mountain landscape

Tropical Ecology

Biodiversity

A gallery of wildlife photography from our program in Costa Rica, includes amphibians & reptiles, birds, and insects.

Amphibians & Reptiles

frog on ground
Rufous-eyed brook frog (Duellmanohyla rufioculis)
Red-eyed tree frog
yellow frog in mud
frog on leaf
frog on leaf
frog on leaf
yellow and black frog resting
green frog with black spots
Emerald glass frog
(Centrolenidae prosoblepon)
miniature frog
Dink frog
Clown frog
Clown frog
toad on leaf
Gulf coast toad
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
toad with large salivary gland
Cane Toad (Rhinella marina)
Tiger frog
[Photo: Jerry Jordan]
red frog with blue legs on leaf
Strawberry poison-dart frog
snake with crisscross pattern
Fer-de-lance
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
orange snake
Eyelash pit viper
green lizard in tree
Green tree anole
(Norops biporcatus)
green lizard
Basilisk
[Photo:Amanda Glatter]
two striped skinks in container
Galliwasp skinks

Birds

See our full bird list here.

black bird red eye blue near beak
Black Guan
(Chamaepetes unicolor)
black bird with red throat
Red Crested Guan
[Photo: Madison Tank]
white birds perched in mangrove
White ibises
red birds in flight
Macaws
toucan in forest
Yellow-throated toucan
[Photo: Jenna Lea]
bird held
Northern-Emerald Toucanet [Photo: Grant Foster]
bird with large bill
Pelican
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
red and black bird perched
Passerini’s Tanager
[Photo: Maddie Tank]
red bird perched on branch
turquoise bird with long feathers
Resplendent Quetzal
bird on sign
White throated magpie jay
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
blue bird
Motmot
[Photo: Madison Tank]

Insects

Wolf spider
butterfly with trasparent wings
Glasswing butterfly
yellow-speckled spider in web
Golden orb weaving spider
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
iridescent green beetle on leaf
UGACR Medicinal Garden
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
black, red, white butterfly
Heliconius sp. butterfly
large green insect on leaf
Katydid
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
millipede on top of millipede
Millipedes
[Photo by Amanda Glatter]
spider with long legs
Ogre-faced Spider
(Deinopis sp.)
image of cicada molting
Cicada
mantis on tree
Praying Mantis
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
yellow moth with a horizonal brown line
Lonomia electra
[Photo: Amanda Glatter]
wasp on ground
Tarantula Hawk
[Photo: Amanda Glatter & Harrison Arnold]