A Good Time for Birding the Southern Caribbean in Costa Rica October isn’t the most popular month for visiting Costa Rica but, as far as us local birders are concerned, pumpkin season is the best month for birding. Yes, we are deep in the heart of the wet season and yes, it rains a heck of a lot (especially this year) but, you know where the […]
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The Most Biodiverse Areas for Birds in Costa Rica Planning a birding trip to Costa Rica? You might be wondering which are the most biodiverse areas for birds. It’s a fairly common question and a good one. After all, what birder wants to go to the least biodiverse areas for birds? That high avian diversity is one of the main reasons birders visit Costa […]
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A New and Unexpected Bird for Costa Rica How many birds can you see in Costa Rica? A couple hundred? Yes and a lot more. As with birding anywhere, your final Costa Rica tally depends on where you go birding, how often you go birding, the number of birding days, and how you carry out the avian observing endeavor (like, if you just […]
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Southern Pacific Costa Rica Birding Tour- Top 10 Birds The bird list for Costa Rica is quickly approaching 950 species. Imagine that number of birds in Wales. How about West Virginia? Yeah, that many species on a bird list for such a small area! How does Costa Rica do it? What’s going on to turn up so many bird species? Costa Rica owes its […]
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November-December Costa Rica Birding News It’s getting cold out there! Not so much in Costa Rica even if some local folks beg to differ. It’s the end of November, creeping into early December and I recall times of preliminary cold, days of playing football with friends in brisk, pre-winter weather, watching the flakes come down accompanied by Thanksgiving parades and […]
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