Morelet’s Seedeater

Date: December 2017

Location: Cahuita, Costa Rica

Camera Settings: ISO 100 – F/10 – 1/125

This little bird was flying low over fields of overgrown crops in Cahuita. I knew from its beak that it was a seedeater of some kind but originally confused it with a type of tanager. Black and yellow colours are so common in Central America that it’s hard to distinguish species sometimes unless you get a look at the bird perched in side profile – just like this.