Free Birds
Free Birds
Welcome to the place where the birds are free. And where you can become a happy birder.
National Bird Counting Day 2022
The Costa Rican Bird Route held its national bird counting day 2022 on January 22nd. Again, we had the help and support of a professional team of birders. They counted 76 species in twenty-four hours. See the list here. We want to thank everyone involved in this fantastic event. You can contact them at costaricanbirdroute@hotmail.com if you desire more information.
Plans and plants
Blue Falls of Costa Rica’s property features many primary forests, open fields, and riverbanks, allowing you to find the same birds as at our sister project, Catarata Del Toro. See hereunder ‘The Catch of one day.’ Maybe you see fewer hummingbirds. The good thing is that we are planting all kinds of fruit trees in the area. And they are coming up very well. Additionally, we are planting more plants and bushes, and later, we will construct a bird-watching area. So, it will be nice to stroll around here.
The ‘Catch’ of one day
In August 2020, an area tour guide and his wife visited us on a Saturday. Both are enthusiastic professional birders. From 3.00 pm till 10.00 am the next day, they spotted the following birds: Tropical Kingbird, Melodious Blackbird, Swallow-tailed Kite, Slaty flower purser, Cherrie’s tanager, White-tailed kite, Slaty-backed nightingale thrush, Streak headed woodcreeper, White hawk, Scaly throated foliage gleaner, Scaly-breasted pygmy tyrant, Streak breasted tree hunter, Spotted barb tail, Sooty faced finch, Chestnut-capped brush finch, Buff-rumped warbler, Black-breasted wood quail, Black-breasted wood wren, Common tody flycatcher, Common bush tanager, Brown jay, Yellow-faced grassquit, Slate-throated Redstar, Blue-grey Tanager, Montezuma oropendola, Peg-billed finch, Crested guan, Rufous-winged woodcreeper, Silver throated tanager, Thorntail hummingbird, Brown violet ear hummingbird, Green hermit, Green-crowned brilliant, Black-bellied Hummingbird, Rufous-tailed hummingbird, Coppery headed Emerald, Violet Sabrewing, Purple-throated mountain gem, Collared trogon, Black vulture, Clay-colored thrush, Social flycatcher, and the Rufous-collared sparrow.
Something impressive, not?
The ‘Catch’ of one day – continued.
The before mentioned couple has finished their list. There were 174 species in just two days, and now the counter stands at 218. On both our properties. Under which some endemic species. We like sharing the complete list in a Word document or PDF file.
According to the authors, more species are to follow. We will keep you informed.
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