| Costa Rica has long been famous among serious bird | | | | stomping grounds for birders, but just about |
| watchers, but many people who would never | | | | anywhere you look in Costa Rica, you spot |
| consider the activity at home quickly have become | | | | interesting avian species. Even some of the hotels in |
| interested in the country's spectacular avian diversity. | | | | the San Jose area have such colorful critters as |
| With almost 850 species of birds -more than total of | | | | blue-grey tanagers, great kiskadees and |
| what North America has- packed into an area half | | | | crimson-fronted parakeets in their gardens. |
| the size of Kentucky, it's hard not to become | | | | However, those interested in bird watching will want |
| enthused about the variety of feathered creatures | | | | to see the resplendent quetzal, which lives in the |
| one encounters in Costa Rica. And we can provide us | | | | cloud forests of Monteverde, Los Santos region and |
| experienced nature guides who make any costa rica | | | | the Central Volcanic Mountain Range, and the equally |
| bird watching vacation an educational experience. | | | | spectacular scarlet macaw, which can be seen on the |
| One of the reasons for Costa Rica's extraordinary | | | | Osa Peninsula or the area around the Carara Biological |
| bird life is the country's great variety of habitats: rain | | | | Reserve. |
| forests, mangrove swamps, beaches, cloud forest, | | | | Cano negro wild life refuge is other destination for |
| rivers, etc. And any two of those ecosystems, with | | | | your Costa Rica bird watching vacation. Cano Negro |
| their resident bird species, are often only a short | | | | is a sweet water lagoon, not to deep, with an |
| distance apart. | | | | extension of 800 hectares. The lagoon and the |
| Birders from North America who enjoy their Costa | | | | nearby areas, are some of most important and vital |
| Rica bird watching vacation during the northern winter | | | | biological areas that support environment quality in |
| invariably recognize familiar faces in the forest, since | | | | the north side of the country. The Cano Negro |
| many species of warblers, flycatchers, vireos, orioles, | | | | refuge is an important source of food to migratory |
| etc. migrate to Costa Rica every winter. | | | | birds from the north. There are also several species |
| The country's exemplary System of National Parks | | | | of plants and animals not found anywhere else in the |
| and Protected Areas provide more than ample | | | | country, birds and fishes for the human consume. |