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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2023
In terms of birding, they more easily bring us to a vast variety of species, Costa Rica included. There are several birds in Costa Rica that require walks on forest trails and stalks in deep primary forest but a high percentage can also be seen right from the edge of a road, maybe even from your rental car window.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
As some of you know, I almost made it to the Birdwatching Bliss 2021 fam trip to Costa Rica, but got sick a day or two ahead of the trip and had to cancel my participation. Yet, the organisers, Futuropa and ProImagen Costa Rica, kindly kept my ticket valid and this October I revisited Costa Rica.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2023
Another year of birding in Costa Rica has come to an end, another one begins. I bet some tanager flocks will be in the cards; birding in Costa Rica tends to deliver. In Costa Rica, seeing 48 hummingbird species means seeing nearly all of the regular ones. What will the new year bring? 48 Hummingbird Species.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2022
In Costa Rica, we have those living fences, these planted rivulets of green. Red-billed Pigeon are common in much of Costa Rica. In addition to those birds and the Squirrel Cuckoo pictured above, the following are some of the more common hedgerow species of Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2022
The Olive-crowned Yellowthroat is one of Costa Rica’s resident wood-warbler species. In Costa Rica, those would be the wood-warblers that do a lot more wintering in the southern USA and the Caribbean than in southern Central America. They also winter in Costa Rica and I see a few every year but not that many.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2022
The birding in Costa Rica is always golden but some days, you really do strike gold. Last week in Costa Rica, I had the great fortune of finding some of that avian treasure, on this occasion, a Pacific Golden-Plover in the small coastal city of Puntarenas. Might a few occur appear in Costa Rica during migration?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2022
Having lived in Costa Rica for several years, I recall those glorious August days in the 80s and can say that yes, it is rather like August, all year long. Differences exist but August in Niagara is much closer to Costa Rica than a Niagara November. Go birding in Costa Rica in August and you will find shorebirds.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
As far as countries go, Costa Rica is at the smaller end of the spectrum. We might have limited space but we make up for it with a massive amount of biodiversity including well over 900 bird species on the official Costa Rica bird list. I wonder what else is waiting to be found in heavily birded Costa Rica?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2022
Costa Rica has long been one of the more frequently visited global birding hotspots. Stable, easy to visit, and with lots of accessible habitats, its easy to see why many birders have opted to visit Costa Rica on several occasions. Several birds in Costa Rica could be endemic or near endemic species level taxa.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Tonight I’m going to fly to the magical kingdom of Costa Rica, to reset and restart at Rancho Naturalista. This lodge has the longest checklist among the eBird hotspots of Costa Rica – over 55 % of the nation’s total, including about 40 hummingbirds. I’ll fly tonight to the magical kingdom of Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Blue flanks, black chest, yellow head… I am in the birders’ heaven called Rancho Naturalista Lodge in Costa Rica and am observing my first Golden-hooded Tanager of the trip. While I already visited Costa Rica once, I do not feel overly-confident with its birds. Previous stage: Costa Rica on a relaxed birding pace.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2022
In Costa Rica, we have our pewees, 6 species of them. Three live and breed here, two migrate through the country in large numbers (one of those also breeds here in small numbers), and another migrates through and winters in Costa Rica. The WEWP is the other pewee that moves through Costa Rica in numbers.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2021
In Costa Rica, mangrove forests grow on both coasts but are much more common on the Pacific because there are more places where estuaries flow into bays and other shallow, coastal waters. Even better, the government of Costa Rica has stated its commitment to restoring and protecting mangrove forests as part of the Paris agreement.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 24, 2022
December is not the ideal month for bird counts, at least not in Costa Rica. However, in Costa Rica, despite being wonderfully warm in December, the birding isn’t as straightforward as one might expect. If you go birding in Costa Rica, you’ll see a lot around Arenal! Raptors and Swifts.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2022
In mountainous Costa Rica, that can translate to such disasters as flooding, landslides, and road closures. Fortunately, my partner and I had a back-up plan, one that was more relaxed than an all out Big Day and that would also bring us to one of our favorite areas of Costa Rica, the southern Caribbean zone.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2022
Despite what some outdated sources claim, the list of bird species reported for Costa Rica is much more than 860. The same can be said for Costa Rica’s first Red-breasted Merganser , a species first documented for the nation in 2020. Check out the crazy new bird for Costa Rica!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 25, 2021
Other birds stay in Central America and this makes winter birding in Costa Rica replete with a nice selection of wintering species including wood-warblers. Not including the vagrants, these are the warblers that regularly frequent green space in Costa Rica: Wood-warblers of Cooler Montane Habitats. Louisiana Waterthrush.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
In Costa Rica, since the Official Checklist Committee (something I take part in) tends to follow changes made to the official AOS list, we decided to follow suit and include Choco Screech-Owl on the country list. Because it might also occur in southern Costa Rica. So, does Choco Screech-Owl occur in southern Costa Rica?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Since I wanted to buy some genuine tastes of Costa Rica, we continued to C.A.T.I.E. Into the souvenir shop for some local coffee, chocolate and cocoa, then a coffee mug with an image of a Three-toed Sloth and the Field Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica, and off we go. 130 mature individuals, in 2019 (Monge et al.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2022
Once you get to Costa Rica, you’ll already know those birds so well, it will be like meeting distant family members and famous folks for the very first time.Over and over! In brief, you’ll be ready for those birds in Costa Rica, ready to soak them up and have a fantastic trip. Right, say what?!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2022
‘If we know how to conserve the forests, and work with the least impact possible,’ he later remarked, ‘Savegre would maintain both its natural resources and its visitors.’” (Slightly edited for length, from Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica 1970–2000 by Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora).
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2022
In Costa Rica, we enjoy healthy numbers of Whimbrels , a few annual wintering Long-billed Curlews that choose to lord over the flats of the Gulf of Nicoya, and good numbers of an equally impressive prairie bird, the Marbled Godwit. It has become apparent that a chosen few Hudsonian Godwits make occasional stops in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2022
Costa Rica? If you are headed to Costa Rica for birding from now until March, you will probably see more than a few of these small, plainish, Palearctic Warblerish birdies. Typical Tennessee Warbler wintering habitat in Costa Rica. Tennessee Warblers? Pish and a dozen might flit into view.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Indeed, you only live twice: your second life starts when you bird Costa Rica for the first time. And, yee-haw, this would be my second attempt at a second life: three weeks ago I was invited to bird Costa Rica! Still, it’s Costa Rica I am talking about: I’ll be back. Update: true.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2022
Having successfully raced to identify more than 700 species in Costa Rica during the final days of 2021 , I suppose I more or less took January 1st off. What I can say with certainty is that the first species of my new year could have been any number of birds I typically hear and see at my place in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2022
Birding is adventurous indeed but it doesn’t have to be, not even in far off, incredibly birdy Costa Rica. While birding in Costa Rica can be as adventurous as a birder wants, most take a much easier route and why not? Easy birding in Costa Rica is still fun birding in Costa Rica!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Back in March, back when the world realized that a pandemic was happening and that it was spreading with tenacious unconscious determination, Costa Rica closed its borders. Nevertheless, given the vital role that tourism plays in the local economy, Costa Rica stuck with plans to slowly reopen. This is no longer required!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 23, 2019
Now, a birder could even plan an entire trip to Costa Rica with eBird data. Well, you could, BUT there are a few good reasons for maybe not going that bird planning route at least for Costa Rica. These are some things to keep in mind when using eBird before, during, and after a trip to Costa Rica: Before the trip.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2022
Such ultra rare and imperiled biodiversity are the “ Critically Endangered “, species that, according to the IUCN, “have decreased, or will decrease by 80% within three generations” Five bird species on the Costa Rica bird list fall into this alarming category. Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2021
Baltimore Oriole- one of the more common wintering birds in Costa Rica. Based on birding this very morning from the back of my place in Costa Rica, I can guarantee that at least some Baltimore Orioles, Tennessee Warblers , a Painted Bunting and a few other migrants are still far to the south. More Birds are Singing.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2022
Costa Rica is more than cloud forest with mega worthy quetzals, more than rainforest with fancy Keel-billed Toucans and luscious Green Honeycreepers. Not a huge number, especially compared to forest communities, but still enough to make the birding in Costa Rica interesting. Yellow-bellied Seedeater.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
After moving to Costa Rica in 2007, my fall migration took on a different approach. But it happened nonetheless and if you go birding in Costa Rica in September, especially during October, you can’t help but notice. Just as in the north, fall migration in Costa Rica doesn’t happen for two or three short weeks.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2021
The Rufous-naped Wren is a very animated, common species in Costa Rica. As with so many other exercises in anthropomorphism, this one is absurd as the rest, at least in this dimension of reality but if Costa Rica had to choose 5 such ambassadors, these might make good candidates: Ornate Hawk-Eagle. Scarlet Macaw.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
It depends on what a birder wants to see and in Costa Rica, there’s always a lot to choose from. They might be regular in South Texas but not in Costa Rica. On our fateful day, this rare vagrant for Costa Rica perched on a nearby ferry for wonderful views. You might see a White-throated Magpie-Jay.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2020
Crimson-fronted Parakeets- one of our city birds in Costa Rica. It’s not like when a birder is visiting Arizona and hoping for “the trogon” (aka Elegant Trogon ) because when a birder walks in Costa Rica, there are nine of these eye-catching beauties to look for. A female Baird’s Trogon.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2021
Here’s some of what I learned and was reminded of from an October 9th of birds in Costa Rica: Major Birding Doesn’t Stop During a Pandemic. This is an excellent total of bird species identified in Costa Rica for one calendar day. The Number of Birders in Costa Rica Keeps Growing. and Slaty Finch.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2020
In Costa Rica, February is a different birding story. To give an idea of the types of birds waiting to be seen in Costa Rica, the following are a random selection of some of the many beautiful and exciting resident bird species that can be encountered while birding Costa Rica in February: Buff-fronted Quail-Dove.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2021
Go to Costa Rica and you will be looking at other birds but you can still get in some Caribbean slope birding. Despite the Central American nation being occasionally confused with Puerto Rico, Costa Rica is not an island, it doesn’t really count as “Caribbean birding”, so what gives? Nice Migration!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2021
They covered so much water so quickly, so effortlessly, I understood how they could wander from Hawaii to Costa Rica, make steady constant progress over countless kilometers of waves and deep blue water. An expected offshore bird in Costa Rica, the small bicolored shearwater was one of many targets during our 7 hour sojourn.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2022
Today, along with teams in a few other parts of Costa Rica and elsewhere, I will be birding for a cause, watching birds to help one that only lives in Costa Rica, the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. To help protect this beautiful sparrow that only occurs in Costa Rica, please see the 2022 Birdathon GoFundMe page.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2020
In Costa Rica, the tenth month is when birds pass through in droves. In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. Even while listening to nocturnal flight calls, it seems hard to assess what flies over Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2021
I don’t know if I can make these happen but I’m making some 2021 Costa Rica birding resolutions anyways! The more birds the better and there’s a lot to see in Costa Rica! It would be nice to visit sites that are little birded and the few places in Costa Rica I have never been.
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