After being grounded by the Covid pandemic for about eighteen months, it was so nice to return to Costa Rica with some Indiana friends. The trip was once again organized and led by friend and Costa Rican guide Juan Diego Vargas. We concentrated on some more remote areas in the northern portion of the country, targeting some tough to find specialty birds. We saw or heard over 400 species of birds, including 21 raptors, 10 owls, 12 parrots, 6 motmots, 5 Kingfishers, 8 trogons, 15 wrens, and 27 hummingbirds! Once more, we enjoyed amazing scenery, beautiful lodges, and fascinating wildlife. Best of all, thanks to Juan Diego, we found an amazing list of rare birds.
Great Curassow
Gray-headed Chachalaca
Black-eared Wood-quail
Sungrebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Anhinga
Bare-throated Tiger-heron
Agami Heron
Northern Jacana
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
King Vulture
Ornate Hawk-eagle
Laughing Falcon
Great Potoo
Mangrove Swallow
Violet Sabrewing
Green Hermit
Green-crowned Brilliant
Purple-crowned Fairy
Blue-chested Hummingbird
Blue-vented Hummingbird
Crowned Woodnymph
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird
Coppery-headed Emerald
Blue-throated Goldentail
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
Lesser Violetear
Purple-throated Mountain-gem
Green Thorntail
Black-crested Coquette
Snowcap
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Magenta-throated Woodstar
Olive-throated Parakeet
Orange-fronted Parakeet
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Squirrel Cuckoo
Black-headed Trogon
Elegant Trogon (female)
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Resplendent Quetzal
Lesson's Motmot
Broad-billed Motmot
Turquoise-browed Motmot
Tody Motmot
Amazon Kingfisher
Green-and-rufous Kingfisher
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Emerald Toucanet
Collared Aracari
Keel-billed Toucan
Yellow-throated Toucan
Black-cheeked Woodpecker
Hoffmann's Woodpecker
Golden-olive Woodpecker
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
Spotted Barbtail
Barred Antshrike
Yellowish Flycatcher
Common Tody-flycatcher
Long-tailed Tyrant
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Nutting's Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Cinnamon Becard
Red-capped Manakin
Bare-necked Umbrellabird
Slaty-backed Nightingale-thrush
Rufous-breasted Wren
Spot-breasted Wren
Rufous-and-white Wren
Gray-breasted Wood-wren
Rufous-browed Peppershrike
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
Costa Rican Warbler
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
Palm Tanager
Black and Yellow Tanager
Silver-throated Tanager (adult and juvenile)
Emerald Tanager
Rufous-winged Tanager
Green Honeycreeper
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Nicaraguan Seed-finch
Thick-billed Seed-finch
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Sooty-faced Finch
Stripe-headed Sparrow
Common Chlorospingus
Streak-backed Oriole
Black-cowled Oriole
Olive-backed Euphonia
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Yellow-crowned Euphonia
Costa Rica trip images
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