Costa Rica bird list: Dec 10-23, 2012

Costa Rica relief map (shells, nuts, megalodon shark tooth fossil, palm leaf quetzal)

Laughing Falcon

Crested Caracara

Osprey

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Groove-billed Ani

Great-tailed Grackle

Baltimore Oriole

Melodious Blackbird

Montezuma Oropendola

Brown Jay

Blue Jay*

Loggerhead Shrike*

Common Bush Tanager

Blue-gray Tanager

Passerinni’s Tanager

Bay-headed Tanager

Clay-colored Robin (yigüirro)

Sooty Robin

Buff-throated Saltator

Blue Black Swallow

Black Swift

Kiskadee

Blue-black Grassquit

Yellow-faced Grassquit

Bananaquit

White-collared Seedeater

Buff-rumped Warbler

Golden-Browed Chlorophonia

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Black-striped Sparrow

Carolina Chickadee*

Masked Tityra

Pale-billed Woodpecker

Back-cheeked Woodpecker

Hoffman’s Woodpecker

Red-crowned Woodpecker (Hoffman’s hybrid)

Keel-billed Toucan

Chestnut-mandibled Toucan

Emerald Toucanet

Collared Araçari

Fiery-billed Araçari

Squirrel Cuckoo

Mangrove Cuckoo

Rufous Motmot

Blue-crowned Motmot

Mocking Bird*

Green Hermit

Violet Sabrewing

Coppery-headed Emerald

Purple-throated Mountain-gem
Green-crowned Brilliant

Green Thorntail

Muscovy Duck

Wood Duck*

Great Currasow

Black Guan

Crimson-fronted Parakeet

White-crowned Parrot

Resplendant QUETZAL!

Slate Throated Redstart

Cardinal*

Magnificent Frigatebird

Brown Pelican

Ringed Kingfisher

Green Kingfisher

House Wren

Rufous-naped Wren

Gray-breasted Wood Wren

Inca Dove

Ruddy Ground Dove

White-winged Dove

Rock Pigeon

White Ibis

Tricolored Heron

Little Blue Heron

Green Heron

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Great Blue Heron

Bare-throated Tiger Heron

Spotted Sandpiper

Wilson’s Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer*

Whimbrel

Willet

Ruddy Turnstone

Sanderling

Red Knot

Cattle Egret

Snowy Egret

Great Egret

Neotropic Cormorant

Anhinga

*actually, a few of these seen between the forests and the sprawl surrounding the George Bush International Airport in Houston (layover)

related: 2008 list