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Sunrise Birding LLC - Birding and Wildlife Tours COSTA RICA
Toucans & Tanagers
March 21 - 28, 2025

Leader: Jose Pablo Castillo
Driver: Ramon Vargas
With help from Gina Nichol & Steve Bird

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Golden-hooded Tanager. Photo © Gina Nichol

HIGHLIGHTS: (scroll down for photos)
  • Central American Pygmy Owl
  • The King Vulture show
  • Spot-breasted Oriole
  • Marbled Wood Quail
  • Orange-collared Manakin
  • Mangrove Hummingbird - best views ever
  • White-throated Crakes in the open
  • Turquoise-browed Motmot spotted by Julie
  • Frogging!
  • Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frog
  • Monkeys!
  • The Battle of the Scarlet Macaws and Collared Forest Falcon
  • The stunningly colored Tanagers
  • Moths
  • Great Green Macaw
  • White-collared Manakin dance
  • Striped Owl with a chick
  • Bright-rumped Atilla up close
  • Visiting The Nest Nature Center
  • Watching the Toucans up close
  • Watching the Stripe-breasted Wrens making a nest
  • Seeing raptor migration in real time (Broad-winged Hawks)
  • The fabulous group –
    the laughs, the fun, the energy, and the appreciation of everything we saw
  • The delicious food
  • Steve’s jokes
  • Jose’s brilliance
  • Ramon’s driving and spotting the birds
  • All of the little extras

Contact [email protected] for information on future tours.

WOW! Central American Pygmy Owl at point blank range. Photo © Gina Nichol
WOW! Central American Pygmy Owl at point blank range. Photo © Gina Nichol

The endangered, endemic Mangrove Hummingbird in Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol
The endangered, endemic Mangrove Hummingbird in Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol

Blue-and-gold Tanager, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol
Blue-and-gold Tanager, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol

Boat-billed Heron, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol
Boat-billed Heron, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol

Silver-throated Tanager, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol
Silver-throated Tanager, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol

White-throated Crake. Photo © Gina Nichol
White-throated Crake. Photo © Gina Nichol

Bare-throated Tiger Heron. Photo © Steve Bird
Bare-throated Tiger Heron. Photo © Steve Bird

Collared Aracari, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol
Collared Aracari, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol

Emerald Toucanet, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol
Emerald Toucanet, Costa Rica. Photo © Gina Nichol

Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Costa Rica. Photo © Steve Bird
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Costa Rica. Photo © Steve Bird

Mantled Howler Monkey © Julie Blum
Mantled Howler Monkey © Julie Blum

Keel-billed Toucan, Costa Rica © Gina Nichol
Keel-billed Toucan, Costa Rica © Gina Nichol

King Vulture, Costa Rica © Gina Nichol
King Vulture, Costa Rica © Gina Nichol

Red-eyed Tree Frog, Costa Rica © Steve Bird
Red-eyed Tree Frog, Costa Rica © Steve Bird

Yellow-throated Toucan, Costa Rica © Steve Bird
Yellow-throated Toucan, Costa Rica © Steve Bird

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Fantastic group at The Nest Nature Center with their staff and the people from the Woman's Cooperative that served us lunch! Fantastic group at The Nest Nature Center with their staff and the people from the Woman's Cooperative that served us lunch!

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