TRIP TO COSTA RICA: RUFUS-COLLARED SPARROW, PARQUE FRANCISCO ALVARADO, ZARCERO, COSTA RICA

     Thanks to our tour guide and avid birder, Eric, for identifying this bird and the others on the Avenal Volcano leg of our trip to Costa Rica.  This is a distinctive bird with a black-and-gray head.  

   The Rufus-Collared Sparrow is a new species to our Life List, which now stands at 158.