Costa Rica is as an excellent birding destination. This page features a few of the birds seen during multiple trips I have taken to Las Catalinas in April. While visitors in the winter months will undoubtedly see North American migrants, the birds featured here are year round Costa Ricans! The book includes many more bird species than shown on this webpage.
Anyone may download a free full version PDF download copy of my book, The Birds of Las Catalinas (see the section of this web page just below map to find the PDF download link). The print version is sold out.
The book sections are: (the links point to where I either birded or stayed)
- Introduction Maps and Birding Tools
- The Birds of Las Catalinas (link to town)
- Playa Potrero (link to beach)
- El Viejo Wetlands (link to Hacienda El Veijo)
- Rainforest Highlands (link to La Carolina Lodge)
This map helps one better understand the birding regions covered, and assumes you flew into Costa Rica via the airport in Liberia. The birds included in the Las Catalinas section are also found in most other areas of Guanacaste (map #2 is only found in the book). If you wish to learn more about Costa Rican bird species, or birds found anywhere in the world, Cornell University’s Ornithology Lab’s has a web service named: Birds of the World. The small monthly or annual fee is very worth the price.
The Birds of Las Catalinas (book version 2)
Download Form for the free PDF version of the book, “The Birds of Las Catalinas”. The form is very short and does not ask for any sensitive information … just your name and city. I am just curious from where my readership heralds.
Should you download the free pdf version of my book: The Birds of Las Catalinas, all images are copyrighted and you do NOT have permission to post the PDF to any other web site. Please link back here instead to 365DaysOfBirds.Com. The book is for your own private enjoyment. I am NOT selling printed copies of the book. Thank you.
Interested in children’s owl picture books? See the bottom of the page for information on how you may download those books … also without charge..
Below this point you will find a few of the birds featured in my book. If you desire more information about any of these bird species, Cornell’s Birds of the World is an excellent resource.
Las Catalinas Birds
Black-Headed Trogon
Great Kiskadee
Orange-Fronted Parakeet
Pale-Billed Woodpecker
Squirrel Cuckoo
Streak-Backed Oriole
Turquoise-Browed Mot Mot
White-Fronted Parrot
Playa Potrero Birds
Great Egret
Royal Tern and White Ibis
Tri-Colored Heron
El Viejo Wetlands Birds
Bare-Throated Tiger Heron
Black-Necked Stilt
Green Kingfisher
Ringed Kingfisher
Rainforest Highlands Birds
Collared Aracari (Toucan)
Crested Caracara (seen in a meadow adjoining the forest)
Green Honeycreeper
Streak-Backed Oriole
Yellow-Throated Euphonia
Yellow-Throated Toucan
Now that you have reached the bottom of the web page, I have one more treat which is free PDF copies of my children’s owl picture bird books. Titles include:
And finally a photograph of me, Rich Hoeg … having just hand captured / rescued a Snowy Owl in the northern Minnesota wilderness.