
Category Archives: Rare birds
posts about rare sightings and life birds (first-time sightings)


Another unusual sighting: Cinnamon Becard at 1300 m in San Antonio de Santa Cruz

Elaenias around Turrialba

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
