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
Every year, the Costa Rican Bird Route holds its National Bird Counting Day. A professional team of birders counted 76 species in twenty-four hours. If you want more information, you can contact them at costaricanbirdroute@hotmail.com.
Trees, bushes, and plants.
Blue Falls of Costa Rica’s property features primary forests, open fields, bushes, low grass, high grass, lakes, and riverbanks. For every bird, something.
Around 1.000 plant and bushes have been planted around the trails and in open fields. As time passes, they will grow and start producing all kinds of fruits for the birds.
Already, we see and hear more birds than ever before. We can only imagine what the near future will show us. When things settle down a bit, we plan to construct some bird-watching platforms.
The ‘Catch’ of one day
A tour guide and his wife, from the area 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.
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.
Birds and waterfalls
Most people visit Blue Falls in Costa Rica for its extraordinary blue waterfalls. That sounds logical, and it is.
But another huge attraction is the birds. If you are a birder, you will be happy at our place.
Keep it in mind: you are welcome.
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