Category Archives: Around Turrialba

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

Anhinga – the Snake Bird is now nesting at CATIE

Boat-billed Heron – signature bird at CATIE

Rufous Motmot – nesting at Bonilla Arriba

Tufted Flycatchers at Bonilla Arriba

Tawny-capped and Ruddy-tailed Flycatchers at Refugio La Marta, Pejibaye

Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant at Finca Tres Equis: first photos for Cartago

Finca Tres Equis: First photos of a Blue-chested Hummingbird for Cartago Province

Vireos – Yellow-green and Red-eyed

Elaenias around Turrialba

Collared Redstart – el amigo del hombre

Blue-and-gold Tanager: another endemic

First good photos of the Harris’s Hawk at Angostura, Turrialba

Resplendent Quetzal – always present at the Turrialba Volcano

Yellow-eared Toucanet – Costa Rica’s rarest toucan

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