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 at Aquiares

In a Costa Rican garden: Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

In a Costa Rican garden: Groove-billed Ani

In a Costa Rican garden: White-tipped Dove

In a Costa Rican garden: Red-billed Pigeon

White-tipped Sicklebill

Blue-and-gold Tanager

Ochraceous Wren

Red-headed Barbet

Band-tailed Barbthroat at San Rafael de Santa Cruz

Resplendent Quetzals and 6 mountain hummingbirds

Tricolored Heron

Bicolored Antbird – Tayutic

Harris’s Hawk

Angostura Pt. II – Baird’s Sandpiper

Shorebirds at Angostura

Lovely Cotinga

Barred Forest-Falcon at La Marta

Olive-striped Flycatcher on Turrialba Volcano road

Great birding at Las Brisas – Pt. 2

King Vulture at calf carcass

Shining Honeycreeper

Violet-headed Hummingbird

Anhinga – the Snake Bird is now nesting at CATIE