
Category Archives: Around Turrialba
posts about my bird sightings, as well as news and events from around the Turrialba area of Costa Rica


Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

Blackpoll Warbler at Aquiares

Barred Forest-Falcon at La Marta

Costa Rica’s official bird species list now confirmed at 924

Bright-rumped Attila

Spectacular Sunbittern show on the Rio Taus

In my Costa Rican Garden – Stripe-throated Hermit

Great Jacamar – a Caribbean rarity

Flame-colored Tanager

Spangle-cheeked Tanager – beautiful highland endemic species

White-throated Flycatcher – an Empidonax Flycatcher resident in Costa Rica

Stripe-tailed Hummingbird can be hard to pin down

Sungrebe – a new species for Cartago Province

Ochre-bellied flycatcher with morning cup of Costa Rican coffee

Yellow Tyrannulet

Lineated Woodpecker

Red-legged Honeycreeper at Santa Rosa

In my Costa Rican garden – Lesson’s Motmot

Nesting Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls

Red-winged Blackbird

One year later – Roseate Spoonbill still at Angostura

Striped Owl by night at Santa Rosa
