
This very well adapted birds in to their habitats, are always in search of food in marsches, shallow water areas, and fields.
Water birds include a big number of species around the world such as: Anhingas, Cormorants..wich are birds living also and fresh and brackish water of Tropical and Sub-Tropical regions, there are 4 species and one of them occur in Costa Rica.
Storks, are also water birds that occur world wide in Tropical and Temperate Zones, there are 17 species, but only 3 occur in the New World, 2 of them occur in Costa Rica.
Spoonbills and Ibis,33 species world wide and 3 Ibises and one single spoonbill species occur in Costa Rica.
Most of this birds feeds on water and land small creatures..Cormorants and Anhingas dive under water to pursue fish, they take also small turtles and caimans , the Anhingas use their sharp bills to spear fish.
Storks feed by walking slowly through fields and marshy areas , looking for a possible prey , could be anything that moves: small rodents , young birds ,frogs, reptiles ,mollusks, crustaceans and insects.
Ibises are gregarious birds that stick their long bills into soft mud of marsches and shore regions about for food : insects, snails, crabs, frogs, tadpoles. Etc…this are birds that feed by touching and not by vision, similar strategy used for spoonbills.
Most of this birds breed in colonies of different sizes, Mating is monogamous, wich both male and female contributing to nest building incubation and feeding their young birds.
They reach their mature age between 3 and 4 years, and most of them lays between 3 to 4 eggs on a sticky platform nest.
In Costa Rica there are still a lot of areas where this birds have found a place to breed, feed, and stay , fortunately many areas of farming have been for them also good places to seek out food, in big groups of many species, so we should be be proud that we still have all this nature animal community controllers, in our world, bedside with their elegance forms they are impossible to ingnore.
Jonathan Serrano Hernandez"
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