Birds
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Costa Rica's favourite avian, the humming bird.
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Birds are one of Costa Rica's biggest wildlife attractions but the rarer species will not be seen without powerful binoculars and a good guide spotting for you. As any true twitcher knows you'll need a vast lens [400mm+ with image stabiliser] to catch any decent pictures of our nervous feathered friends, though the country plays host to hundreds of unusual birds.
And bugbog's favourite bird, the loony Toucan.
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Some of the best wildlife parks for birds are:
La Selva Biological Station on
the Northern Plains [excellent for amateurs]; the ever-popular Monteverde Cloud Forest on the
Northern Plains [400 species including quetzals, emerald toucanets,
blue-crowned motmots]; Palo Verde,
NW Costa Rica mostly for 279 species of water birds [best
Sept-March]; Carara in the Central
Pacific zone [scarlet macaws, boat-billed herons, trogons]; Cerro de la Muerte in the South
Pacific zone [especially good for quetzal sightings] and of
course the distant but still untamed Corcovado,
also South Pacific, with its large population of scarlet macaws.
A blue-crowned motmot.
A very rare and distant quetzal sighting with a too-short lens. On a good quality one week bird watching tour you may expect to see around 300 species.
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