Category Archives: Around Turrialba
posts about my bird sightings, as well as news and events from around the Turrialba area of Costa Rica
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
Turrialba Volcano slope – first visit of 2018
Peralta – tiger-herons, vultures and caracaras
Birds for Beer 