Global Big Day in Costa Rica, 2025 May 10th was the 10th edition of Global Big Day; a day where the celebration of birds is paramount. Although we could celebrate feathered life forms by raising glasses, baking cakes, or having bird call contests, those endeavors alone would not do them justice. Instead, us birders laud birds and give them due respect by […]
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May Birding Expectations from Costa Rica May isn’t considered prime time for birding in Costa Rica. If anything, the 5th month is when the fewest birders bring their binoculars to this land of quetzals and many vociferous wrens. Most have already made their visit during the previous months, the suggested, drier time for visiting Costa Rica. It is true that May […]
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Recent Highlights from Birding Costa Rica, Late April, 2025 The rains are happening in Costa Rica. It’s all good, expected, and the forests need it. The water is just getting started and it doesn’t affect birding all that much anyways. Head out early, it’ll probably be dry and the birds will be singing. If it stays cloudy, the birds will also stay active and […]
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Birding in Costa Rica- Recent Sightings of Interest In Costa Rica, we just finished another Holy Week. As banal as that may sound, those who reside in Costa Rica are well aware of the weight that statement carries. It means traffic is back in the Central Valley, that the beaches and ways to and from the coast have suddenly become much less crowded, […]
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Tips for Birding Costa Rica Around Carara During the past week, I had a long, fruitful day in the Carara area. No surprise there, that’s usually how the birding goes in that mega ecotone. While birding from Orotina to Tarcoles, near Villa Lapas, and on the Cerro Lodge entrance road, we identified 167 species. Check out the trip report! And no, we […]
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