10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

Costa Rica is a country situated well south of the Tropic of Cancer and like most places without a winter, parrots are an essential part of the local avifauna. With 18 species of native Psittacids to choose from, birding in Costa Rica is always a thrill, especially for someone who grew up in parrotless Niagara Falls, New York!

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Parrots Costa Rica San Jose Endangered Species 275

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If habitat is protected, they can also act as important pathways to fantastic places and can greatly facilitate connecting people with birds and biodiversity. In terms of birding, they more easily bring us to a vast variety of species, Costa Rica included. Two of the best are Paradise Road and the RECOPE Road.

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Costa Rica San Jose Liberia Birds 260

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Fortunately, nowadays, there are protected areas and efforts to establish biological corridors that provide more hope for the endangered Great Green Macaw, and other species. In Costa Rica, that would mean the Sarapiqui area because this is where we find the closest Caribbean lowland forests to San Jose.

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Costa Rica San Jose Panama Birds 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2016

March is birding madness in Costa Rica. They hold up traffic to stare into a flowering tree, take over hotels, and DEMAND easy access to bird feeders from the hot sunny coast to the high reaches of the misty paramo. Cerro Lodge : Around an hour and a half from the airport, this is the place to stay when birding Carara National Park.

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Costa Rica San Jose Liberia Birds 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2015

It’s the end of June and up north, the birds are busy with their young, and taking full advantage of the summer’s arthropod bounty. So is classic, comfortable birding at Rancho Naturalista , and lowland rainforest birding in the Sarapiqui area. Blue-crowned Motmot – a common bird of hotel gardens.

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Costa Rica San Jose Birds Owls 162