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My Costa Rica Itinerary
- San Jose [map] (1 night)
- Puerto Viejo de Talamanca [map] (2 nights)
- Tortuguero [map] (1 night)
- Rara Avis [map] (2 nights)
- La Fortuna [map] (3 nights)
- Monteverde [map] (2 nights)
- Quepos [map] (3 nights)
- San Jose (1 night)
Group leader: the incomparable Vanessa Willing.
Bird and Wildlife Log
Thanks to Kevin Laves for help compiling this list. (And for help finding these critters in the first place.)
| species (common name) | location | comments |
|---|---|---|
| long-nosed bat | Caño Negro | |
| jesus christ lizard (basilisk) | Caño Negro | |
| howler mono | Caño Negro | |
| painted turtle | Caño Negro | |
| white-faced monkey | Caño Negro | |
| blue morpho butterfly | Caño Negro | |
| collared anteater (tamandua) | Caño Negro | |
| army ants | Cahuita | |
| leafcutter ants | Cahuita | |
| spider monkey | ||
| pit viper | Cahuita | yellow, white |
| coral snake | Rara Avis | black & red |
| brilliant rainforest tree frog | Rara Avis | |
| amazon kingfisher | Caño Negro | |
| green kingfisher | Caño Negro | |
| olivaceous cormorant | Caño Negro | |
| anhinga | Caño Negro | |
| snowy egret | Caño Negro | |
| great blue heron | Caño Negro | |
| green-backed heron | Caño Negro | |
| limpkin | Caño Negro | call only |
| mangrove swallow | Caño Negro | |
| great egret | Caño Negro | |
| osprey | Caño Negro | |
| black-headed trogon | Caño Negro | |
| squirrel cuckoo | Caño Negro | |
| spectacled caiman | Caño Negro | |
| ringed kingfisher | Caño Negro | |
| sungrebe | Caño Negro | "sungrebie" |
| great potoo | Caño Negro | |
| crested caracara | Caño Negro | |
| little blue heron | Caño Negro | |
| bare-throated tiger heron | Caño Negro | |
| collared aracari | Caño Negro | |
| boat-billed heron | Caño Negro | |
| black-necked stilt | Caño Negro | |
| wood stork | Caño Negro | |
| white ibis | Caño Negro | |
| snail kite | Caño Negro | |
| spotted sandpiper | Caño Negro | |
| northern jacana | Caño Negro | |
| roseate spoonbill | Caño Negro | |
| groove-billed ani | Caño Negro | |
| great kiskadee | Caño Negro | |
| red winged blackbird | Caño Negro | |
| american wigeon | Caño Negro | in flight |
| black-crowned night heron | Caño Negro | |
| slaty-tailed trogon | Cahuita | |
| magnificent frigatebird | Cahuita | |
| caspian tern | Cahuita | |
| royal tern | Cahuita | |
| Brown Pelican | Cahuita | |
| yellow-crowned night heron | Cahuita | |
| antbird sp. | Cahuita | |
| tricolored heron | ||
| cattle egret | ||
| whimbrel | Tortuguero | 90% positive ID |
| killdeer | ||
| turkey vulture | ||
| black vulture | ||
| mealy parrot | bad lighting | |
| hummingbird, coppery-headed emerald | Monteverde | |
| hummingbird, purple-throated mountain gem | Monteverde | |
| hummingbird, violet sabrewing | Monteverde | |
| hummingbird, green violet-ear | Monteverde | |
| hummingbird | Monteverde | ? |
| hummingbird | Monteverde | ? |
| hummingbird | Monteverde | ? |
| orange-bellied trogon | Monteverde | |
| black-breasted wood-quail | Monteverde | |
| slate-throated redstart | Monteverde | |
| resplendent quetzal | Monteverde | 2 males |
| belted kingfisher | ||
| chestnut-mandibled toucan | Rara Avis | |
| bay wren | Rara Avis | |
| black phoebe | ||
| mississippi kite | ||
| wilson's warbler | ||
| prothonotary warbler | ||
| mangrove warbler | Quepos (mangrove kayak trip) | |
| montezuma oropendola | ||
| great-tailed grackle | ||
| summer tanager | Rara Avis | |
| easter meadowlark | call only? | |
| blue-grey tanager | Fortuna | |
| fiery-billed toucan | Lake Arenal (horseback ride) | seen by Vanessa |