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Essential Bird Photography
Overview
Costa Rica has excellent potential with regard to bird-watching tours, each year it prepares to receive thousands of bird watchers who visit it. And it is straightforward to understand why it is so striking, is because it has 850 species waiting to be observed and photographed, what a great destination to visit! Costa Rica is a small country but with a great variety of climates, this is what gives it its capacity to host so many birds. Exciting birding and quality lodges make this destination perfect for anyone who has yet to experience the exciting avifauna of Central America!
Tour Facts
Top Birds
Keel-billed and Yellow-throated toucans, Collared Aracari, Orange-chinned Parakeet, Brown-hooded, White-crowned, Yellow-napped and White-fronted Parrot, King Vulture, Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant, Great Curassow, White-fronted Nunbird, Rufous-winged, Cinnamon and Chestnut-colored Woodpeckers, Central American Pygmy-Owl, Great Green Macaw, Rufescent Tiger-Heron, Black-and-white, Crested and Spectacled Owls, Bare-throated Tiger-heron, Anhinga, Neotropic Cormorants, Great, Great Blue, Tricolored and Snowy Egrets, White, Green and Glossy Ibises, Nicaraguan Grackle, Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture, Jabiru, Yellow-breasted Crake, Montezuma Oropendola, Buff-throated Saltator, Red-legged Honeycreeper, Crimson-collared Tanager, Scarlet-rumped Tanager, Long-tailed Tyrant, White-fronted Nunbird, Keel-billed Motmot, White Hawk,White-tipped Sicklebill, Fiery-throated Hummingbird, Golden-browed Chlorophonia, Black-thighed Grosbeak, Large-footed Finch, Yellow-thighed Brushfinch, Slaty Flowerpiercer, Spangle-cheeked Tanager, Sooty-capped Chlorospingus, Sulfur-winged Parakeet, White-throated Mountain-Gem, Black-faced Solitaire, Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush, Sooty Thrush, Black-and-yellow and Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher, Resplendent Quetzal, Volcano Hummingbird, Talamanca Hummingbird, Lesser Violetear, Scarlet Macaw, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Roseate Spoonbill, Wood Stork, Common Black Hawk, Yellow-headed Caracara among others.
Top Mammals
The White-nosed Coati, Variegated Squirrel, Red-Tailed Squirrel, Alfaro's Pygmy Squirrel, Central American Agouti, and Mantled Howler Monkey.
Expected Climate
Can go from hot and dry to humid and cool.
Max Group Size
6 pax.
Photographic Opportunities
Very good
Habitats Covered
Northern Rainforest, Northern Wetlands, Arenal Volcano Area, Caribbean Rainforest, Talamanca Highlands, Central Pacific
Tour Pace & Walking
It has a medium difficulty with trails and some slightly awkward locations
Accommodation
Comfortable in very good hotels.
Ease of Birding
Moderate, with some tricky species
Price per Person
Double room: $2.801,44
Single room: $3.324,19
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