10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
Most of all, I love showing people birds, species both common and mysteriously evasive. Whether a birder is eager for eyefulls of common species or needs to test the birding Zen and. Although we didn’t start out the birding that way, on the third day, we did find ourselves wondering if we were approaching 300 species.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2022
Since most of the rain happened the evening of the 8th and the following morning, many sites had good weather on the morning of October Global Big Day and because of that, local birders still managed to identify well over 700 species in Costa Rica (!). and ended later that eveing with a final total of 154 species.
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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! That’s because most are forest-based species and are naturally rare. I didn’t even include owls in the 50 plus list species of raptors. San Jose Traffic : Ouch!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2016
The proximity of both slopes also facilitates seeing a lot of different species in a short span because the montane barrier has resulted in differences in terms of species and habitats. In Costa Rica, that would mean the Sarapiqui area because this is where we find the closest Caribbean lowland forests to San Jose.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2018
Northern Emerald Toucanets in Costa Rica are sometimes considered a separate species known as the Blue-throated Toucanet. Yellow-thighed Finch , one of several common species in the forests of Coronado. . This bad boy beauty isn’t even rare!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2015
It’s sort of stuck between San Jose and Cartago and since it’s a volcano, it doesn’t stop at dominating the skyline. Go up there before dawn and you might even hear and see Unspotted Saw-whet Owl along with much more common Bare-shanked Screech-Owl and Dusky Nightjar. I know, MODO, whoop-de-mofo-doo!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2015
Yes, the time had come to see how many of Costa Rica’s hummingbird species we could find, and we had two days to work with. Fortunately, we did see one, and saw it well after an amazing degree of pishing/pygmy-owl imitation effort. The nice thing about this Big Dayish endeavor was not having to start in the middle of the night.
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