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


Two of three Costa Rican Tody-Flycatchers

Pectoral Sandpiper at Angostura

Yellowlegs – but which one?

Three beautiful bright-red birds in our area

Big Day – Great Black Hawk at Rio Tuis

Highland endemics: Black-thighed Grosbeaks and others at the Turrialba Volcano

Wood-Rails – Confusion over the recent split

White-winged Becard and Ochre-bellied Flycatcher – ID problems

Bicolored Hawk, sitting pretty

Hook-billed Kites back at Aquiares

White-tailed Kite hovers over San Antonio

An early arrival – Swainson’s Thrush

Green Ibis – courtship display

Scarlet-rumped Tanager is back

An angry Tanager

Lapwings and Trogons

Limpkin and Snail Kite at Angostura

Kingfishers at Angostura, Turrialba

Yellow birds nesting in a Costa Rican garden

Raptors great and small: Ornate Hawk-Eagle and Merlin now in our area

One tree, many birds

Flocking Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
