Volcano Junco

• It is one of the few birds occupying the páramo of the Costa Rican summits, an environment that exists only above 3,000 metres and that in Central America is limited to a handful of massifs.
• It is extraordinarily trusting with people: it comes up to the mountain huts and to walkers on Chirripó looking for scraps, behaviour typical of birds that evolved without land predators.
• Its bright yellow eyes against dull plumage make it unmistakable: no other bird on those summits has them.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Páramo, high-altitude scrub and cloud forest clearings of Costa Rica and Panama, above 2,100 m

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

13 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Junco vulcani

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.