Our favorites were the toucans that gathered for about half an hour every morning at sunrise atop a mango tree on the slope above our house. They're lively, social birds, hopping about on the branches playing what appeared to be hide and seek with each other. They chattered and squawked, and when they flew away, they flew in a string -- one behind the other -- rather than the V-shape that ducks and geese form, or the chaotic flocking of parrots.
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| A pair of aricari -- related to toucans but even more colorful -- snack on fruit laid out by hotel staff. |
| The mot mot bird likes to switch its long tail back and forth like a pendulum |
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