Category Archives: Rare birds

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

Plain-breasted Ground Dove – new to our area

Blue Seedeater – another new bird close to home

Northern Harrier – Rare Turrialba sighting

Stilt Sandpiper at Angostura

Great Green Macaw – reclaiming parts of its range

Purple-throated Fruitcrow and other uncommon sightings

White-fronted Nunbird and Brown-capped Tyrannulet

Tiny Hawk

Semiplumbeous Hawk – a rare appearance in our area

Lineated Foliage-Gleaner in hiding at Las Abras

Pygmy-Owls in or near Turrialba

Spectacled Owl at Turrialba

Turrialba Volcano Slope -Quetzals and much more

Roseate Spoonbills at Angostura – a first for our area

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl at Aquiares

Blue-and-gold Tanager

Band-tailed Barbthroat at San Rafael de Santa Cruz

Harris’s Hawk

Angostura Pt. II – Baird’s Sandpiper

Shorebirds at Angostura

Lovely Cotinga

Barred Forest-Falcon at La Marta

Olive-striped Flycatcher on Turrialba Volcano road

Great birding at Las Brisas – Pt. 2