5 Candidates for the Most Common Fowl in Costa Rica

All birds have worth. I do consider that however…if I had to decide on between a Rock Pigeon and a Golden-hooded Tanager, you may guess the place I’d be focusing the binos!

It’s laborious not to have a look at the Golden-hooded Tanager.

Let’s face it, some birds are extra fashionable than others. There are fowl species with the ability of persona and feathered pals with tremendous migratory prowess. A few of us are captivated by the fierce stares of hawks and the raptorial majesty of a diving falcon. A good subset of birders are even loopy about gulls (!).

Such birds have their followers however the ones that normally win the avian prize, the birds that stroll the crimson carpets of our birding desires, these are the beautiful ones. Simply check out a Northern Cardinal. In plenty of locations, this yard magnificence is the most well-liked fowl on the block!

Cardinals win us over with gorgeous colours, a reasonably track, and customary presence. I grew up with the crested crimson birds however I don’t see them any extra. It’s not that they don’t nonetheless happen in Niagara Falls, New York. They do certainly however I haven’t resided within the Cataract Metropolis for a while. I stay in Costa Rica, a spot that makes up for the dearth of cardinals with trogons, motmots, and like 900 different fowl species.

I ponder which birds are hottest in Costa Rica. With so many birds to select from, it’s laborious to say. Nonetheless, I feel these 5 are some good candidates.

Clay-colored Thrush

This fowl may not look fairly however, regionally, it’s lengthy been fashionable in Costa Rica! Individuals in Costa Rica have most likely been paying shut consideration to those tropical cousins of the American Robin for 1000’s of years. When the Clay-coloreds begin singing, of us realize it’s time to plant The Three Sisters (corn, bean, and squash), and different crops. The thrushes know that the rains are simply across the nook and so they remind us by filling the countryside with their robin-like songs. That is why Costa Rica picked the “Yiguirro” to be the nationwide fowl, even with so many different prettier birds to select from.

Scarlet Macaw

An enormous crimson parrot with blue and yellow highlights is a tough fowl to overlook! At one time, Scarlet Macaws in Costa Rica have been tremendously diminished. It was like so many different locations the place the younger birds have been stolen from nests, habitat was destroyed, and grownup macaws sometimes hunted.

Fortunately, In Costa Rica, that ignorance ended a while in the past. Lengthy sufficient, in truth, for Scarlet Macaws to change into frequent birds in lots of components of the nation. They’re additionally fashionable, it looks like plenty of locals are pleased with the majestic birds and their conservation success story.

Keel-billed Toucan

I dare say plenty of locals like this fowl too. Just like the macaw, it’s one other laborious one to disregard! In Costa Rica, it’s additionally a reasonably frequent fowl, I’ve even seen them a brief drive from the airport!

Nonetheless, visiting birders like them much more. Most ask me in the event that they’ll see a Keel-billed Toucan, or the place they will see them. I’m joyful to provide a simple reply; a number of locations! Of the numerous fowl species visiting birders hope to see, these unimaginable rainbow-beaked birds are one of many simpler birds on the prime of the goal checklist.

Scarlet-rumped Tanager

Daring and exquisite, straightforward to see and vocal, these placing tanagers simply may be our cardinal. Though you may’t see them in dry forest or within the mountains, they’re frequent backyard birds in all places else. Whenever you drive to decrease elevations, it received’t take lengthy to see a flash of crimson and black in roadside vegetation.

Resplendent Quetzal

The fifth fowl on our checklist is royalty amongst birds. Heck, it seems so loopy unimaginable, some cultures took it to be a divine messenger! Espy one within the wild and it’s straightforward to see why. If you would like a fowl to take your breath away, one to perhaps make you cry, the Resplendent Quetzal simply may do the trick.

In Costa Rica, this mega trogon is fashionable amongst locals and a should for visiting birders. Fortunately, it’s additionally pretty frequent and accessible in most of our highland forests.

In Costa Rica, we’ve acquired a heck of plenty of birds to select from. It’s most likely not possible to select the 5 hottest ones however I wager the species talked about above are good candidates. After all one of the best ways to search out your favourite birds is by coming to Costa Rica and seeing them for your self. Will you want a quetzal over a Black-hooded Antthrush? Desire a White-fronted Nunbird or an Ornate Hawk-eagle? Snowcap anybody?

The very best reply is “the entire above and a few”. From the tiny, plain Slaty Flowerpiercer to the gaudy Pink-headed Barbet, I do know I like all of them.