SPECIES |
WHERE ENCOUNTERED |
TINAMOUS | |
Great Tinamou |
Hitoy-Cerere heard, Rincon NP |
Little Tinamou |
Hitoy-Cerere heard, 4 days |
PELICANS |
|
Brown Pelican |
Tarcoles, Carib coast |
CORMORANTS |
|
Neotropic Cormorant |
6 days |
ANHINGAS |
|
Anhinga |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
FRIGATEBIRDS |
|
Magnificent Frigatebird |
both coasts |
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS |
|
Great Blue Heron |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Great Egret |
7 days |
Tricolored Heron |
Carib coast, Cano Negro |
Little Blue Heron |
9 days |
Snowy Egret |
7 days |
Cattle Egret |
6 days |
Green Heron |
8 days |
Black-crowned Night-Heron |
Colorado salinas |
Yellow-crown Night-Heron |
Tarcoles, Colorado |
Boat-billed Heron |
Cano Negro |
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron |
Cano Negro, many |
Least Bittern |
Tigre marsh (uncommon) |
Pinnated Bittern |
Tigre, Cano Negro (rare) |
STORKS |
|
Wood Stork |
Colorado salinas, Cano Negro |
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS |
|
Green Ibis |
Tigre marsh, many |
White Ibis |
Colorado salinas, Cano Negro |
Roseate Spoonbill |
Tarcoles, Colorado salinas |
DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS |
|
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck |
5 days |
Muscovy Duck |
Tarcoles |
Blue-winged Teal |
Cano Negro |
NEW WORLD VULTURES |
|
Black Vulture |
10 days |
Turkey Vulture |
daily |
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture |
Cano Negro |
King Vulture |
3 at La Selva |
OSPREY |
|
Osprey |
6 days |
HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES |
|
White-tailed Kite |
6 days |
Snail Kite |
Cano Negro |
Mississippi Kite |
Carib coast migration |
Common Black-Hawk |
Carib coast |
Mangrove Black-Hawk |
Tarcoles |
Harris's Hawk |
way to Cano Negro |
Black-collared Hawk |
Cano Negro, several |
Gray Hawk |
Tarcoles |
Roadside Hawk |
Tarcoles, Rincon NP, 4 days |
Broad-winged Hawk |
Carib coast, 1000s |
Short-tailed Hawk |
Cahuita area, Kiri, 4 days |
Swainson's Hawk |
Carib coast migration |
Zone-tailed Hawk |
way to Cano Negro |
Black Hawk-Eagle |
Cahuita area |
FALCONS AND CARACARAS |
|
Crested Caracara |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Yellow-headed Caracara |
Tarcoles |
Laughing Falcon |
Colorado salinas, Cano Negro |
Barred Forest-Falcon |
Rancho Naturalista |
Slaty-back Forest-Falcon |
heard HawkWatch Tr |
American Kestrel |
Rincon de la Vieja NP |
Merlin |
Cahuita area |
Bat Falcon |
Cahuita area, 4 days |
Peregrine Falcon |
Carib coast migration |
GUANS, CHACHALACAS, CURASSOWS |
|
Gray-headed Chachalaca |
Rancho Naturalista |
Crested Guan |
heard, Rincon NP |
NEW WORLD QUAIL |
|
Crested Bobwhite |
Rincon NP |
<>LIMPKIN | |
Limpkin |
La Guinea, Cano Negro |
RAILS, GALLINULES AND COOTS |
|
White-throated Crake |
6 days, seen Cano |
Gray-necked Wood-Rail |
Cano Negro, ~15 |
Purple Gallinule |
Tigre marsh |
Common Moorhen |
Lankester ponds |
American Coot |
Lankester ponds |
JACANAS |
|
Northern Jacana |
7 days |
AVOCETS AND STILTS |
|
Black-necked Stilt |
Tarcoles, Colorado salinas |
THICK-KNEES |
|
Double-striped Thick-knee |
near Colorado |
PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS |
|
Black-bellied Plover |
Tarcoles, Cahuita 4 days |
Semipalmated Plover |
5 days |
Wilson's Plover |
Colorado salinas |
Collared Plover |
mouth of Rio Tarcoles |
SANDPIPERS |
|
Wilson's Snipe |
Cano Negro, uncommon |
Short-billed Dowitcher |
Tarcoles, Colorado |
Whimbrel |
Tarcoles, Colorado salinas, 4 days |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
Tarcoles, Colorado salinas |
Spotted Sandpiper |
6 days |
Willet |
Tarcoles, Colorado salinas, 4 days |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Tarcoles, Carib coast |
Sanderling |
Tarcoles |
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
Colorado salinas |
Western Sandpiper |
Tarcoles, Colorado salinas |
Least Sandpiper |
Tarcoles, Colorado salinas |
TERNS |
|
Elegant Tern |
Rio Tarcoles, uncommon |
Sandwich Tern |
mouth of Rio Tarcoles |
Royal Tern |
mouth of Rio Tarcoles |
PIGEONS AND DOVES |
|
Rock Dove |
7 days |
Pale-vented Pigeon |
6 days |
Red-billed Pigeon |
Tarcoles, Carib lowlands |
Short-billed Pigeon |
Cahuita area |
White-winged Dove |
Tarcoles, Rancho Nat area |
Common Ground-Dove |
La Guinea |
Plain-breasted Ground-Dove |
La Guinea |
Ruddy Ground-Dove |
10 days |
Inca Dove |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Blue Ground-Dove |
Tigre marsh, pair |
White-tipped Dove |
6 days |
Gray-headed Dove |
Cano Negro |
quail-dove sp |
Cano Negro |
PARROTS |
|
Scarlet Macaw |
Tarcoles |
Crimson-fronted Parakeet |
Tarcoles, Silent Mt |
Olive-throated Parakeet |
Cano Negro |
Orange-fronted Parakeet |
way to Cano Negro |
Sulphur-winged Parakeet |
Silent Mountain |
Orange-chinned Parakeet |
6 days |
Brown-hooded Parrot |
Silent Mountain |
Blue-headed Parrot |
Cahuita area |
White-crowned Parrot |
Cahuita area, La Virgen |
White-fronted Parrot |
Rincon de la Vieja NP |
Red-lored Parrot |
6 days |
CUCKOOS |
|
Squirrel Cuckoo |
Cahuita area, Liberia |
Groove-billed Ani |
10 days |
Lesser Ground-Cuckoo |
heard way to Rincon |
OWLS |
|
Mottled Owl |
Kiri Lodge |
Black-and-white Owl |
Orotina |
Central Am Pygmy-Owl |
Hitoy-Cerere NP, rare |
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl |
Tarcoles |
POTOOS |
|
Common Potoo |
Cahuita |
NIGHTJARS |
|
Short-tailed Nighthawk |
Cahuita area |
Lesser Nighthawk |
Cahuita area |
Pauraque |
heard Hitoy-Cerere NP |
SWIFTS |
|
White-collared Swift |
6 days |
Gray-rumped Swift |
Cahuita area, La Selva |
Chimney Swift |
way to Cahuita migration |
Vaux's Swift |
Rincon de la Vieja NP |
HUMMINGBIRDS |
|
Bronzy Hermit |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Green Hermit |
Rancho Nat, Cinchona |
Western Long-tailed Hermit |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Stripe-throated Hermit |
Hitoy-Cerere, 4 days |
Green-fronted Lancebill |
Tapanti NP |
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird |
Tarcoles |
Violet Sabrewing |
Rancho Nat, Cano Negro |
White-necked Jacobin |
Rancho Naturalista |
Green Violet-ear |
Rancho Nat, Kiri, Cinchona |
Green-breasted Mango |
Rancho, La Guinea |
Green Thorntail |
Kiri Lodge |
Canivet's Emerald |
Rincon de la Vieja NP |
Coppery-headed Emerald |
Kiri Lodge, Cinchona |
Black-bellied Hummingbird |
Kiri Lodge |
Violet-crowned Woodnymph |
5 days |
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird |
10 days |
Cinnamon Hummingbird |
Rincon NP, La Guinea |
Blue-chested Hummingbird |
Cahuita area |
Steely-vented Hummingbird |
Tarcoles, Rincon |
Snowcap |
Rancho Naturalista |
White-bellied Mountain-gem |
Rancho - Kiri |
Green-crowned Brilliant |
Rancho Nat, Cinchona |
Purple-crowned Fairy |
Rancho Naturalista |
Magenta-throated Woodstar |
Kiri Lodge |
TROGONS AND QUETZALS |
|
Black-headed Trogon |
Cano Negro |
Violaceous Trogon |
Tarcoles, Cahuita area |
Collared Trogon |
Rancho Nat, Tapanti NP |
Black-throated Trogon |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Slaty-tailed Trogon |
Cahuita area |
KINGFISHERS |
|
Ringed Kingfisher |
Cano Negro, 4 days |
Amazon Kingfisher |
Cano Negro, 4 days |
Green Kingfisher |
Cano Negro |
MOTMOTS |
|
Blue-crowned Motmot |
Tarcoles, Rincon NP |
Rufous Motmot |
Rancho Naturalista |
Turquoise-browed Motmot |
way to Cano Negro |
PUFFBIRDS |
|
White-necked Puffbird |
Cahuita area |
BARBETS |
|
Red-headed Barbet |
Silent Mt, Tapanti NP |
Prong-billed Barbet |
Silent Mt, Tapanti NP |
TOUCANS |
|
Blue-throated Toucanet |
Silent Mountain |
Collared Aracari |
6 days |
Keel-billed Toucan |
6 days |
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
WOODPECKERS |
|
Acorn Woodpecker |
Silent Mountain |
Black-cheeked Woodpecker |
8 days |
Hoffmann's Woodpecker |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Smoky-brown Woodpecker |
Christina, Silent Mt |
Golden-olive Woodpecker |
Rancho, Silent Mt |
Cinnamon Woodpecker |
Cahuita area |
Chestnut-colored Woodpecker |
Cahuita area |
Lineated Woodpecker |
Cahuita, Cano Negro |
Pale-billed Woodpecker |
Cahuita area, Rincon |
OVENBIRDS |
|
Slaty Spinetail |
Silent Mountain, Cano Negro |
Red-faced Spinetail |
Rancho Nat, Tapanti NP |
Lineated Foliage-gleaner |
Tapanti NP |
Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner |
Cahuita area |
WOODCREEPERS |
|
Olivaceous Woodcreeper |
Silent Mountain |
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Northern Barred-Woodcreeper |
Cahuita area |
Black-banded Woodcreeper |
Rincon NP |
Cocoa Woodcreeper |
7 days |
Spotted Woodcreeper |
Silent Mountain |
Streak-headed Woodcreeper |
5 days |
TYPICAL ANTBIRDS |
|
Fasciated Antshrike |
La Selva |
Great Antshrike |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Barred Antshrike |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Western Slaty-Antshrike |
Cahuita area |
Checker-throated Antwren |
Cahuita area |
White-flanked Antwren |
Cahuita area |
Slaty Antwren |
Tapanti NP |
Dot-winged Antwren |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Dusky Antbird |
Cano Negro |
Bare-crowned Antbird |
Cano Negro, rare |
Chestnut-backed Antbird |
Cahuita area |
Dull-mantled Antbird |
Rancho Mine Road |
Immaculate Antbird |
Tapanti NP |
Bicolored Antbird |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Spotted Antbird |
Hawk Watch Trail |
ANTTHRUSHES AND ANTPITTAS |
|
Black-faced Antthrush |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Black-crowned Antpitta |
Hitoy-Cerere NP, rare |
Scaled Antpitta |
Tapanti NP, rare |
Thicket Antpitta |
heard, Cahuita area |
TAPACULOS |
|
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo |
heard, Tapanti |
COTINGAS |
|
Snowy Cotinga |
Cahuita area |
Purple-throated Fruitcrow |
Cahuita area |
MANAKINS |
|
White-collared Manakin |
Cahuita area |
White-ruffed Manakin |
Silent Mountain |
Red-capped Manakin |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS |
|
Brown-capped Tyrannulet |
Cahuita area |
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet |
Cano Negro |
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet |
Tarcoles |
Yellow Tyrannulet |
Tigre marsh, Cano Negro |
Greenish Elaenia |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Yellow-bellied Elaenia |
Tigre, Cano Negro |
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher |
Cahuita area |
Olive-striped Flycatcher |
Silent Mt, Tapanti |
Paltry Tyrannulet |
6 days |
Northern Scrub-Flycatcher |
Tarcoles |
Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant |
Cahuita area |
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant |
Silent Mt |
Northern Bentbill |
Cano Negro |
Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher |
Cahuita area |
Common Tody-Flycatcher |
8 days |
Eye-ringed Flatbill |
Christina Farms |
Yellow-olive Flycatcher |
Christina, Cano Negro |
Yellow-margined Flycatcher |
Cahuita, La Selva |
Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Tawny-chested Flycatcher |
heard, Rancho Nat |
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
Cahuita area, Rancho |
Western Wood-Pewee |
Silent Mountain |
Eastern Wood-Pewee |
Cahuita area, 5 days |
Tropical Pewee |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
Tarcoles |
Acadian Flycatcher |
Cahuita area |
Traill’s (“Waldo”) Flycatcher |
Cahuita area |
Black Phoebe |
Rancho Nat, Tapanti NP |
Long-tailed Tyrant |
Cahuita area |
Bright-rumped Attila |
Tigre, Tapanti, 6 days |
Rufous Mourner |
Silent Mountain |
Dusky-capped Flycatcher |
Tarcoles, 6 days |
Great Crested Flycatcher |
Cahuita, Rancho |
Brown-crested Flycatcher |
La Guinea |
Great Kiskadee |
daily |
Boat-billed Flycatcher |
6 days |
Social Flycatcher |
9 days |
Gray-capped Flycatcher |
to Cahuita, La Selva |
Golden-bellied Flycatcher |
Tapanti NP |
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher |
Cahuita area |
Tropical Kingbird |
daily |
Eastern Kingbird |
Cahuita area migration |
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
Liberia |
Cinnamon Becard |
Cahuita area |
White-winged Becard |
Tarcoles |
Rose-throated Becard |
Tarcoles, La Guinea |
Masked Tityra |
Cahuita area |
Black-crowned Tityra |
Cahuita area |
SWALLOWS |
|
Gray-breasted Martin |
Limon, Cano Negro |
Mangrove Swallow |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Blue-and-white Swallow |
Kevin’s house, 7 days |
Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
Tigre marsh |
Southern Rough-winged Swallow |
La Selva |
Bank Swallow |
Cahuita area |
Cliff Swallow |
Tarcoles, 7 days |
Barn Swallow |
9 days |
DIPPERS |
|
American Dipper |
Tapanti NP |
WRENS |
|
Band-backed Wren |
Cahuita area |
Rufous-naped Wren |
Kevin’s house |
Black-throated Wren |
Rancho, Cano Negro |
Spot-breasted Wren |
Cano Negro (rare) |
Bay Wren |
heard 5 days |
Stripe-breasted Wren |
Cahuita area |
Banded Wren |
Rincon de la Vieja NP |
Plain Wren |
Christina Farms, Cano Negro |
House Wren |
Christina Farms, 7 days |
Ochraceous Wren |
Tapanti NP |
White-breasted Wood-Wren |
Rancho Nat |
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren |
Silent Mt, Tapanti |
Scaly-breasted Wren |
Cahuita area |
Song Wren |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS |
|
Tropical Mockingbird |
Siquirres, rare |
THRUSHES |
|
Black-faced Solitaire |
Tapanti NP |
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush |
Christina |
Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush |
Tapanti NP |
Gray-cheeked Thrush |
Hitoy-Cerere NP, rare |
Swainson's Thrush |
Christina Farms, 7 days |
Clay-colored Robin |
10 days |
GNATCATCHERS |
|
Long-billed Gnatwren |
Cahuita area |
White-lored Gnatcatcher |
Rincon de la Vieja NP |
Tropical Gnatcatcher |
Cahuia area, 6 days |
CROWS AND JAYS |
|
White-throated Magpie-Jay |
way to Liberia |
Black-chested Jay |
Cahuita area, local |
Brown Jay |
Rancho Naturalista, Kiri Lodge |
WAXBILLS AND ALLIES |
|
Black-headed Munia |
La Guinea, local |
VIREOS AND ALLIES |
|
Yellow-throated Vireo |
Rancho, Cano Negro |
Brown-capped Vireo |
Silent Mountain |
Red-eyed Vireo |
9 days |
Scrub Greenlet |
Tarcoles |
Lesser Greenlet |
8 days |
Rufous-browed Peppershrike |
Silent Mt, Cano |
WOOD WARBLERS |
|
Golden-winged Warbler |
Tapanti, Cano Negro |
Tennessee Warbler |
Cano Negro |
Nashville Warbler |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Tropical Parula |
Christina, Rancho Nat |
Yellow Warbler |
daily |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
10 days |
Townsend's Warbler |
Rincon NP, rare |
Blackburnian Warbler |
Christina Farms, Rancho |
Bay-breasted Warbler |
Cahuita area |
Black-and-white Warbler |
Christina, Tapanti NP |
American Redstart |
Cahuita area, Cano Negro |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Tarcoles, Cahuita area |
Northern Waterthrush |
7days |
Louisiana Waterthrush |
Rancho Mine Road |
Kentucky Warbler |
Rancho Naturalista |
Mourning Warbler |
Christina Farms |
Olive-crowned Yellowthroat |
to Cahuita, 5 days |
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat |
Tigre, Cano Negro |
Hooded Warbler |
Cano Negro, rare |
Wilson's Warbler |
Christina Farms |
Canada Warbler |
Tarcoles |
Slate-throated Redstart |
Silent Mt, Tapanti NP |
Rufous-capped Warbler |
Christina, Rancho Nat |
Three-striped Warbler |
Tapanti NP |
Buff-rumped Warbler |
Rancho Mine Road |
BANANAQUIT |
|
Bananaquit |
8 days |
TANAGERS AND ALLIES |
|
Common Bush-Tanager |
Silent Mt, Tapanti NP |
Gray-headed Tanager |
Rincon de la Vieja NP |
White-lined Tanager |
Cahuita area, Rancho Nat |
Red-throated Ant-Tanager |
to Cahuita, 5 days |
Scarlet Tanager |
Cahuita area |
Summer Tanager |
7 days |
Passerini's Tanager |
9 days |
Blue-gray Tanager |
10 days |
Palm Tanager |
7 days |
Scrub Euphonia |
Tarcoles, Cano Negro |
Yellow-crowned Euphonia |
La Selva, Cano |
Yellow-throated Euphonia |
Christina, Cano |
Elegant Euphonia |
Silent Mountain |
Olive-backed Euphonia |
La Selva, Cano Negro |
White-vented Euphonia |
on way to Limon |
Tawny-capped Euphonia |
Silent Mt, Tapanti NP |
Golden-browed Chlorophonia |
Silent Mountain |
Plain-colored Tanager |
Cahuita area |
Silver-throated Tanager |
Silent Mt, Cinchona |
Bay-headed Tanager |
Tapanti NP |
Golden-hooded Tanager |
7 days |
Spangle-cheeked Tanager |
Silent Mt, Tapanti |
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis |
La Selva, Tapanti NP |
Green Honeycreeper |
Cahuita area, La Selva |
Shining Honeycreeper |
Cahuita area, La Selva |
Red-legged Honeycreeper |
way to Cano Negro |
BUNTINGS, SEEDEATERS, ALLIES |
|
Blue-black Grassquit |
Rincon NP, Cano Negro |
Variable Seedeater |
9 days |
White-collared Seedeater |
La Guinea |
Nicaraguan Seed-Finch |
Tigre marsh |
Thick-billed Seed-Finch |
way to Cahuita, Tigre |
Yellow-faced Grassquit |
6 days |
White-naped Brush-Finch |
Christina Farms |
Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch |
Rancho, Tapanti |
SPARROWS, TOWHEES, JUNCOS |
|
Orange-billed Sparrow |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Black-striped Sparrow |
Cahuita, Cano Negro |
White-eared Ground-Sparrow |
Christina Farms |
Stripe-headed Sparrow |
Cano Negro |
Rufous-collared Sparrow |
5 days |
SALTATORS, CARDINALS AND ALLIES |
|
Grayish Saltator |
Kevin’s, Cano Negro |
Buff-throated Saltator |
Cahuita area, La Selva |
Black-headed Saltator |
Christina, Cahuita |
Slate-colored Grosbeak |
Hitoy-Cerere NP |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
way to Rancho Nat |
Blue-black Grosbeak |
way to Cahuita |
Blue Grosbeak |
Cano Negro |
Dickcissel |
to Cahuita, Tigre, Cano Negro |
BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, GRACKLES, ETC. |
|
Red-winged Blackbird |
Tigre, Cano Negro |
Eastern Meadowlark |
Tigre marsh, La Guinea |
Melodious Blackbird |
La Guinea, Cinchona |
Great-tailed Grackle |
daily |
Bronzed Cowbird |
way to Tapanti |
Spot-breasted Oriole |
La Guinea |
Streak-backed Oriole |
La Guinea |
Baltimore Oriole |
7 days |
Orchard Oriole |
La Guinea |
Black-cowled Oriole |
Cano Negro, 4 days |
Yellow-billed Cacique |
Tigre, Cano Negro |
Scarlet-rumped Cacique |
Cahuita, 5 days |
Chestnut-headed Oropendola |
Tapanti NP |
Montezuma Oropendola |
8 days |
OLD WORLD SPARROWS |
|
House Sparrow |
way to Cahuita, Cano Negro |