Category Archives: identification problems

Costa Rica’s official bird species list now confirmed at 924

White-throated Flycatcher – an Empidonax Flycatcher resident in Costa Rica

Stripe-tailed Hummingbird can be hard to pin down

Yellow Tyrannulet

Nesting Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls

Striped Owl by night at Santa Rosa

Belted Kingfisher – our only migrant kingfisher

Rough-legged Tyrannulet

Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher at Aquiares

Hepatic Tanager

Plain-breasted Ground Dove – new to our area

Garden Emerald – glittering green

Ochre-bellied Flycatcher

At the Aquiares look-out – 3 common species not easy to spot

Purple-throated Fruitcrow and other uncommon sightings

Lattice-tailed Trogon at Torre Alta de Pavones

Cerulean Warbler – first migrant warblers arrive

Lineated Foliage-Gleaner in hiding at Las Abras

Pygmy-Owls in or near Turrialba

Black-crowned Tityra

Turrialba Volcano Slope -Quetzals and much more

Hungry juvenile Collared Redstart

In my Costa Rican garden: Streak-headed Woodcreeper

In a Costa Rican garden: Roadside Hawk