Category Archives: Rare birds

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

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

Slate-colored Grosbeak – life bird

Finca Tres Equis: First photos of a Blue-chested Hummingbird for Cartago Province

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