10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Few places boast so many different bird species in such a small area — over 900 species (more than Europe, or all of the United States and Canada combined), including 75 different families, like 51 species of hummingbirds, 48 warblers, and 45 tanagers. It was close to 5 a.m., the best time for city traffic to eat me alive.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2022
You’ll probably hear them first, like so many others of their family, they aren’t shy about making some noise. Arrive at the airport near San Jose in the day and you could easily see them fly overhead. In a nutshell, that’s a lot of Costa Rica, that’s a lot of Crimson-fronted Parakeets.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
This is how we saw 300 plus species in three days on day trips out of the San Jose area and it’s only one of several options: High and middle elevations. The next day saw us making our way to El Tapir for close views of the Snowcap , a surreal fairy of a creature that stands out in an already surreal family.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2011
Zamora Estate protects acres of unspoiled habitat within one of the fastest growing sections of San Jose, a holding that has sustained four generations of the Zamora family. Zamora Estate offers the ideal launching pad for adventures in the Central Valley and both the Pacific and Caribbean slopes.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
I sample birding on Poas more often than at other sites in Costa Rica because it’s close to home and makes for a worthwhile guided day trip from the San Jose area. Lot of wrens and thrushes : Quite a few members of these families also chatter and sing from thickets and forest. This Red-faced Spinetail was one of them.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2017
Although a lot of beautiful rainforest was replaced by bananas, cattle pasture, and other ag-lands many years ago, at least we can still enjoy great birding at a number of sites, most of which are easily accessible including Sarapiqui, the most visited site in the lowlands north of San Jose.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
This is a protected area that includes the Los Cusingos Bird refuge, where we were guided by Andres Chinchilla, a young man who as a child ran around the farm where his family worked, and was to become this incredible bird refuge. His years of experience in this area were quite obvious as we found 62 species in one morning.
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