Costa Rica II Bird List
We've seen over 375 species of birds along this route in Costa Rica (Selva Verde Lodge, Cano Negro, Arenal Observatory Lodge and Virgen del Socorro), 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.
Little tinamou
Great tinamou
Black-bellied whistling-duck
Muscovy duck
Gray-headed chachalaca
Crested guan
Great curassow
Squirrel cuckoo
Groove-billed ani
Red-billed pigeon
Pale-vented pigeon
Short-billed pigeon
Blue ground-dove
Gray-headed dove
Gray-chested dove
Olive-backed quail dove
Buff-fronted quail-dove
Great potoo
Common pauraque
Lesser nighthawk
Gray-rumped swift
White-collared swift
Stripe-throated hermit
Green hermit
Long-billed hermit
Bronzy hermit
White-tipped sicklebill
White-necked jacobin
Brown violetear
Green-breasted mango
Purple-crowned fairy
Crowned woodnymph
Scaly-breasted hummingbird
Rufous-tailed hummingbird
Black-crested coquette
Green thorntail
Violet sabrewing
Bronze-tailed plumeleteer
Green-crowned brilliant
Blue-throated goldentail
Blue-chested hummingbird
Boat-billed heron
Bare-throated tiger-heron
Fasciated tiger-heron
Pinnated bittern
Least bittern
Green ibis
Jabiru
Wood stork
Northern jacana
Sunbittern
Uniform crake
Yellow-breasted crake
Purple gallinule
Sungrebe
Russet-naped wood-rail
Collared plover
Southern lapwing
Swallow-tailed kite
Hook-billed kite
Barred hawk
White hawk
Crane hawk
Black-collared hawk
Great black hawk
Roadside hawk
Broad-winged hawk
Short-tailed hawk
Ornate hawk-eagle
King vulture
Lesser yellow-headed vulture
Pacific screech-owl
Black-and-white owl
Mottled owl
Striped owl
Spectacled owl
Crested owl
Ferruginous pygmy-owl
Central American pygmy-owl
Black-headed trogon
Garteredtrogon
Collared trogon
Slaty-tailed trogon
Northern Black-throated trogon
Lattice-tailed trogon
Rufous motmot
Broad-billed motmot
Lesson's motmot
Ringed kingfisher
Amazon kingfisher
Green kingfisher
American pygmy kingfisher
Rufous-tailed jacamar
White-necked puffbird
White-fronted nunbird
Collared aracari
Yellow-eared toucanet
Keel-billed toucan
Yellow-throated toucan
Northern emerald toucanet
Prong-billed barbet
Red-headed barbet
Black-cheeked woodpecker
Hoffman’s woodpecker
Golden-olive woodpecker
Rufous-winged woodpecker
Olivaceous piculet
Cinnamon woodpecker
Chestnut-colored woodpecker
Lineated woodpecker
Pale-billed woodpecker
Laughing falcon
Collared forest-falcon
Scarlet macaw
Great green macaw
Crimson-fronted parakeet
Olive-throated parakeet
Mealy parrot
Red-lored parrot
White-fronted parrot
White-crowned parrot
Blue-headed parrot
Brown-hooded parrot
Fasciated antshrike
Barred antshrike
Great antshrike
Black-crowned antshrike
Russet antshrike
Streak-crowned 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
Bare-crowned antbird
Ocellated antbird
Streak-chested antpitta
Thicket antpitta
Plain xenops
Fawn (Buff)-throated foliage-gleaner
Buff-fronted foliage-gleaner
Lineated foliage-gleaner
Plain-brown woodcreeper
Olivaceous woodcreeper
Wedge-billed woodcreeper
Cocoa woodcreeper
Spotted woodcreeper
Streak-headed woodcreeper Piratic flycatcher
Social flycatcher
Gray-capped flycatcher
Great kiskadee
Boat-billed flycatcher
Tropical kingbird
Dusky-capped flycatcher
Great-crested Flycatcher
Bright-rumped attila
Snowy cotinga
Masked tityra
Black-crowned tityra
Red-capped manakin
White-collared manakin
White-ruffed manakin
Cinnamon becard
White-winged becard
Yellow-throated vireo
Lesser greenlet
Green shrike-vireo
Brown jay
Gray-breasted martin
Blue-and-white swallow
Mangrove swallow
Band-backed wren
Rufous-backed wren
Nightingale wren
Canebrake wren
Cabanis' wren
Spot-breasted wren
Black-throated wren
Stripe-breasted wren
Bay wren
Song wrenWhite-breasted wood-wren
Gray-breasted wood-wren
Long-billed gnatwren
Tawny-faced gnatwren
White-browed gnatcatcher
Black-headed nightingale-thrush
Swainson’s thrush
Wood thrush
Clay-colored thrush
Black-and-yellow tanager
Tawny-crested tanager
White-throated shrike-tanager
Crimson-collared tanager
Scarlet-rumped (Passerini's) tanager
Blue-gray tanager
Palm tanager
Emerald tanager
Speckled tanager
Spangle-cheeked tanager
Silver-throated tanager
Bay-headed tanager
Rufous-winged tanager
Golden-hooded tanager
Plain-colored tanager
Blue dacnis
Scarlet-thighed dacnis
Green honeycreeper
Shining honeycreeper
Red-legged honeycreeper
Morelet's (White-collared) seedeater
Variable seedeater
Yellow-bellied seedeater
Thick-billed seed-finch
Nicaraguan seed-finch
Yellow-faced grassquit
Bananaquit
Buff-throated saltator
Cinnamon-bellied saltator
Black-headed saltator
White-naped brushfinch
Chestnut-capped brushfinch
Orange-billed sparrow
Black-striped sparrow
Rufous-collared sparrow
Common chlorospingus
Sooty-faced finch
Summer tanager
Scarlet tanager
Red-throated ant-tanager
Carmiol's (Olive) tanager
Black-faced grosbeak
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Blue-black grosbeak
Black-thighed grosbeak
Northern waterthrush
Golden-winged warbler
Black-and-white warbler
Tennessee warbler
Olive-crowned yellowthroat
Tropical parula
Kentucky warbler
Mourning warbler
American redstart
Yellow warbler
Chestnut-sided warbler
Magnolia warbler
Black-throated green warbler
Blackburnian warbler
Chestnut-capped warbler
Golden-crowned warbler
Canada warbler
Slate-throated redstart
Buff-rumped warbler
Montezuma oropendula
Chestnut-headed oropendula
Yellow-billed cacique
Scarlet-rumped cacique
Nicaraguan grackle
Shiny cowbird
Black-cowled oriole
White-vented euphonia
Olive-backed euphonia
Yellow-crowned euphonia
Tawny-capped euphonia
Mammals
Common opossum
Nine-banded armadillo
Northern tamandua
Silky anteater
Brown-throated three-toed sloth
Hoffman's two-toed sloth
Honduran white bat
Pygmy round-eared bat
Vampire bat
Long-nosed bat
White-lined sac-winged bat
Geoffrey's spider monkey
Mantled howler monkey
White-throated capuchin monkey
Red-tailed squirrel
Variegated squirrel
Central American agouti
Brazilian rabbit
Northern raccoon
White-nosed coati
Kinkajou
White-tailed deer
Reptiles and Amphibians
Spectacled caiman
Emerald basilisk
Helmeted basilisk
Brown Basilisk
Central American whiptail
Black river turtle
Common slider
White-lipped mud turtle
Red-eyed leaf frog
Jumping leaf frog
Strawberry poison frog
Green-and-black poison frog
Savage's bullfrog
Masked treefrog
Wet forest toad
Eyelash pit viper
Northern cat-eyed snake