Category Archives: Around Turrialba
posts about my bird sightings, as well as news and events from around the Turrialba area of Costa Rica
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
Tanagers flock to La Marta
Prothonotary Warbler – a beautiful migrant
Yellow-winged Vireo – only in Costa Rica and western Panama
Yellow-throated Toucan
Snowy Cotinga
Two of three Costa Rican Tody-Flycatchers
Pectoral Sandpiper at Angostura
Yellowlegs – but which one?
Three beautiful bright-red birds in our area
Big Day – Great Black Hawk at Rio Tuis
Highland endemics: Black-thighed Grosbeaks and others at the Turrialba Volcano
Wood-Rails – Confusion over the recent split
White-winged Becard and Ochre-bellied Flycatcher – ID problems
Bicolored Hawk, sitting pretty
Hook-billed Kites back at Aquiares
White-tailed Kite hovers over San Antonio
