Costa Rica is known for it’s diverse wildlife population, especially birds. Here are some photos taken while on a trip in Spring on 2026.
Blue Vented Hummingbird
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous-tailed Humminbird
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Crowned Woodnymph
Blue-vented Hummingbird
Blue-vented Hummingbird
Green Thorntail Hummingbird
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Green Thorntail
Spectacled Caiman
Capuchin Monkey
Blue Land Crab
Basilisk LIzard
Bare-crowned Anteater
Capuchin Monkey
Black Vulture
Emerald Glass Frog
Brown Anole
Brown Pelicans
Buff-rumped Warbler
Buff-throated Woodcreeper
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Clay-colored Thrush
Common Tody Flycatcher
Crambid Snout Moth
Crested Guan
Giant Red-winged Grasshopper
Capuchin Monkey
Giant Silk Moth
Glasswing Butterfly
Red-eyed Tree Frog
Gray-capped Flycatcher
Great Antstrike
Great Curassow
Great Kiskadee
Green Iguana
Grey Hawk
Grey-headed Chachalaca
Poison Dart Frog or Blue Jeans Frog
Keel-billed Toucan. It would not be a trip to Costa Rica without one of these
Leafcutter Ant
White-nosed Coati
Leafcutter Ant
Montezuma Oropendola
Squirrel
Arenal Volcano
Muscovy Duck and chicks
Northern Tropical Peewee
Orange-billed Sparrow
Roadside Hawk
Rufous Mot-Mot
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
Spotted Sandpiper
Swallow-Tailed Kite
Swallow-Tailed Kite
Torrent Tyrannulet
Tropical Kingbird
Variable Seedeater
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-throated Euponia
Yellow-throated Toucan
Bare Throated Tiger Heron on it's nest
Gray-throated Martin
Scarelet-rumped Tanager
White-winged Dove
Arenal Volcano
Bare-throated Tiger Heron
Eyelash Pit Viper
Red-throated Ant Tanager
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Pacific Ocean Sunset
Pied Bill Grebe