Category Archives: Around Turrialba

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

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

Muscovy Duck

Belted Kingfisher – our only migrant kingfisher

Boat-billed Heron in flight

Zone-tailed Hawk at CATIE

Lanceolated Monklet at Refugio de Vida Silvestre La Marta

Northern Parula, Worm-eating Warbler and other unusual migrants at Aquiares

Rough-legged Tyrannulet

Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher at Aquiares