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Heatherlea: Tour of Costa Rica
- We visit Costa Rica's biologically rich areas to give you the best birding and wildlife. A thrilling experience, ideal for the first time visitor or your first long-distance birding holiday. Our hotels and lodges offer high quality, comfortable accommodation, and excellent local guides ensure a relaxed, informal holiday which is also great fun.
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Costa
Rica 6-22 March 2004
- We soon made our way up to the Monteverde
Cloud Forest Reserve, a privately owned reserve dedicated
to wildlife preservation. A fruiting tree near the entrance
came alive with Black-faced Solitaires, at one time there
were 3 on the ground a mere 10 ft. away posing for pictures.
The Black-faced Solitaire is usually a difficult species
to obtain good views of!....Steven Easley
reports for Birdfinders
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Selva Bananito and Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica October 25 - November 3 , 2008 
- Selva Bananito is a privately owned reserve on Costa Rica’s Atlantic versant, 15 km inland from the Caribbean. About 300 species of birds have been recorded in and around the reserve....Jim Mattsson reports.
Costa Rica August 2008
- In summary, I thoroughly recommend Costa Rica as an eco-holiday destination. We all enjoyed the First Choice Grand Tour very much and would recommend it as a way of seeing what Costa Rica has to offer. Although the numbers of bird species seen in the first week was not as high as I was expecting, the second week with Carlos as guide improved things tremendously...John Yates reports
Costa Rica Jan 25th - Feb 13th 2008
- How to see/find 500 species in 20 days without hiring a bird guide and not knowing any bird sounds. My sons Erlen and Aleksander and myself made it a reality winter of 2008. But then we also worked hard – very hard. We birded from dawn to dusk almost every day...Jan Landsverk reports.
Costa Rica, 8
March - 25 March 2007
- This trip covers a 17-day trip to Costa
Rica taken by Joris Elst, Wim Heylen and Christel Van Asselberghs.
Our main aim was to see as many of the country endemics and near-endemics
as possible.
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Costa Rica August
2005
- I awoke early to strange tropical
sounds outside the cabin. Leaving the rest of the family
to sleep I slipped on some clothes and went out intro the
surprisingly cool morning. The gardens of the Vista del
Valle Plantation Inn were lush, tropical and beautiful, even
in the half light. Before long I started to see some of the
birds responsible for the unfamiliar sounds...Geoff
Upton reports
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Costa Rica - June
2005
- While
we were still on the grounds of the resort, we saw a
chestnut-mandibled toucan, golden-hooded tanagers, a
green kingfisher, rufous-naped wrens, rufous-tailed hummingbirds,a
yellow-throated euphonia, common tody flycatchers, and
a Hoffman's woodpecker....Bill and Judy
Adams report.
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16 days in Costa Rica 28th
March -12th April 2005
- The birding was very good with trip highlights of 2 Umbrellabirds,
4 Three Wattled Bellbirds, 33 species of hummingbird, 22 species
of tanager and 2 Great Currasows...Stuart White reports
Costa
Rica 3-19 March 2005
- Strolls in the Hotel Brilla Sol grounds,
both before and after breakfast, provided the first birds of
our trip. These included cinnamon and rufous tailed hummingbirds,
blue and white swallows and brown jay....Martyn
Anderson and Liz Naughton report
Budget Birding in Costa Rica 19 January- 19 March 2005
- This report details a two months birding trip to Costa Rica and will focus on the possibilities of birding in Costa Rica while traveling with public transport and sleeping in budget hotels. It will show you that even on a budget it is possible to visit many national parks, and see a lot of beautiful birds.....Udo Rijlaarsdam reports
Travel hints for Costa Rica
Jan 2005
- Yet another trip report "whingeing" about
the lack of signs in Costa Rica moves me to write these directions
for crossing San Jose + notes on Nation park access...local expert
Dennis Rogers reports
Costa Rica 11-18
March 2004
- We were up at dawn and we had a look around
the garden. We saw a number of birds, including Hoffman's Woodpecker,
Yellow-green Vireo, the first of many Blue-gray Tanagers and Clay-colored
Robins, the odd Wren and Dove and about another half dozen species...Bob
Biggs reports.
Costa Rica August
11-22, 2003
- Most of my birding was done alone between
dawn and noon. My wife joined me on a few occasions and I took
two guided trips, one in Santa Elena and one in the villa of Samara.
Totals for the trip were very satisfying with 142 total species
seen by me. This included 109 additions to my life list!....Chris
Starling reports.
Costa Rica, Cotingas & Quail-Doves
(Tinamous & Wood-Quail too) March
- April 2003
- The birds listed above, with the exception
of Cotingas, had always been difficult birds for me, especially
Wood-Quail. This trip was very successful in that I saw all my
target Cotingas, one of my favorite bird families, as well as
4 species of Quail-Dove, 3 Tinamous, and 2 Wood-Quails...Dave
Klauber reports
DIY Birding in Costa Rica 2003
February 14th - March 7th 2003
- Waking up just before dawn here was a magical
experience which perhaps can only happen once to a birdwatcher...
we identified our first bird in a new continent - appropriately
Costa Rica's national bird, Clay-coloured Robin. We then spent
a long time identifying Great Kiskadee...our third bird was one
of our target species, a stunning male Snowy Cotinga, in the trees
in the thermal resort...Chris Cameron + Julie Dawson
report.
Costa Rica 23nd
December 2002 to 13th January 2003
- Costa Rica was great - I saw 409 species,
of which 297 were lifers. However, it was the quality rather
than the quantity that made it so good. Highlights included Yellow-billed
Cotinga, Lesser Ground Cuckoo, Great Curassow, Northern Royal
Flycatcher, Great Green and Scarlet Macaws and many others....Clare
Moger reports.
Lots more pre 2003 reports
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