Central Colombia Bird List

We've seen over 430 species of birds along our route in Costa Rica (Hotel Bougainvillea, Carara National Park, Savegre Valley, and Rancho Naturalista), including the following. As usual, some are common, some less common, and some fairly rare. I've also included short lists of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians seen on past trips.

  • Little tinamou

  • Great tinamou

  • Black-bellied whistling-duck

  • Muscovy duck

  • Gray-headed chachalaca

  • Black guan

  • Crested guan

  • Spotted wood-quail

  • Marbled wood-quail

  • Short-billed pigeon

  • Red-billed pigeon

  • Pale-vented pigeon

  • Plain-breasted ground-dove

  • Gray-chested dove

  • Chiriqui quail-dove

  • Buff-fronted quail-dove

  • Ruddy quail-dove

  • Squirrel cuckoo

  • Striped cuckoo

  • Dusky nightjar

  • Common potoo

  • White-collared swift

  • Costa Rican swift

  • Stripe-throated hermit

  • Green hermit

  • Long-billed hermit

  • Bronzy hermit

  • White-necked jacobin

  • Green-breasted mango

  • Purple-crowned fairy

  • Crowned woodnymph

  • Scaly-breasted hummingbird

  • Rufous-tailed hummingbird

  • Fiery-throated hummingbird

  • Snowcap

  • Black-crested coquette

  • Mangrove hummingbird

  • Scintillant hummingbird

  • Volcano hummingbird

  • Green thorntail

  • Purple-throated mountain-gem

  • White-throated mountain-gem

  • Violet sabrewing

  • Bronze-tailed plumeleteer

  • Green-crowned brilliant

  • Blue-throated goldentail

  • Boat-billed heron

  • Bare-throated tiger-heron

  • Magnificent frigatebird

  • Northern jacana 

  • Sunbittern 

  • Southern lapwing

  • Collared plover

  • Franklin's gull

  • Laughing gull

  • Double-striped thick-knee

  • Gray-cowled wood-rail 

  • Russet-naped wood-rail

  • King vulture

  • Swallow-tailed kite

  • Hook-billed kite

  • Double-toothed kite

  • Plumbeous kite

  • Bicolored hawk

  • Crane hawk

  • White hawk

  • Great black hawk

  • Roadside hawk

  • Broad-winged hawk

  • Short-tailed hawk

  • Zone-tailed hawk

  • Black hawk-eagle

  • Ornate hawk-eagle

  • Spectacled owl

  • Costa Rican pygmy-owl

  • Ferruginous pygmy-owl

  • Mottled owl 

  • Black-and-white owl

  • Black-headed trogon

  • Garteredtrogon

  • Collared trogon

  • Slaty-tailed trogon

  • Baird’s trogon

  • Northern black-throated trogon

  • Resplendent quetzal

  • Turquoise-browed motmot

  • Lesson's (Blue-crowned) motmot

  • Rufous motmot

  • Broad-billed motmot

  • Ringed kingfisher

  • Amazon kingfisher

  • Green kingfisher

  • Rufous-tailed jacamar

  • White-whiskered puffbird

  • Fiery-billed aracari

  • Collared aracari

  • Keel-billed toucan

  • Yellow-throated toucan

  • Northern emerald toucanet

  • Black-cheeked woodpecker

  • Hoffman’s woodpecker

  • Golden-olive woodpecker

  • Rufous-winged woodpecker

  • Lineated woodpecker

  • Pale-billed woodpecker

  • Yellow-headed caracara

  • Crested caracara

  • Collared forest-falcon

  • Barred forest-falcon

  • Scarlet macaw

  • Crimson-fronted parakeet

  • Orange-fronted parakeet

  • Orange-chinned parakeet

  • Sulphur-winged parakeet

  • Barred parakeet

  • Brown-hooded parrot

  • White-crowned parrot

  • Red-lored parrot

  • Yellow-naped parrot

  • Mealy parrot

  • Plain xenops

  • Ruddy treerunner

  • Streak-chested treehunter

  • Buffy tuftedcheek

  • Spotted barbtail

  • Scaly-throated foliage-gleaner

  • Fawn (Buff)-throated foliage-gleaner 

  • Chiriqui foliage-gleaner

  • Lineated foliage-gleaner

  • Plain-brown woodcreeper

  • Olivaceous woodcreeper

  • Wedge-billed woodcreeper

  • Northern barred woodcreeper

  • Tawny-winged woodcreeper

  • Cocoa woodcreeper

  • Spotted woodcreeper

  • Streak-headed woodcreeperBrown-billed scythebill

  • Barred antshrike

  • Great antshrike

  • Black-hooded antshrike

  • Russet antshrike

  • Plain antvireo

  • Dot-winged antwren

  • White-flanked antwren

  • Checker-throated stipplethroat (antwren)

  • Slaty antwren

  • Dusky antbird

  • Chestnut-backed antbird

  • Dull-mantled antbird

  • Bicolored antbird

  • Spotted antbird 

  • Scaled antpitta 

  • Thicket antpitta

  • Greenish elaenia

  • Mountain elaenia

  • Yellow-bellied elaenia

  • Southern beardless-tyrannulet 

  • Mistletoe tyrannulet

  • Torrent tyrannulet

  • Yellow tyrannulet

  • Ochre-bellied flycatcher 

  • Northern bentbill

  • Slaty-capped flycatcher

  • Scale-crested pygmy-tyrant 

  • Tawny-chested flycatcher

  • Common tody-flycatcher

  • Slate-headed tody-flycatcher 

  • Yellow-olive flatbill (flycatcher)

  • Royal flycatcher

  • Sulphur-rumped flycatcher 

  • Ruddy-tailed flycatcher

  • Yellow-bellied flycatcher

  • Yellowish flycatcher

  • Black-capped flycatcher

  • Tropical pewee

  • Ochraceous pewee

  • Dark pewee

  • Tufted flycatcher 

  • Rufous mourner 

  • Piratic flycatcher 

  • Social flycatcher

  • Gray-capped flycatcher

  • Great kiskadee

  • Streaked flycatcher

  • Golden-bellied Flycatcher

  • Boat-billed flycatcher 

  • Tropical kingbird

  • Dusky-capped flycatcher

  • Panama flycatcher

  • Great crested flycatcher

  • Bright-rumped attila

  • Rufous piha

  • Masked tityra

  • Black-crowned tityra

  • Lovely cotinga

  • Red-capped manakin

  • Blue-crowned manakin

  • Orange-collared manakin

  • White-collared manakin

  • White-ruffed manakin

  • Long-tailed manakin

  • Gray-headed piprites

  • Cinnamon becard

  • White-winged becard

  • Rose-throated becard

  • Yellow-throated vireo

  • Yellow-green vireo

  • Brown-capped vireo

  • Yellow-winged vireo

  • Scrub greenlet

  • Lesser greenlet

  • Tawny-crowned greenlet

  • Green shrike-vireo

  • Rufous-browed peppershrike

  • Brown jay

  • White-throated magpie-jay

  • Gray-breasted martin

  • Blue-and-white swallow

  • Mangrove swallow

  • Band-backed wren

  • Rufous-backed wren 

  • Rufous-breasted wren 

  • Riverside wren

  • Cabanis' (Plain) wren

  • Rufous-and-white wren

  • Black-throated wren

  • Stripe-breasted wren 

  • House wren

  • Ochraceous wren 

  • Timberline wren

  • White-breasted wood-wren

  • Gray-breasted wood-wren

  • Long-billed gnatwren

  • White-browed (Tropical) gnatcatcher

  • Ruddy-capped nightingale-thrush

  • Black-billed nightingale-thrush

  • Swainson’s thrush

  • Wood thrush

  • Black-faced solitaire

  • Sooty thrush

  • Mountain thrush

  • Clay-colored thrush 

  • Long-tailed silky-flycatcher

  • Black-and-yellow silky-flycatcher

  • Ovenbird 

  • Worm-eating warbler

  • Northern waterthrush

  • Louisiana waterthrush 

  • Golden-winged warbler

  • Black-and-white warbler

  • Tropical parula

  • Flame-throated warbler

  • Hooded warbler 

  • Kentucky warbler 

  • Mourning warbler 

  • American redstart 

  • Yellow warbler 

  • Chestnut-sided warbler 

  • Magnolia warbler

  • Black-throated green warbler

  • Blackburnian warbler

  • Yellow-throated warbler 

  • Chestnut- (rufous) capped warbler

  • Golden-crowned warbler

  • Black-cheeked warbler

  • Canada warbler

  • Slate-throated redstart

  • Collared redstart

  • Buff-rumped warbler

  • Wrenthrush

  • Gray-headed tanager

  • White-shouldered tanager 

  • White-lined tanager

  • Crimson-collared tanager

  • Scarlet-rumped (Passerini's/Cherrie's) Tanager

  • Blue-gray tanager 

  • Palm tanager

  • Emerald tanager 

  • Speckled tanager

  • Spangle-cheeked tanager

  • Silver-throated tanager 

  • Bay-headed tanager 

  • Golden-hooded tanager

  • Blue dacnis 

  • Green honeycreeper 

  • Shining honeycreeper

  • Red-legged honeycreeper

  • Slaty flowerpiercer

  • Blue-black grassquit 

  • Morelet's (White-collared) seedeater

  • Variable seedeater 

  • Yellow-bellied seedeater 

  • Thick-billed seed-finch 

  • Yellow-faced grassquit 

  • Bananaquit

  • Buff-throated saltator

  • Cinnamon-bellied (Grayish) saltator 

  • Black-headed saltator 

  • White-naped brushfinch

  • Large-footed finch

  • Yellow-thighed brushfinch

  • Chestnut-capped brushfinch

  • Orange-billed sparrow

  • Black-striped sparrow

  • White-eared ground-sparrow

  • Rufous-collared sparrow 

  • Stripe-headed sparrow

  • Volcano junco

  • Common chlorospingus

  • Sooty-capped chlorospingus

  • Summer tanager 

  • Scarlet tanager 

  • Flame-colored tanager

  • White-winged tanager

  • Red-throated ant-tanager 

  • Carmiol's (Olive) tanager

  • Black-faced grosbeak 

  • Rose-breasted grosbeak 

  • Black-thighed grosbeak

  • Blue-black grosbeak 

  • Blue grosbeak

  • Eastern meadowlark 

  • Melodious blackbird 

  • Great-tailed grackle 

  • Bronzed cowbird 

  • Giant cowbird 

  • Orchard oriole

  • Black-cowled oriole 

  • Baltimore oriole

  • Yellow-billed cacique

  • Scarlet-rumped cacique 

  • Montezuma oropendola

  • Chestnut-headed oropendola

  • Yellow-crowned euphonia

  • Spot-crowned euphonia

  • Scrub euphonia 

  • Yellow-throated euphonia 

  • Olive-backed euphonia 

  • Tawny-capped euphonia

  • Golden-browed chlorophonia 

Mammals

  • Nine-banded armadillo

  • Brown-throated three-toed sloth

  • Hoffman's two-toed sloth

  • Northern ghost bat

  • Long-nosed bat

  • White-lined sac-winged bat

  • Common long-tongued bat

  • Geoffrey's spider monkey

  • Mantled howler monkey

  • White-throated capuchin monkey

  • Mexican dwarf hairy porcupine

  • Red-tailed squirrel

  • Variegated squirrel

  • Central American agouti 

  • Northern raccoon

  • White-nosed coati

  • Kinkajou

  • Tayra

  • Central American red brocket

  • Striped hognosed skunk

Reptiles and Amphibians

  • American crocodile

  • Green iguana

  • Spiny-tailed iguana

  • Emerald basilisk

  • Common basilisk

  • Striped basilisk

  • Green spiny lizard

  • Central American ameiva

  • Reticulated ameiva

  • Plain brown anole

  • Dry forest anole

  • Common slider

  • Rosenberg's tree frog

  • Masked treefrog

  • Red-eyed leaf frog

  • Strawberry poison frog

  • Green-and-black poison frog

  • Savage's bullfrog

  • Cane toad

  • Northern cat-eyed snake