10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

This can be a long drive from San Jose, especially with road construction and slow and seemingly eternal truck traffic, but once you get there, the voyage is worth it. To properly assess owls, other night birds, and the dawn chorus, you really have to be out and about by 4:30. Male White-flanked Antwren.

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Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Owls 278

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2014

Despite more than 50 kite, hawk, eagle, and falcon species on the list, nope, we don’t see raptors all that often! I didn’t even include owls in the 50 plus list species of raptors. This is a pair of Tropical Screech-Owls from the Osa Peninsula. San Jose Traffic : Ouch! Not the case in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica San Jose Birds Owls 175

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

That’s where most of Costa Rica’s population resides and because of that, it’s also why we headed out around dawn, happily leaving the long line of vehicles on their way to San Jose in the rear view mirror. of Ornithology being in our vehicle, eBird lists were a constant.

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Costa Rica San Jose Birds Farming 138

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2015

From San Jose, it takes four to four and a half hours but given the excellent birding opps on the way, you might want to allocate a bit more time. Although a straight fast road might not seem to be a big deal, it’s a rare, welcome occurrence in seriously mountainous Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2020

Falcon State Park (LTC 084). Falcon State Park (LTC 084). Rio san jose. Eastern Screech-Owl – Megascops asio. Spectacled Owl – Pulsatrix perspicillata. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl – Glaucidium brasilianum. Little Owl – Athene noctua. Striped Owl – Asio clamator.

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2020 Sanctuary Australia Sparrows 161