10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2021

Its range extends as far as Nicaragua in Central America, where it is joined, in Costa Rica and Panama, by The Slaty Flowerpiercer. The Cinnamon-rumped Flowerpiercer is the only flower-piercing game in town if you live in North America. And yes, Mexico is part of North America, not Central or South America.) One is even Greater.

Costa Rica 259

Costa Rica South America North America Venezuela 259

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Actively birding in Costa Rica as well as Nicaragua and Panama as well as the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Organization committee for the Arenal Annual Bird Count. Volunteer reviewer for eBird in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica 259

Costa Rica Experience Experiments Nicaragua 259

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

I’m sure quite a number just keep on going through the tropical night sky, find their way to woods in Nicaragua or further north but a good number do indeed stop in Costa Rica, go birding there now and you will see them. The same goes for Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and other places along their migration routes.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Nicaragua Ohio Honduras 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

1601-1800 sp : Colombia, Brazil, Peru (Looking for smaller areas of these huge countries? 9 Nicaragua (6.8 % – 781 sp. / . – now the pace quickens: USA; Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia; Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India.

Equatorial Guinea 208

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 208

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2015

The montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama are home to at least 50 species of birds that live nowhere else except for one or two that also occur in northwestern Colombia. Quetzal also lives in cloud forests in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. At least that’s the case for Costa Rica.

Costa Rica 150

Costa Rica Panama Nicaragua Honduras 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

In addition to Spanish, several other languages continue to be spoken, the pines and cypress trees of the Guatemalan highlands only occur as introduced species once you travel south of Nicaragua, and dozens of bird species that occur in Costa Rica and Panama don’t even make it to Nicaragua.

Costa Rica 121

Costa Rica Guatemala Birds Nicaragua 121

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Found in Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua, this tiny hummingbird is placed within its own genus microchera. These high-flyers from the montane grasslands of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia should not be missed on a trip to these countries. Coming in at no. 19 is the celestial Red-tailed Comet.

Colombia 279

Colombia Ecuador Bolivia Peru 279