Category Archives: Around Turrialba
posts about my bird sightings, as well as news and events from around the Turrialba area of Costa Rica
Shining Honeycreeper
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Anhinga – the Snake Bird is now nesting at CATIE
Boat-billed Heron – signature bird at CATIE
Rufous Motmot – nesting at Bonilla Arriba
Tufted Flycatchers at Bonilla Arriba
Tawny-capped and Ruddy-tailed Flycatchers at Refugio La Marta, Pejibaye
Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant at Finca Tres Equis: first photos for Cartago
Finca Tres Equis: First photos of a Blue-chested Hummingbird for Cartago Province
Vireos – Yellow-green and Red-eyed
Elaenias around Turrialba
Collared Redstart – el amigo del hombre
Blue-and-gold Tanager: another endemic
First good photos of the Harris’s Hawk at Angostura, Turrialba
Resplendent Quetzal – always present at the Turrialba Volcano
Yellow-eared Toucanet – Costa Rica’s rarest toucan
Falcons and caracaras in Turrialba
Top Ten Hawks in Turrialba
Long-tailed Silky-Flycatchers abound at Calle Vargas
Ochraceous Wren & Spangle-cheeked Tanager – two more Costa Rican endemics
Great Potoo at CATIE
5 Hummingbirds at La Marta
