There is simply no better introduction to tropical birding than Costa Rica. Literally dozens of excellent birding areas all within easy reach and cover 12 major life zones that shelter 800-plus species. On-the-spot lodges let you wake up to the dawn chorus every day. Don’t forget your binoculars! To optimize your experience, we highly recommend a guided group or a private guide. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, our birding guides are the best in the country.

Also we recommend The field guide THE BIRDS OF COSTA RICA by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean from Comstock Publishing Associates a division of Cornell University press, Ithaca New York, 2007.

To request any of these books you can email Mr. Robin Coleman at rwc76@cornell.edu or costaricatour@earthlink.net

The Highlights for this Costa Rica Birding Tour are the following: 13 days/12 nights

• San Jose
• Drake bay-Corcovado National Park
• Esquinas Rainforest,Golfito
• Wilson Botanical Gardens
• Sierpe River
• Los Cusingos
• Cerro La Muerte
• San isidro del Genral
• Rancho Naturalista
• Turrialba

Day 1 Meet and assist , our representative will be waiting for you after customs, we will welcome you and take you your hotel in San Jose. San Jose is situated in the central valley of Costa Rica.

Day 2 We will fly to Osa Peninsula, Drake Bay Area

Day 3 Birding Trip to Corcovado National Park, overnight in Your Lodge

Day 4 Back to Sierpe River by boat thru the exuberant jungle and wildlife, we drive you to Esquinas Rainforest

Day 5 Birding Tour at Esquinas Rainforest.

Day 6 We will take a tour to the Wilson Tropical Gardens Lodge

Day 7 Birding tour at Wilson Tropical Gardens, overnight at your lodge.

Day 8 From The Golfito Area we will drive to San Isidro del General, we will visit Los Cusingos Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, this ‘garden’ hosts an excellent variety of birds, especially around the house with its feeders, but also in the protected surrounding forest area.

Day 9 Birding tour In Cerro d el a Muerte Area. Overnight at your lodge in the area of Cerro de la Muerte

Day 10 After breakfast, we wild rive to Rancho Naturalista- overlooking the Turrialba Valley east of San Jose Rancho Naturalista offers some of the most varied forest birding in Costa Rica. Overnight at your lodge

Day 12 After breakfast, we return to San Jose, free afternoon to relax or do some shopping in San Jose.

Day 13 We catch our return flight to return home. Hasta la Vista!