Costa Rica 2019 Wildlife
| Central American Spider Monkey | Aleles geoffroyi |
| Greater Sack-winged bat | Saccopteryx bilineata |
| Hoffman’s Two Toed Sloth | Choleopus hoffmanii |
| Long-nosed Bats | Rhynconicteris naso |
| Mantled Howler Monkey | Alouatta palliata |
| Northern Tamandua Anteater * | Tamandua mexicana |
| Variegated Squirrel | Sciurus variegatoides |
| White Sack-winged bat | Saccopteryx bilineata |
| White-faced Capuchin | Cebus capucinus |
| White-nosed Coati | Nasua narica |
| White-tailed Deer | Odocoileus virginianus |
| Reptiles and Amphibians | |
| American Crocodile | Caiman acutus |
| Boa | Boa constrictor |
| Central American Ameiva | Ameiva festiva |
| Common Basilisk (Geko) | Basiliscus basiliscus |
| Emerald Basilisk | Basiliscus plumifrons |
| Eyelash Pit-Viper | Bothrreichis schlegelii |
| Green Iguana | Iguana iguana |
| Nicaraguan Slider Turtle | Trachemis emolii (scripta) |
| Spectacled Caiman | Caiman crocodilus |
| Spiny-tailed Iguana * | Ctenosaura similis |
| Strawberry poison-dart Frog | Oophaga pumilio |
| Birds | |
| Acorn Woodpecker | Melanerpes formicivorus |
| Amazon Kingfisher | Chloroceryle amazona |
| American Dipper | Cinclus mexicanus |
| American Redstart * | Setophaga ruticilla |
| Anhinga | Anhinga anhinga |
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula |
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola |
| Bare-throated Tiger-Heron | Tigrisoma mexicanum |
| Barn Swallow * | Hirundo rustica |
| Barred Becard | Pachyramphus versicolor |
| Belted Kingfisher * | Megaceryle alcyon |
| Black and White Warbler | Mniotilta varia |
| Black Guan | Chamaepetes unicoloor |
| Black Phoebe * | Sayornis nigricans |
| Black Vulture | Coragyps atratus |
| Black-bellied Hummingbird | Eupherusa nigriventris |
| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax |
| Black-faced Solitaire | Myadestes melanops |
| Black-headed Trogon | Trogon melanocephalus |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens |
| Black-throated Trogon * | Trogon rufus |
| Blue-and-white Swallow * | Pygochelidon cyanoleuca |
| Blue-black Grassquit * | Volatinia jacarina |
| Blue-gray Tanager | Thraupis episcopus |
| Boat-billed Heron | Cochlearius cochlearius |
| Broad-billed Motmot | Electron platyrhynchum |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster |
| Brown Pelican | Pelicanus occidentalis |
| Buff-throated Saltator | Saltator maximus. |
| Buffy Tuftedcheek * | Pseudocolaptes laurencii |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | Setophaga pensylvanica |
| Clay-colored Thrush | Turdus grayi |
| Collared Redstart * | Myioborus torquatus |
| Collared Trogon * | Trogon collaris |
| Common Black Hawk | Buteogallus anthracinus |
| Common Chlorospingus | Chlorospingus flavopectus |
| Common Tody-Flycatcher | Todirostrum cinereum |
| Coppery-headed Emerald | Elvira cupreiceps |
| Costa Rican Pygmy Owl | Glaucidium costaricanum |
| Costa Rican Swift | Chaetura fumosa |
| Creen-crowned Brilliant | Heliodoxajacula |
| Crested Caracara | Caracara chenway |
| Crested Guan | Penelope purpurascens |
| Crowned Woodnymph | Thalurania columbica |
| Dark Pewee * | Contopus lugubris |
| Fiery-billed Aracari | Pteroglossus frantzii |
| Fiery-throated Hummingbird | Panterpe insignis |
| Flame-colored Tanager | Piranga bidentata |
| Flame-throated Warbler * | Oreothlypis gutturalis |
| Golden-browed Chlorophonia | Chlorophonia cailophrys |
| Golden-hooded Tanager * | Tangara larvata |
| Gray-breased Martin | Progne chalybea |
| Gray-breasted Wood Wren * | Henicorhina leucophrys |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | Myiarchus crinitus |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba |
| Great Kiskadee | Pitangus sulphuratus |
| Great-tailed Grackle | Quiscalus mexicanus |
| Green Heron * | Butorides virescens |
| Green Honeycreeper | Chlorophanes spiza |
| Green Kingfisher | Chloroceryle americana |
| Green Thorntail | Discosura conversii |
| Grey-headed Chachalaca | Ortalis cinereiceps |
| Hairy Woodpecker | Dryobates villosus |
| Harris’s hawk | Parabuteo unicinctus |
| Hoffman’s Woodpecker | Megaceryle hoffmannii |
| House Wren | Troglodytes aedon |
| Keel-billed Motmot | Electron carinatum |
| King Vulture | Sarcoramphus papa |
| Large-footed Finch | Pezopetes capitalis |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla |
| Lesser Nighthawk | Chordeiles acutipennis |
| Lesser Violetear | Colibri cyanotus |
| Lesset Yellowlegs * | Tringa flavipes |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea |
| Long-billed Hermit | Phaethornis longirostris |
| Long-billed Starthroat * | Heliomaster longirostris |
| Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher | Ptilogonys caudatus |
| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens |
| Mangrove Swallow | Tachycineta albilinea |
| Melodious Blackbird | Dives dives |
| Montezuma Oropendola | Psarocolius montezuma |
| Mountain Elaenia | Elaenia frantzii |
| Neotropic Cormorant * | Phalocrocorax brasilianus |
| Northerd Jacana | Jacana spinosa |
| Northern Emerald-Toucanet | Aulacorhynchus prasinus |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkensia motacilla |
| Ochraceous Pewee | Contopus ochraceus |
| Ocraceous Wren * | Troglodytes ochraceous |
| Olive-throated Parakeet | Eupsittula nana |
| Pale-billed Woodpecker | Campephilus guatamalensis |
| Palm Tanager | Thraupis palmarum |
| Philadelphia Vireo | Vireo philadelphicus |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinicus |
| Purple-crowned Fairy | Heliothryx barroti |
| Purple-throated Mountain Gem | Lampornis calolaemus |
| Red-crowned Woodpecker | Megaceryle rubricapillus |
| Red-headed Barbet | Eubucco bourcierii |
| Red-legged Honeycreeper | Cyanerpes cyaneus |
| Red-lored Parrot | Amazona autumnalis |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicencis |
| Red-throated Ant Tanager | Habia fuscicauda |
| Red-winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus |
| Resplendant Quetzalo | Pharomachrus mocinno |
| Ringed Kingfisher | Megaceryle torquatus |
| Roadside Hawk | Rupornis magnirostris |
| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia |
| Royal Tern * | Thalasseus maximus |
| Ruddy Ground-Dove | Columbina talpacoti |
| Ruddy Pigeon * | Patagioenas subvinacea |
| Ruddy Treerunner | Margaromis rubiginosus |
| Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush * | Catharius frantzii |
| Rufous Motmot | Baryphthengus martii |
| Rufous-collared Sparrow | Zonotrichia capensis |
| Rufous-tailed Hummingbird | Amazilia tzacatl |
| Rufous-tailed Jacamar * | Galbula ruficauda |
| Russet-naped Wood-Rail | Aramides albiventris |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis |
| Scaley-breasted Hummingbird | Phaeochroa cuvierii |
| Scarlet Macaw | Ara macao |
| Scarlet-rumped Tanager | Ramphocelus passerinii |
| Slatey Flowerpiercer | Diglossa plumbea |
| Slaty-tailed Trogon * | Trogon massena |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula |
| Social Flycatcher | Myiozetetes similis |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria |
| Sooty Thrush | Turdus nigrescens |
| Sooty-capped Chlorospingus | Chlorospingus pileatus |
| Southern Lapwing | Vanellus chiliensis |
| Spangle-cheeked Tanager | Tangara dowii |
| Speckled Tanager | Tangara guttata |
| Spectacled Owl | Pulsatrix perspicillata |
| Spot-crowned Euphonia | Euphonia iritans |
| Squirrel Cuckoo | Piaya cayana |
| Streak-headed Woodcreeper | Plepidocolaptes souleyetii |
| Sulphur-winged Parakeet * | Pyrrhura hoffmannii |
| Summer Tanager | Piranga rubra |
| Sungrebe | Heliomis fulica |
| Swallow-tailed Kite | Elanoides forficatus |
| Talamanca Hummingbird | Eugenes spectabilis |
| Tennessee Warbler * | Oreothlypis peregrina |
| Thick-billed Euphonia | Euphonia laniirostris |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor |
| Tropical Kingbird | Tyrannus melancholicus |
| Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura |
| Violet Sabrewing | Campylopterus hemileucurus |
| Volcano Hummingbird | Selaphorus flammula |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus |
| White Ibis * | Eudocimus albus |
| White-collared Manakin | Manacus candii |
| White-Collared Swift * | Streptoprocne zonaris |
| White-Winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata |
| Wilson’s Warbler | Cardellina pusilla |
| Wood Stork | Mycteria americana |
| Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Nyctanassa violacea |
| Yellow-headed Caracara | Milvago chimachima |
| Yellow-thighed Finch | Pselliophorus tibialis |
| Yellow-throated Euphonia * | Euphonia hirundinacea |
| Yellow-throated Toucan | Ramphastos ambiguus |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavirons |
| * Seen but not by us. |
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