Costa Rica · Cartago Province
CATIE-Turrialba
406 species and 50,136 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: December–January, April and October, with up to 203 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Northern JacanaJacana spinosa
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Montezuma OropendolaPsarocolius montezuma
Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
Black VultureCoragyps atratus
AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
Social FlycatcherMyiozetetes similis
Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
Finsch's ParakeetPsittacara finschi
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Brown JayCyanocorax morio
Palm TanagerThraupis palmarumSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- La Angostura Florencia4 km371 species
- Rancho Naturalista12 km521 species
- Hotel Quelitales15 km458 species
- Reserva El Copal16 km481 species
- Las Brisas Nature Reserve20 km419 species
- PN Tapanti – Sector Tapanti20 km488 species
All 406 species recorded here
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Finsch's Parakeet Psittacara finschi
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius
- Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Green Ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Golden-hooded Tanager Stilpnia larvata
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris
- Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
- Blue-and-white Swallow Pygochelidon cyanoleuca
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Grey-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis
- Grey-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Melodious Blackbird Dives dives
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- Collared Aracari Pteroglossus torquatus
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii
- Scarlet-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Cocoa Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus susurrans
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Yellow-throated Euphonia Euphonia hirundinacea
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Yellow-headed Caracara Daptrius chimachima
- Great Potoo Nyctibius grandis
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Olive-backed Euphonia Euphonia gouldi
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia Euphonia luteicapilla
- Mistletoe Tyrannulet Zimmerius parvus
- Plain-colored Tanager Tangara inornata
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Band-backed Wren Campylorhynchus zonatus
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza
- Chestnut-headed Oropendola Psarocolius wagleri
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas
- White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
- Cinnamon Becard Pachyramphus cinnamomeus
- Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
- Russet-naped Wood Rail Aramides albiventris
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
- Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Northern Tropical Pewee Contopus bogotensis
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Cabanis's Wren Cantorchilus modestus
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum nigriceps
- White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Lesser Greenlet Pachysylvia decurtata
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Black-crowned Tityra Tityra inquisitor
- Black-crowned Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Bay Wren Cantorchilus nigricapillus
- White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora
- Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul
- Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus
- Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- White-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucosticta
- Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Lesson's Motmot Momotus lessonii
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- White-collared Manakin Manacus candei
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona
- Northern Bentbill Oncostoma cinereigulare
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Trilling Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutila
- White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Mottled Owl Strix virgata
- Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
- Tropical Screech Owl Megascops choliba
- Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Sunbittern Eurypyga helias
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Black-throated Wren Pheugopedius atrogularis
- Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus
- Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris
- Yellow-throated Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus
- Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola
- Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
- Red-breasted Meadowlark Leistes militaris
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis
- White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus
- Grey-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Inca Dove Columbina inca
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Cabanis's Ground Sparrow Melozone cabanisi
- Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis
- Fasciated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma fasciatum
- Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris
- Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delattrii
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Stripe-breasted Wren Cantorchilus thoracicus
- American Black Swift Cypseloides niger
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis
- Silver-throated Tanager Tangara icterocephala
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- White-vented Euphonia Euphonia minuta
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis
- Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanoloxia cyanoides
- Northern Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- White-throated Flycatcher Empidonax albigularis
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor
- Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens
- Striped Owl Asio clamator
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Green Hermit Phaethornis guy
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui
- Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae
- Common Potoo Nyctibius griseus
- Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- White-ringed Flycatcher Conopias albovittatus
- Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura
- Great Tinamou Tinamus major
- Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava
- Southern Nightingale-Wren Microcerculus marginatus
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Chalybura urochrysia
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
- Long-tailed Tyrant Colonia colonus
- Crested Owl Lophostrix cristata
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- Spot-fronted Swift Cypseloides cherriei
- Grey-chested Dove Leptotila cassinii
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- Blue-chested Hummingbird Polyerata amabilis
- Short-tailed Nighthawk Lurocalis semitorquatus
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Amazonian Black-throated Trogon Trogon rufus
- Crimson-collared Tanager Ramphocelus sanguinolentus
- Tawny-capped Euphonia Euphonia anneae
- Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris
- Snowcap Microchera albocoronata
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
- Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus
- Smoky-brown Woodpecker Leuconotopicus fumigatus
- Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
- Purple-throated Fruitcrow Querula purpurata
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Spotted Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus erythropygius
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Barred Parakeet Bolborhynchus lineola
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Terenotriccus erythrurus
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata
- Double-striped Thick-knee Hesperoburhinus bistriatus
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Blue-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia hoffmanni
- White-ruffed Manakin Corapipo altera
- Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Spot-crowned Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes affinis
- Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Speckled Tanager Ixothraupis guttata
- Rufous Motmot Baryphthengus martii
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus cervinigularis
- Black-faced Antthrush Formicarius analis
- Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Yellow-winged Flatbill Tolmomyias flavotectus
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Red Tanager Piranga flava
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
- Collared Trogon Trogon collaris
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus uropygialis
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Black-and-yellow Tanager Chrysothlypis chrysomelas
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus
- Thicket Antpitta Myrmothera dives
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Rufous-winged Woodpecker Piculus simplex
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus aurantiirostris
- Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana
- Buff-rumped Warbler Myiothlypis fulvicauda
- Torrent Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea
- Golden-crowned Warbler Basileuterus culicivorus
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae
- White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Tiny Hawk Microspizias superciliosus
- Northern Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus
- Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus
- Grey-rumped Swift Chaetura cinereiventris
- Slate-throated Whitestart Myioborus miniatus
- Pale-vented Thrush Turdus obsoletus
- Carmiol's Tanager Chlorothraupis carmioli
- Broad-billed Motmot Electron platyrhynchum
- Tawny-chested Flycatcher Aphanotriccus capitalis
- Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus
- Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
- Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor
- Black-faced Grosbeak Caryothraustes poliogaster
- Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda
- Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis
- Green Thorntail Discosura conversii
- Slate-colored Seedeater Sporophila schistacea
- Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus
- Golden-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes hemichrysus
- Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge Dendrortyx leucophrys
- Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
- Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
- Spotted Antbird Hylophylax naevioides
- White-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio leucothorax
- Northern Nightingale-Wren Microcerculus philomela
- White-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus mystaceus
- Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata
- Black-striped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus
- Brown Violetear Colibri delphinae
- MacGillivray's Warbler Geothlypis tolmiei
- Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta
- Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens
- White-chinned Swift Cypseloides cryptus
- Sulphur-winged Parakeet Pyrrhura hoffmanni
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimeti
- Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea
- Golden-crowned Spadebill Platyrinchus coronatus
- Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus
- Flame-colored Tanager Piranga bidentata
- Red-fronted Parrotlet Touit costaricensis
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Dull-mantled Antbird Sipia laemosticta
- Red-headed Barbet Eubucco bourcierii
- Black-faced Solitaire Myadestes melanops
- Prong-billed Barbet Semnornis frantzii
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
- Tawny-crested Tanager Tachyphonus delatrii
- Emerald Tanager Tangara florida
- Rufous-winged Tanager Tangara lavinia
- Mountain Thrush Turdus plebejus
- Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus mexicanus
- Ashy-throated Chlorospingus Chlorospingus canigularis
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Barred Forest Falcon Micrastur ruficollis
- Rufous-browed Tyrannulet Phylloscartes superciliaris
- Northern Schiffornis Schiffornis veraepacis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at CATIE-Turrialba?
December–January, April and October. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 203 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at CATIE-Turrialba?
406 species, from 50,136 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at CATIE-Turrialba in November?
The most recorded in November: Northern Jacana, Great-tailed Grackle, Montezuma Oropendola, Purple Gallinule and Black Vulture.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.