Costa Rica · Puntarenas Province
Esquinas Rainforest Lodge
406 species and 134,595 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January–April, with up to 298 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Scarlet-rumped TanagerRamphocelus passerinii
Riverside WrenCantorchilus semibadius
Yellow-throated ToucanRamphastos ambiguus
Rufous-tailed HummingbirdAmazilia tzacatl
Spot-crowned EuphoniaEuphonia imitans
Orange-billed SparrowArremon aurantiirostris
Great CurassowCrax rubra
Variable SeedeaterSporophila corvina
Grey-cowled Wood RailAramides cajaneus
BananaquitCoereba flaveola
Charming HummingbirdPolyerata decora
Long-billed HermitPhaethornis longirostris
Orange-collared ManakinManacus aurantiacus
Stripe-throated HermitPhaethornis striigularisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Coto 47 – Las Pangas26 km354 species
- Wilson Botanical Garden28 km462 species
- Bosque del Rio Tigre Lodge29 km375 species
- Finca Cántaros29 km357 species
- Rio Rincón bridge & environs30 km385 species
- Ciudad Neily rice fields south of Hospital30 km339 species
All 406 species recorded here
- Scarlet-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii
- Riverside Wren Cantorchilus semibadius
- Charming Hummingbird Polyerata decora
- Yellow-throated Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus
- Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Great Curassow Crax rubra
- Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Grey-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Grey-cowled Wood Rail Aramides cajaneus
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris
- Orange-collared Manakin Manacus aurantiacus
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
- Spot-crowned Euphonia Euphonia imitans
- Baird's Trogon Trogon bairdii
- Grey-chested Dove Leptotila cassinii
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri
- Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Golden-hooded Tanager Stilpnia larvata
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens
- Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus uropygialis
- Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
- Cocoa Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus susurrans
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Great Tinamou Tinamus major
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Lesson's Motmot Momotus lessonii
- Black-hooded Antshrike Thamnophilus bridgesi
- Black-faced Antthrush Formicarius analis
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Golden-naped Woodpecker Melanerpes chrysauchen
- Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena
- Buff-rumped Warbler Myiothlypis fulvicauda
- Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus
- Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanoloxia cyanoides
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Black-striped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus
- Black-bellied Wren Pheugopedius fasciatoventris
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Red-capped Manakin Ceratopipra mentalis
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Fiery-billed Aracari Pteroglossus frantzii
- Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Lesser Greenlet Pachysylvia decurtata
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda
- Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa
- Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza
- Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimeti
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Amazonian Black-throated Trogon Trogon rufus
- Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Phaeochroa cuvierii
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Costa Rican Swift Chaetura fumosa
- Northern Bentbill Oncostoma cinereigulare
- Mistletoe Tyrannulet Zimmerius parvus
- Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola
- Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
- Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis
- Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus
- Mealy Amazon Amazona farinosa
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner Automolus exsertus
- Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus
- Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aeneus
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Yellow-headed Caracara Daptrius chimachima
- Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora
- Eye-ringed Flatbill Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
- White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Rufous-winged Woodpecker Piculus simplex
- Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Red-breasted Meadowlark Leistes militaris
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae
- Grey-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
- Rufous Piha Lipaugus unirufus
- Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata
- Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis
- Sulphur-rumped Myiobius Myiobius sulphureipygius
- White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
- Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cayanensis
- Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla anabatina
- Finsch's Parakeet Psittacara finschi
- Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Cabanis's Wren Cantorchilus modestus
- Tropical Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus coronatus
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae
- Grey-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana
- Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana
- Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Pale-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albescens
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia Euphonia luteicapilla
- Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum
- White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Northern Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae
- Southern Nightingale-Wren Microcerculus marginatus
- Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus
- Slaty-headed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus sylvia
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Scarlet Macaw Ara macao
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Olivaceous Piculet Picumnus olivaceus
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis
- Black-crowned Tityra Tityra inquisitor
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Green Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius pulchellus
- Western Woodhaunter Automolus virgatus
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea
- Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
- White-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio leucothorax
- Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Trilling Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor
- Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus
- Brown-throated Parakeet Eupsittula pertinax
- Grey-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis
- Velvety Manakin Lepidothrix velutina
- White-throated Thrush Turdus assimilis
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Red-rumped Woodpecker Veniliornis kirkii
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Grey-lined Hawk Buteo nitidus
- Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Sporophila minuta
- White-crested Coquette Lophornis adorabilis
- Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet Tyrannulus elatus
- Melodious Blackbird Dives dives
- Little Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura typica
- Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona
- Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Terenotriccus erythrurus
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- White-whiskered Puffbird Malacoptila panamensis
- White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Turquoise Cotinga Cotinga ridgwayi
- Striped Owl Asio clamator
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Bicolored Antbird Gymnopithys bicolor
- Golden-crowned Spadebill Platyrinchus coronatus
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Brown-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus pusillus
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis
- White-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucosticta
- Northern Tropical Pewee Contopus bogotensis
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Common Potoo Nyctibius griseus
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
- Crested Owl Lophostrix cristata
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Crested Oropendola Psarocolius decumanus
- Black-tailed Myiobius Myiobius atricaudus
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus
- Slate-colored Seedeater Sporophila schistacea
- Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
- Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Tropical Screech Owl Megascops choliba
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius
- White-vented Euphonia Euphonia minuta
- Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura
- Marbled Wood Quail Odontophorus gujanensis
- Veraguan Mango Anthracothorax veraguensis
- Grey-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- White-necked Puffbird Notharchus hyperrhynchus
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Inca Dove Columbina inca
- Short-tailed Nighthawk Lurocalis semitorquatus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus
- Agami Heron Agamia agami
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma
- Silver-throated Tanager Tangara icterocephala
- White-tipped Sicklebill Eutoxeres aquila
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculatus
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Bran-colored Flycatcher Myiophobus fasciatus
- Green Hermit Phaethornis guy
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- Tiny Hawk Microspizias superciliosus
- Ruddy Woodcreeper Dendrocincla homochroa
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia edward
- Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Speckled Tanager Ixothraupis guttata
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Northern Schiffornis Schiffornis veraepacis
- Scaly-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus guatemalensis
- Streak-chested Antpitta Hylopezus perspicillatus
- Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
- Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor
- Red Tanager Piranga flava
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Chrysuronia coeruleogularis
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
- Cinnamon Becard Pachyramphus cinnamomeus
- Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
- Pearl Kite Gampsonyx swainsonii
- Green Ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Mottled Owl Strix virgata
- Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutila
- White-ruffed Manakin Corapipo altera
- Barred Forest Falcon Micrastur ruficollis
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- Bare-crowned Antbird Gymnocichla nudiceps
- Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
- Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Yellow-billed Cotinga Carpodectes antoniae
- Elegant Euphonia Chlorophonia elegantissima
- Choco Screech Owl Megascops centralis
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- American Black Swift Cypseloides niger
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Panama Flycatcher Myiarchus panamensis
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Chestnut-headed Oropendola Psarocolius wagleri
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Mangrove Hummingbird Chrysuronia boucardi
- Yellow-breasted Crake Laterallus flaviventer
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana
- Red-throated Caracara Ibycter americanus
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Barred Hawk Morphnarchus princeps
- Cocos Booby Sula brewsteri
- Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Cattle Tyrant Machetornis rixosa
- Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Paint-billed Crake Mustelirallus erythrops
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus melanoleucus
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Plumbeous Kite Ictinia plumbea
- Crested Bobwhite Colinus cristatus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Fasciated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma fasciatum
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Esquinas Rainforest Lodge?
January–April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 298 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Esquinas Rainforest Lodge?
406 species, from 134,595 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Esquinas Rainforest Lodge in November?
The most recorded in November: Scarlet-rumped Tanager, Riverside Wren, Yellow-throated Toucan, Rufous-tailed Hummingbird and Spot-crowned Euphonia.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.