Birding Hike




Birding with Kenneth and Albert

13 of us got up early for a guided bird walk with Kenneth and Albert. The trip was from 5:45 to 7:45. Since we weren't back in time for breakfast, Kenneth make arrangements at the dining hall for us to get food a little later than usual. We spent some time near the buildings and then walked back up the road out of La Selva. Then we went into the forest on a trail and made a loop that brought us out to where we hiked the first day. The guides were fantastic, and we saw lots of birds! Here is the list:


Gray-necked wood-rail





Gray-necked wood-rail

Olive-throated parakeet

White-crowned parrot

Squirrel cuckoo

Lesser swallow-tailed swift

Band-tailed barbthroat

Violet-crowned woodnymph

Rufous-tailed hummingbird

Violaceous trogon

Black-cheeked woodpecker

Cinnamon woodpecker

Cocoa woodpecker

Great antshrike

Common tody flycatcher

Great kiskadee

Social flycatcher

Gray-capped flycatcher

Tropical kingbird

Cinnamon becard

White-collared manakin
Plain wren
Melodious blackbird
Black-cowled oriole
Montezuma oropendola