The Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) is known as the pato real in Spanish. That translates to royal duck in English but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how it earned such a moniker. I’m sure ...

The village of Tortuguero is a peninsula located on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. This area is only accessible by boat or plane and there are no cars in the town. In other words, it is a ...

Tortuguero National Park is ranked #8 out of 24 things to do in Costa Rica. See pictures and our review of Tortuguero National Park.

Tortuguero, one of the world’s best places to see nesting sea turtles, is the smallest of towns. On our first morning, we watched a short film narrated by the director of the Sea Turtle Conservancy.

Advice on the best ways to get around Costa Rica. How to get to and from the airport, plus how to use public transportation such as buses and taxis.

Costa played at Oregon from 2006-10, was a GA for the Ducks from 2013-15 and returns to Eugene following a stint as Chip Kelly’s senior offensive analyst at UCLA.

Costa Rica’s goal is to transfer 70 percent of public buses and taxis to clear air alternatives, like electricity, by 2035, and make them entirely emission-free by 2050.

Over 98% of Costa Rica’s energy has come from renewable sources since 2014 (in 2017, the country ran a full 300 days solely on renewable power) and 70% of all public transport is expected to ...

Where I went: I recently took a 10-day "Natural Wonders of Costa Rica" tour. The tour covered the three areas of Costa Rica I wanted to visit: rainforest, volcanos and cloud forest.

I looked up the taxonomy of the black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) before writing this article to make sure they are officially grouped with ducks in the system of classification of ...