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