The GOS now has two exciting, ten-day trips to Costa Rica.
The first trip is the Quetzal trip, which is basically Western Costa Rica. It explores beautiful Monteverde, Palo Verde National Park, Carara National Park, Pura Vida Botanical Gardens, The famous Skywalk, Mangrove Tours by Boat, Tarcoles, Silvestres (Baru NWR), Los Cotingas (Skutch’s property), the Oso Peninsula, and finally, Mirador del Quetzales (replete with quetzals).
The second trip is the Sarapiqui Trip, or Eastern Costa Rica, and goes to many of the same places past trips have explored: Hummingbird House, Poas Volcano, Selva Verde, La Paz Waterfalls, Pozo Azul, Timbre Forest Reserve, and the boat trip up the Rio Frio (fantastic!).
Both trips are $2000, and the dates are: Feb 5 – 15 (Quetzal, or Western)); and Feb 18-28 (Sarapique, or Eastern). Anyone wishing to go on more than one tour will be granted a big discount, and we’ll take you to a good birding lodge in-between.
The 2008 tours still have openings, so let us know!
Pictures from previous trips to Costa Rica followed by 2002 GOS Bird List
![]() Green Honeycreeper Male |
![]() Thick-Billed Euphonia |
![]() Costa Rican Wasp and Termites Nests. |
![]() Sooty-Capped Bush-Tanager |
![]() Golden-Naped Chlorophonia |
![]() Flame-Colored Tanager |
![]() R Quetzal Young |
![]() R Quetzal Male |
![]() Scarlet Macaw |
![]() Olive Ridley |
![]() Red-breasted Blackbird |
![]() Fiery-Billed Aracari |
![]() Three-Toed Sloth |
![]() Common Potoo Baby |
![]() Swallow-Tailed Kite |
![]() Speckled Tanager at Skutch's |
![]() American Pigmy Kingfisher |
![]() Sungrebe |
![]() Collared Aracari |
![]() Red-Legged Honeycreeper |
![]() Passerini's Tanager |
![]() Black-Cowled- Oriole |
![]() Red-Lored Parrot Pair |
![]() Great Green Macaw |
![]() Tarpon |
![]() Spider Monkey |
![]() White-Throated Crake |
![]() Slaty-Tailed Trogon |
![]() Blue-Throated Tucanet |
![]() Red-Headed Barber |
![]() Tawny-Capped Euphonia |
![]() Jacana |
![]() Bare-Throated Tiger-Heron with Cecillian |
![]() Greater Kiskadee |
![]() Red-Headed Barbet |
![]() Violet Sabrewing Sitting |
![]() Silver-Throated Tanager |
Bird List from GOS Trip 01/03/02-01/10/02
Common, Caspian Sandwich
&Royal terns
Laughing Gull
Brown Pelican
Anhinga
Neotropic Cormorant
Wooden Stork
Roseate Spoonbill
Green Ibis*
White Ibis
Bloat-billed Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron*
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Limpkin*
Great Blue Heron
Louisiana Heron
Little Blue Hero
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Cattle Regret
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
Faciated Tiger-Heron
Gray-necked Wood-Rail*
Northern Jacana
Purple Gallon Mule
Am Coot*
Common Moorhen*
Least Grebe
Blue-winged Teal*
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck*
Muscovy*
Southern Slapwing
Short-billed Dowitcher
Willet
Black-necked Stilted
Whimbrel
Wilson’s Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Spotted Sandpaper
Gray-headed Chachalaca*
Crested Guan
Black Guan*
Great Tinamou
Thicket Tinamou*
Little Tinamou
Spotted-bellied Bobwhite*
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
King Vulture
Great Black Hawk
Common Black Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk*
White-tailed Hawk*
Harris’s Hawk*
Crested Carara
Yellow-headed Caracara
Roadside Hawk
Gay Hawk
Peregrine*
Northern Harrier*
Laughing Falcon
Am Kestrel
Red-tailed Hawk#
Bat Falcon
Cooper’s Hawk
Gray-headed Kite*
Broad-winged Hawk*
Osprey*
Band-tailed Pigeon
Red-billed Pigeon
Pale-vented Pigeon*
Short-billed Pigeon
Blue Ground-Dove
Cruddy Ground-Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Inca Dove
White-winged Dove
White-tipped Dove
Gray-chested Dove*
Scarlet Macaw
White-crowned Parrot
Red-lored Parrot
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Barred Parakeet
Olive-throated Parakeet*
White-fronted Parrot*
Mangrove Cuckoo*
Groovie-billed Ani
Squirrel Cuckoo
Pauraque
Gray-rumped Swift
White-collared Swift
Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift*
Gray-breasted Martini
Southern RW Swallow
Northern RW Swallow*
Barn Swallow*
Blue&White Swallow*
Little Hermit
Long-tailed Hermit
Green Hermit
Green Violet-ear
Violent Sabrewing
Scaley-breasts Hummingbird
Green-breasted Mango
Purple-crowned Fairy
Green-crowned Brilliant
Magnificent Hummingbird
White-necked Jacobin
White-bellied Mounting-Jim
Purple-throated Mountain-Gem
Blue-throated Golden-tail
Dufous-tailed Hummingbird
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Fiery-throated Hummingbird
Steely-vented Hummingbird
Coppery-headed Hummingbird
Volcano Hummingbird
Green Thorntail (MY LIFEBIRD)
Resplendent Quetzal
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Violaceous Trogon
Black-headed Trogon*
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Ringed Kingfisher, plus???
*- Amazon, Pygmy and Green,
Blue-crowned Motmot*
Pale-billed Woodpecker*
Lineated Wdpkr*
Hoffman’s Wdpkr Hmmm?
Chesnut-colored Wdpkr
Black-cheeked Wdpkr
Hairy Wdpkr
Keel-billed Toucan
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
Collared Aracari
Fiery-billed Aracari*
Prong-billed Barbet
Red-headed Barbarian
White-whiskered Puffbird*
Plain Xenops
Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Ruddy Wdcrpr
Barred Wdcrpr
Spotted-crowned Wdcrpr
Buffy Tuftedcheek
Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner*?
Red-faced Spinetail
Spectacled Antpitta*
Black-faced Antthrush*
Great Antshrike*
Barred Antshrike
Black-hooded Antshrike
Slaty Antshrike
Chesnut-backed Antbird
Dotted-winged Antbird
Dusky Antbird
Long-billed Gnatwren
White-collared Manakin
Orange-collared Manakin
Red-capped Manakin
Gray-headed Womanakin
Cinnamon Becard
Masked Tityra
Black-crowned Tityra
Yellow-billed Cotinga
Snowy Cotinga*
Rufous Piha
3-wattled Bellbird
Tropical Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher*
Bright-rumped Attila, hon
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Greater Kiskadee
Social Flycatcher
Gray-capped Flycatcher
White-ringed Flycatcher
Great-crested Flycatcher
Panama Flycatcher
Nutting’s Flycatcher*
Brown-crested Flycatcher*
Torrent Tyrranulet
Black Phoebe
Long-tailed Tyrant
Tropical Pewee
Tufted Flycatcher#
Black-capped Flycatcher
Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher*
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
Common Tody-flycatcher
Mistletoe Tyrranulet
Zeledon’s Tyrranulet*
Mountain Elania
Yellow-bellied Elania
Rufous-naped Wren
Banded-backed Wren
Rufous&White Wren
Riverside Wren
Bay Wren
White-breasted Wood-Wren
Plain Wren
House Wren
Ochraceous Wren#
Black-billed Nightingale Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Mountain Robin
Sooty Robin
Clay-colored Robin
B&Y Silky-Flycatcher
LY Silky-Flycatcher
White-throated Magpie Jay*?
Brown Jay
Black-faced Solitaire
Lesser Greenlet
Yellow-throated Vireo
Yellow-winged Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Rufous-capped Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Bananaquit
Tropical Gnatcatcher
Flame-throated Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
B&W Warbler
Am Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler*
Yellow Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Collared Redstart
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
BT Green Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush*
Streaked-backed Oriole*
Black-cowled Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Montezuma Oropendola
Giant Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
GT Grackle
Nicaraguan Grackle*
Yellow-crowned Euphonia
Olive-backed Euphonia
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Thick-billed Euphonia
Ashy-throated Bush-Tanager
Common Bush-Tanager
Palm Tanager
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Green Honeycreeper
Blue Dacnis
Silver-throated Tanager
Bay-headed Tanager
Spangled-cheeked Tanager
Golden-hooded Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
White-lined Tanager
White-shouldered Tanager
Crimson-collared Teenager
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Summer Tanager
Flame-colored Tanager
Red-throated Ant-Tanager#
Black-headed Saltator
Buff-throated Saltator
Grayish Saltator
Black-faced Grosbeak
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak#
Blue-black Grosbeak
Painted Bunting
Indigo Bunting
Yellow-throated Brush-Finch
Orange-billed Sparrow
Large-footed Finch
Yellow-thighed Finch
White-collared Seedeater
Variable Seedeater
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Blue-black Grassquit
Slaty Flowerpiercer
Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Peg-billed Finch
Stripe-headed Sparrow
Volcano Junco
Dickcissel*
Black-striped Sparrow
Olive Sparrow*
E. Meadowlark*
House Sparrow
Rufous-collared Sparrow
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