Category Archives: Around Turrialba

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

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

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