Red-legged honeycreeper, Pérez Zeledón, CR 🇨🇷. One of my favourite tanagers from our trip in February. 9.2.26 #birdingcostarica #birds

Golden-hooded tanager, Arenal, CR 🇨🇷 My favourite bird seen in Costa Rica, in four different locations. Always a thrill when one appeared. Incredible colours. This from 30.1.26 #birds #birdingcostarica

Mealy amazon, Tortuguero, CR 🇨🇷
Didn’t get many close views of this parrot species, but pleased when one was more interested in a having a low canopy meal than avoiding me. By the national park entrance, 3.2.2026 #birds #birdingcostarica

Crested caracara, Golfito CR 🇨🇷
Enjoyed watching this beauty dodging traffic on the Vía 245 to extract a basilisk corpse. 7.2.2026 #birds #birdingcostarica

Yellow-headed caracara, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 8.2.2026. Pair were kind enough to appear and pose whilst I was checking out random patches of water. #birds #birdingcostarica

Grey-lined hawk, Rio Tigre, Costa Rica 🇨🇷. Only one I saw on the trip, whilst checking below the bridge with the 245 near Puerto Jiménez. #birds #birdingcostarica

Scintillant hummingbird, 2200m at San Gerardo de Dota, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷. So many contrasts, best photo I could manage. 10.2.2026 #birds #birdingcostarica

Green kingfisher, San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷. Hunting a grey water drainage channel on the city outskirts, 11.2.2026. Undisturbed by large basilisk that appeared on next boulder. #birds #birdingcostarica

White-throated mountain-gem, San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
A few more new beautiful hummingbird species seen in the final 24 hours of our roadtrip, 10.2.2026. #birds #birdingcostarica

Black-cheeked woodpecker, Tortuguero, Costa Rica, in the rain. Four on the same tree, whilst I was busy photographing slaty-backed trogon in the village of San Francisco de Tortuguero. Vast nature reserve only accessible by boat. #birdingcostarica 🇨🇷 #birds

Slaty-tailed trogon, Tortuguero, Costa Rica. Two hour boat/hike in torrential rain up to Cerro Tortuguero, four of these beauties fighting with kiskadee back at the launch! #birdingcostarica #birds

Montezuma oropendola, Alajuela, CR
Finally some good views today after we’d driven around Lake Arenal to El Castillo. Stunning tail in flight too. #birdingcostarica #birds 29.01.26

Yellow-bellied Elaenia, Costa Rica 2025

A bird in it’s environment …

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My trip to Costa rica is nearly over some highlights from the last few days. #costarica #birdingcostarica #costaricabirds

A Great Kiskadee (small bird) attacks a Yellow-headed Caracara (a large predator bird) in Costa Rica, probably to protect its nest.

Little can take on big with enough guts and determination. Great Kiskadee has Yellow-headed Caracara backing off. A good lesson for our times? 🪶
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Did well for Antpittas in Costa Rica, a quintessentially neotropical family. Surprisingly, Streak-chested Antpitta came bounding in to a whistled imitation of its song but more typically Thicket Antpitta made us work a lot harder! #BirdingCostaRica

A day with two Tinamous is a good day. Pictured here, a relatively showy Great Tinamou and much more shy Slaty-breasted Tinamou, in La Selva. #BirdingCostaRica

Been up near the Nicaraguan border today for the eponymous Seed-finch and Grackle. The bill on the finch could give a Hawfinch a good battle! #BirdingCostaRica

Had cracking views of the rarely seen Lanceolated Monklet this morning at Arenal. Meant all the more after missing it on multiple previous trips to the neotropics. #BirdingCostaRica

Bare-shanked Screech-owl and Black-and-white Owl from a spot of nocturnal birding lately, the monochrome miscreant loitering outside my room, eating moths and bats all night. #BirdingCostaRica

Resplendant Quetzal before breakfast. If only every day could begin that way! #BirdingCostaRica

Local knowledge was very useful for seeing owl roosts which included Pacific Screech-owl and the huge Spectacled Owls. #BirdingCostaRica