Birds in Manuel Antonio and Quepos, Costa Rica
This page has a list of 224 birds found in this area.+ This symbol indicates important birds for environmental education or guiding.
* This symbol indicates birds also found in the book "Site Guides Costa Rica" by Dennis Rogers.
@ This symbol indicates birds listed by the professor of ornithology of the University of Southern California, on an informal list made in November 1997;
@beachhouse indicates birds on that list seen from the balcony of our beachhouse rental in Manuel Antonio.
| Imp. | English | Spanish | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| + | Great Tinamou | Tinamu grande | |
| Little Tinamou | Tinamu chico | Common | |
| Least Grebe | Zambullidor enano | Common | |
| @beachhouse | Brown pelican | Pelicano pardo | Abundant |
| @beachhouse | Roseate Spoonbill | Rare | |
| +* | Brown Booby | Piquero moreno | Abundant |
| @ | Neotropic cormorant | Corvejon | (Olivaceous cormorant) |
| @ | Woodstork | Cigueñon | Uncommon |
| @ | Franklin's Gull | ||
| @beachhouse | Magnificent frigatebird | Fregata | Abundant |
| @beachhouse | Great egret | Garceta grande | |
| @beachhouse | Snowy egret | Garceta patiamarilla | |
| @ | Green heron | Garcilla verde | |
| +@ | Cattle egret | Garcilla bueyera | Abundant |
| @ | Yellow-crowned night heron | Martinete coroninegro | Common |
| Bare-throated tiger heron | Garza tigre cuellinuda | ||
| + | Boat-billed heron | Pico cuchara o cucharon | |
| @ | Tricolor heron | Garceta tricolor | Uncommon |
| + | White Ibis | Ibis blanco | |
| Masked duck | Pato enmascarado | ||
| +@beachhouse | Black vulture | Zopilote negro | Abundant |
| @ | Turkey vulture | Zopilote cabecirrojo | |
| @beachhouse | Gray hawk | Gavilan gris | |
| *@beachhouse | Broadwinged hawk | Common | |
| * | Roadside hawk | Common | |
| White hawk | Gavilan blanco | ||
| Common black-hawk | Gavilan cangrejero | ||
| *@beachhouse | Yellow-headed Caracara | ||
| @ | Crested Caracara | Caracara cargahuesos | |
| @ | Osprey | Aguila pescadora | |
| @beachhouse | Laughing falcon | Guaco | |
| Collared forest-falcon | Halcon | ||
| Barred forest-falcon | Halcon | ||
| Great curassow | Pavon grande | ||
| +@beachhouse | Gray-headed chachalaca | Chachalaca cabecigris | Common |
| Marbled woodquail | Codorniz cocorovado | ||
| * | Gray-necked woodrail | Rascon cuelligris | Common |
| +@ | Northern jacana | Jacana centroamericana | Common |
| American oystercatcher | Ostrero americano | ||
| @ | Black-bellied plover | Chorlito gris | Common |
| Semipalmated plover | Chorlitejo semipalmado | Common | |
| Collared plover | Chorlitejo colirejo | ||
| Thick-billed plover | Chorlitejo piquigrueso | ||
| Solitary sandpiper | Andarrios solitario | ||
| @beachhouse | Spotted sandpiper | Andarrios maculado | Abundant |
| @beachhouse | Willet | Piguilo o Playero Aliblanco | Common |
| Ruddy turnstone | Vuelvapiedras rojizo | ||
| Least sandpiper | Correlimos menudillo | Common | |
| Pectoral sandpiper | Correlomos pechirayado | ||
| Semipalmated sandpiper | Correlimos semipalmado | Common | |
| Western sandpiper | Correlimos occidental | Abundant | |
| Sanderling | Playero arenero | Common | |
| @ | Whimbrel | Zarapito trinador | Common |
| Long-billed dowitcher | Agujeta silbona | ||
| * | Laughing gull | Gaviota reidora | Common |
| * | Sandwitch tern | Common | |
| * | Royal tern | Common | |
| Mangrove cuckoo | Cuclillo de anfifar | ||
| @beachhouse | Squirrel cuckoo | Cuco ardilla | Common |
| +@beachhouse | Groove-billed ani | Garrapatero tijo | Common |
| * | Smooth-billed ani | Common | |
| Striped cuckoo | Cuchillo listado | Common | |
| Barn owl | Luchuza ratonera | Common | |
| Crested owl | Buho penachudo | ||
| Spectacled owl | Buho de anteojos | ||
| +*@beachhouse | Pauraque | Chotacabras campestre | Common |
| @beachhouse | White collard swift | Vencejon collarejo | Common |
| @beachhouse | Chestnut collared swift | Vencejo cuellicastaño | |
| @beachhouse | Chimney swift | Vencejo de paso | Spring and fall |
| * | Vaux's swift | Common | |
| Black skimmer | Rayador negro | ||
| Red-billed pidgeon | Paloma piquirroja | ||
| * | Pale vented pigeon | Paloma colorada | Abundant |
| @beachhouse | Short-billed pigeon | Paloma piquicorta | |
| Inca dove | Tortolita colilarga | ||
| Common ground-dove | Tortolita comun | ||
| @beachhouse | Ruddy ground-dove | Tortolita rojiza | Abundant |
| * | Blue ground-dove | Tortolita azulada | Common |
| * | White-tipped dove | Paloma coliblanca | Abundant |
| Gray-chested dove | Paloma pechigris | Abundant | |
| * | Orange-fronted parakeet | Perico frentirrojo | |
| @beachhouse | Orange-chinned parakeet | Periquito barianaranjada | Abundant |
| *@beachhouse | White-crowned parrot | Loro coroniblanco | Common |
| * | Rod-lored Amazon parrot | Loro frentirrojo | |
| Yellow-headed amazon parrot | Loro nuquigualdo | ||
| Band-tailed barbthroat | Eritano bronceado | Common | |
| *@beachhouse | Little hermit | Ermitano enano | Common |
| @beachhouse | Longtailed hermit | Ermitaño colilargo | |
| *@beachhouse | Blue-throated goldentail | Colibri colidorado | Common |
| *@beachhouse | Rufous-tailed hummingbird | Colibri rabirruto | Common |
| *@beachhouse | Purple-crowned fairy | Colibri airoso | Common |
| @beachhouse | Crowned woodnymph | Ninfa violeta y verde | |
| Slaty-tailed trogon | Trogon ojoblanco | Common | |
| Belted kingfisher | Martin pescador norteno | Common | |
| *@ | Ringed kingfisher | Common | |
| *@ | Green kingfisher | Martin pescador verde | Common |
| Pygmy kingfisher | Martin pescador pigmeo | ||
| @beachhouse | Blue-crowned motmot | Momoto comun o de diadena azul | Common |
| White-whiskered puffbird | Buco barbon | ||
| +@beachhouse | Fiery-billed aracari | Tucancillo piquianaranjado | Common |
| Chestnut-mandibled toucan | Tucan pico bicolor o Dios-te-de | Common | |
| Olivaceous piculet | Carpinterito olivaceo | ||
| *@beachhouse | Golden-naped woodpecker | Carpintero nuguidorado | Common |
| *@beachhouse | Red-crowned woodpecker | Common | |
| * | Tawny-winged woodcreeper | Trepador alirufo | |
| Ruddy woodcreeper | Trepador rojizo | ||
| Buff-throated woodcreeper | Trepador cuellianteado | Common | |
| Black-striped woodcreeper | Trepador pinto | ||
| *@beachhouse | Streak-headed woodcreeper | Trepador cabecirayado | Common |
| Slaty spinetail | Arquitecto plomizo | ||
| Buff-throated foliage-gleaner | Hojarrasquero cuellianteado | ||
| Streaked xenops | Xenops rayado | ||
| Scaly-throated leaftosser | Triajojas barbiescamado | ||
| Great antshrike | Batara mayor | ||
| @beachhouse | Barred antshrike | Batara listado | |
| *@beachhouse | Black-hooded antshrike | Batara negruzco | Abundant |
| Russet antshrike | Batara cafe | ||
| White-flanked antwren | Hormiguerito flanquiblanco | ||
| Bare-crowned antbird | Homiguero calvo | ||
| * | Chestnut-backed antbird | Hormiguero dorsicastano | Abundant |
| Bicolored antbird | Hormiguero bicolor | ||
| Blue-crowned manakin | Saltarin coroniceleste | ||
| * | Red-capped manakin | Saltarin cabecirrojo | Common |
| Orange-collared manakin | Saltarin cuellinaranjado | Common | |
| Torquoise cotinga | Cotinga torquesa | ||
| Yellow-billed cotinga | Cotinga piquiamarillo | ||
| Bright-rumped attila | Atila polimorfa | ||
| Rufos hiha | Pija rojiza | ||
| * | White-winged becard | Cabezon aliblanco | |
| Masked tityra | Tityra cariroja | Common | |
| @beachhouse | Black-crowned tityra | Tityra coroninegra | |
| @beachhouse | Scissor-tailed flycatcher | Tirano-tijereta rosada | |
| @beachhouse | Tropical kingbird | Tirano tropical | Abundant |
| @beachhouse | Tropical pewee | Pibi tropical | |
| White-ringed flycatcher | Mosquero cabecianillado | ||
| @beachhouse | Social flycatcher | Mosquero cejiblanco | Common |
| + | Gray-capped flycatcher | Mosquero cabecigris | Common |
| @beachhouse | Great kiskadee | Bienteveo grande | Common |
| *@beachhouse | Great crested flycatcher | Common | |
| @beachhouse | Boat-billed flycatcher | Mosqueron picudo | Common |
| Ruddy-tailed flycatcher | Mosquerito colirrufo | ||
| Black-tailed flycatcher | Mosquerito colinegro | ||
| Northern royal-flycatcher | Mosquero real norteno | ||
| + | Common tody-flycatcher | Espatulilla comun | Common |
| Norther bentbill | Piquitorcido norteno | ||
| Yellow tyrannulet | Mosquerito amarillo | ||
| Yellow-bellied elaenia | Elaenia vientriamarillo | Common | |
| *@beachhouse | Southern beardless tyrannulet | Mosquerito silbador | |
| Yellow-bellied tyrannulet | Mosquerito cejiblanco | ||
| @beachhouse | Ochre-bellied flycatcher | Mosquerito aceitunado | Common |
| Gray-breasted martin | Martin pechigris | Common | |
| @beachhouse | Cliff swallow | Golondrina risquera | |
| *@beachhouse | Southern roughwing swallow | Golondrina alirrasposa sureno | Common |
| @beachhouse | Barn swallow | Golondrina tijereta | |
| Bank swallow | Golondrina riberena | Common | |
| Mangrove swallow | Golondrina lomiblanca | Common | |
| * | Plain wren | Soterrey chinchirigui | Common |
| *@beachhouse | Riverside wren | Soterrey pechiondeado | Common |
| Southern house-wren | Soterrey cucarachero | ||
| White-breasted wood-wren | Soterrey de selva pechiblanco | ||
| @beachhouse | Veery | Zorzal dorsirrojizo | spring and fall (Rare) |
| @beachhouse | Brown jay | Urraca parda | |
| @beachhouse | Clay-colored robin | Mirlo pardo | Common |
| Pale-vented robin | Mirlo culiblanco | ||
| @beachhouse | Yellow throated vireo | Vireo pechiamarillo | |
| *@beachhouse | Tennessee warbler | Reinita verdilla | Common |
| Yellow warbler | Reinita amarilla | Common fall to spring | |
| * | Chestnut-sided warbler | Reinita de costilla castana | Common fall to spring |
| @beachhouse | Worm eating warbler | Reinita gusanera | Fall to spring |
| Oven bird | Reinita hornera | ||
| Northern waterthrush | Reinita acuatica norena | Common fall to spring | |
| American redstart | Candelita nortena | ||
| Buff-rumped warbler | Reinita guariribera | ||
| + | Scarlet-rumped cacique | Cacique limiescarlata | Common |
| Tropical gnatcatcher | Pertila tropical | ||
| * | Long-billed gnat-wren | Soterillo caricafe | Common |
| * | Lesser greenlet | Common | |
| Red-eyed vireo | Vireo ojirojo | Common | |
| Yellow-green vireo | Vireo cabecigris | Common | |
| *@beachhouse | Bananaquit | Reinita mielera | Common |
| * | Kentucky warbler | Common | |
| Green honeycreeper | Mielero verde | ||
| *@beachhouse | Red-legged honeycreeper | Mielero patirrojo | Common |
| @beachhouse | Shining honeycreeper | Mielero luciente | |
| Black-and-white warbler | Reinita trepador | ||
| * | Prothonotary warbler | Reinita cabecidorada | |
| Nicaraguan grackle | Clarinero nicaraguense | ||
| @beachhouse | Great tailed gracke | Clarinero | |
| *@beachhouse | Northern oriole | Bolsero veranero | Common fall to spring |
| * | Eastern meadowlark | Common | |
| Spot-crowned euphonia | Eufonia vientrerrojiza | ||
| @beachhouse | Thick billed euphonia | Eufonia piquigruesa | |
| *@beachhouse | Yellow-crowned euphonia | Common | |
| @beachhouse | Blue Dachnis | ||
| @beachhouse | Scarlet-thighed Dachnis | ||
| +*@beachhouse | Golden-hooded tanager | Tangara capuchidorada | Common |
| Bay-headed tanager | Tangara azuleja | ||
| @beachhouse | Blue-gray tanager | Tangara azuleja | Abundant |
| +@beachhouse | Palm tanager | Tangara palmera | Abundant |
| +@beachhouse | Scarlet-rumped tanager | Tangara lomiescarlata | Abundant |
| * | Summer tanager | Tangara veranera | |
| White-winged tanager | Tangara aliblanca | ||
| Red-crowned ant-tanager | Tangara hormiguera coronirroja | ||
| * | Buff-throated Saltator | Common | |
| @beachhouse | Rose-breasted grosbeak | Piquigrueso pechirosado | Common |
| * | Blue-black grosbeak | Piquigrueso negro azulado | Common |
| Yellow-faced grassquit | Semillerito cariamarillo | Common | |
| * | White-collared seedeater | Espiguero collajero | Abundant |
| +*@beachhouse | Variable seedeater | Espiguero variable | Abundant |
| Blue-black grassquit | Semillerito negro azulado | Abundant | |
| Yellow-thighed finch | Fringilo de muslos amarillos | ||
| * | Orange-billed sparrow | Piquianaranjado | Common |
| * | Black-striped sparrow | Pinzon cabecilistado | Common |
| * | House sparrow | Common |
Excellent book - If you're birding in Costa Rica you should get a copy.