Costa Rica harbors approximately 5% of the world's
bio-diversity.
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Thomas' Fruit-eating Bats - Dermanura watsoni |
Delve into this fascinating world and discover some of the Osa
Peninsula's most iconic mammal species.
Mammals of the Osa Peninsula offers readers a glipse into the often
secretive lives of some of the most iconic mammals of the region. They
are brought to life by over 150 photographs and insights into their
fascinating natural histories.
Bairds's tapir - Tapirus bairdii
This
192 page publication includes more than 150 photographs, including 50 spectacular cetacean photos shot by local expert
Sierra Goodman.
Visit Sierra's
website at
www.divinedolphin.com to learn more about her and to join her for a day out on the water. Her dolphin
and whale excursions can not be missed!
You can
preview
the first 40 pages of
Mammals of the Osa Peninsula here:
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