Category Archives: Rare birds

posts about rare sightings and life birds (first-time sightings)

Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo

Black phase Hook-billed Kite

A Costa Rican endemic – Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow

Hooded Warbler and a few other migrant warblers

Golden-winged Warbler and other migrant warblers

Collared Forest-falcon at Aquiares

Double-striped Thick-knee

Scaly-throated foliage-gleaner

Lovely Cotinga

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl and fledglings

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

Blackpoll Warbler at Aquiares

Barred Forest-Falcon at La Marta

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

Hook-billed Kite – San Antonio de Turrialba

Great Jacamar – a Caribbean rarity

Sungrebe – a new species for Cartago Province

Great Green Macaw – in numbers!

One year later – Roseate Spoonbill still at Angostura

Zone-tailed Hawk at CATIE

Lanceolated Monklet at Refugio de Vida Silvestre La Marta

Northern Parula, Worm-eating Warbler and other unusual migrants at Aquiares

Rough-legged Tyrannulet

Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher at Aquiares