Although we ourselves are not avid birders, we know the names and sounds of the ones we see every day and love to check out the wide varieties swooping through, nesting, and hanging out at Pachamama.

  There is never a dull moment if you like birds in the Caribbean of Costa Rica as it seems there are always some interesting ones in view…I have seen parrots in the central market of Limon .  However, we often get serious birders staying here and they almost always say they see more birds here while sitting on the patio than they do walking with a guide..This is mainly because we are in the Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, have so many old growth trees they like, live beneath a mountain range, and alongside a river, which makes for kind of a natural wildlife amphitheatre..A nice young couple from BC Canada left me this list below when they left the other day so I thought I would post it here, partially so I know I will always have a copy and mainly so any birders or aspiring birders like me can check it out.They told me 10×42 or something like that is a good binocular…I have a 7×42 that works well since they are usually not too far away.. I could probably add another 10 or 20 including the Great Potoo (booah), the horned owls that wait and attack the bats pretty much every morning at sunrise, and the other raptors and hummingbirds that come by pretty much every day..  We of course know the best bird guides and many of them just pick people up here and walk to Manzanillo along the road because there are so many too see, but others go up to observe raptors or into various parts of the Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge.

Seen at Pachamama Between April 8 and 12^th, 2009 (sorry for any spelling errors I made)

Grey necked Wood Rail

Keel Billed Toucan

Wedge billed wood creeper

Piratic fly catcher

Bay Wren

Mangrove Blackhawk

Collared Aracari

Montezuma Orpendola

Chestnut Mandibuled Toucan

Bronze Tailed Plumleteer

Blue Grey Tanager

Scarlett Tanager

Black Throated Trogon

Variable Seedeater

Masked Tityra

Black Cowled Oriole

Band Backed Wren

Green Honey Creeper

Whitebreasted Wood Wren

Crested Guan (looks like a turkey)

Slaty Tailed trogon

Mealy Parrot

Red Lored Parrot

Chestnut Headed Orpendola

Buff Rumped Warbler

Pale Billed Woodpecker

Red Headed Woodpecker

Whitenecked Jacobin

Purple Crowned Fairy

Longbilled Hemit Hummingbird

Ringed Kingfisher

Passerinis Tanager

Yellow Billed Elania

Acadian Flycatcher

 Happy Birding