Category Archives: Rare birds
posts about rare sightings and life birds (first-time sightings)
Blue-and-gold Tanager: another endemic
First good photos of the Harris’s Hawk at Angostura, Turrialba
Yellow-eared Toucanet – Costa Rica’s rarest toucan
Dull-mantled Antbird – La Marta
Great Potoo at CATIE
Great Green Macaw – good news
Pectoral Sandpiper at Angostura
Costa Rica’s only truly migrant hummingbird
Big Day – Great Black Hawk at Rio Tuis
Bicolored Hawk, sitting pretty
Hook-billed Kites back at Aquiares
Yellow-throated Vireo at Ujarrás
Snowy Owl
Ruby-throated hummingbird and Gray-cheeked Thrush at Las Brisas
Pinnated and Least Bittern at Angostura
Wattled Jaçana at Casa Turire
Agami Heron and much more at Las Brisas in Limón province
Plumbeous Kite at San Pablo de Pacuare
Aplomado Falcon near Cartago
Bicolored Hawk at Quebrada La Loca
White-whiskered Puffbird – you can’t invent a better name!
Magnolia Warbler? – very late migration date
