Costa Rica · Alajuela Province
San Luis Canopy
379 species and 45,487 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: February–April and December, with up to 181 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Silver-throated TanagerTangara icterocephala
Green HoneycreeperChlorophanes spiza
Emerald TanagerTangara florida
Scarlet-rumped TanagerRamphocelus passerinii
Clay-colored ThrushTurdus grayi
Rufous-tailed HummingbirdAmazilia tzacatl
Common ChlorospingusChlorospingus flavopectus
Blue-grey TanagerThraupis episcopus
Crowned WoodnymphThalurania colombica
Green HermitPhaethornis guy
Bay-headed TanagerTangara gyrola
Palm TanagerThraupis palmarum
Green-crowned BrilliantHeliodoxa jacula
Crimson-collared TanagerRamphocelus sanguinolentusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Camino a la Reserva Alberto Manuel Brenes3 km445 species
- Bajo La Paz, San Ramón4 km380 species
- Bosque Eterno de Los Niños – Poco Sol22 km470 species
- San Luis – Finca Ecológica29 km364 species
- Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde31 km428 species
- Curi-Cancha Refugio de Vida Silvestre32 km415 species
All 379 species recorded here
- Silver-throated Tanager Tangara icterocephala
- Emerald Tanager Tangara florida
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
- Common Chlorospingus Chlorospingus flavopectus
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Scarlet-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii
- Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani
- Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Crimson-collared Tanager Ramphocelus sanguinolentus
- Tawny-capped Euphonia Euphonia anneae
- Green-crowned Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula
- Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
- Speckled Tanager Ixothraupis guttata
- Green Hermit Phaethornis guy
- Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus mexicanus
- Blue-and-gold Tanager Bangsia arcaei
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Slate-throated Whitestart Myioborus miniatus
- Grey-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucophrys
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Collared Trogon Trogon collaris
- Chestnut-capped Brushfinch Arremon brunneinucha
- Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus
- Northern Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes phaeocercus
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Coppery-headed Emerald Microchera cupreiceps
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi
- Blue-and-white Swallow Pygochelidon cyanoleuca
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Black-and-yellow Tanager Chrysothlypis chrysomelas
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Golden-hooded Tanager Stilpnia larvata
- Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus geoffroyi
- Green Thorntail Discosura conversii
- Brown Violetear Colibri delphinae
- Melodious Blackbird Dives dives
- Spotted Barbtail Premnoplex brunnescens
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta
- Spotted Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus erythropygius
- Bicolored Antbird Gymnopithys bicolor
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Dull-mantled Antbird Sipia laemosticta
- White-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucosticta
- Golden-crowned Warbler Basileuterus culicivorus
- White-ruffed Manakin Corapipo altera
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Carmiol's Tanager Chlorothraupis carmioli
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Buff-rumped Warbler Myiothlypis fulvicauda
- Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus fuscater
- Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma
- Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris
- Ruddy Woodcreeper Dendrocincla homochroa
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Chalybura urochrysia
- Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimeti
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Red Tanager Piranga flava
- Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora
- Ocellated Antbird Phaenostictus mcleannani
- Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis
- Mistletoe Tyrannulet Zimmerius parvus
- Northern Nightingale-Wren Microcerculus philomela
- Golden-browed Chlorophonia Chlorophonia callophrys
- Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris
- Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus
- Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti
- Lesser Greenlet Pachysylvia decurtata
- White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
- Red-faced Spinetail Cranioleuca erythrops
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Purplish-backed Quail-Dove Zentrygon lawrencii
- Smoky-brown Woodpecker Leuconotopicus fumigatus
- Stripe-breasted Wren Cantorchilus thoracicus
- White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis
- Torrent Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus aurantiirostris
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- White-tipped Sicklebill Eutoxeres aquila
- Pale-vented Thrush Turdus obsoletus
- Sunbittern Eurypyga helias
- Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- Ochraceous Wren Troglodytes ochraceus
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculatus
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra
- Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanoloxia cyanoides
- Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus
- Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus
- Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens
- Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus
- Yellow-throated Euphonia Euphonia hirundinacea
- Northern Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus
- White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
- Tawny-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus mexicanus
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii
- Snowcap Microchera albocoronata
- Black-faced Solitaire Myadestes melanops
- Rufous Motmot Baryphthengus martii
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Lattice-tailed Trogon Trogon clathratus
- Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens
- Eye-ringed Flatbill Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
- White-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus mystaceus
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Barred Forest Falcon Micrastur ruficollis
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Purple-throated Mountaingem Lampornis calolaemus
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Finsch's Parakeet Psittacara finschi
- Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus cervinigularis
- Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Northern Schiffornis Schiffornis veraepacis
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia Euphonia luteicapilla
- Bare-necked Umbrellabird Cephalopterus glabricollis
- Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor
- Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Sulphur-rumped Myiobius Myiobius sulphureipygius
- Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Slate-colored Grosbeak Saltator grossus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Grey-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps
- Yellow-throated Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus
- Black-eared Warbler Basileuterus melanotis
- Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas
- Olive-backed Euphonia Euphonia gouldi
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Great Tinamou Tinamus major
- Spangle-cheeked Tanager Tangara dowii
- Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- White-throated Thrush Turdus assimilis
- Black Guan Chamaepetes unicolor
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa
- Black-thighed Grosbeak Pheucticus tibialis
- Cocoa Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus susurrans
- Blue-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia hoffmanni
- Cabanis's Wren Cantorchilus modestus
- Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus
- Northern Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola
- Western Woodhaunter Automolus virgatus
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Golden-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes hemichrysus
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Silvery-fronted Tapaculo Scytalopus argentifrons
- Lineated Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla subalaris
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Northern Tropical Pewee Contopus bogotensis
- Mountain Elaenia Elaenia frantzii
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Lesser Violetear Colibri cyanotus
- Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae
- Tiny Hawk Microspizias superciliosus
- Bay Wren Cantorchilus nigricapillus
- Mountain Thrush Turdus plebejus
- White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons
- Brown-capped Vireo Vireo leucophrys
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
- Tawny-faced Gnatwren Microbates cinereiventris
- Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia variegaticeps
- Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus
- Spotted Antbird Hylophylax naevioides
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus
- Fasciated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma fasciatum
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Amazonian Black-throated Trogon Trogon rufus
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia
- Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Phaeochroa cuvierii
- Sooty-faced Finch Arremon crassirostris
- Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea
- Lesson's Motmot Momotus lessonii
- White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus
- Barred Hawk Morphnarchus princeps
- Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Zentrygon costaricensis
- Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Rufous-winged Tanager Tangara lavinia
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Zeledon's Antbird Hafferia zeledoni
- Prong-billed Barbet Semnornis frantzii
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina
- Trilling Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aeneus
- Brown-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus pusillus
- Scaled Antpitta Grallaria guatimalensis
- Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae
- White-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio leucothorax
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- Resplendent Quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- White-collared Manakin Manacus candei
- Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
- Rufous-and-white Wren Thryophilus rufalbus
- Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutila
- Rufous-winged Woodpecker Piculus simplex
- Streak-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus striaticeps
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Collared Aracari Pteroglossus torquatus
- Rufous Piha Lipaugus unirufus
- Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena
- Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis
- Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana
- White-bellied Mountaingem Lampornis hemileucus
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Checker-throated Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla fulviventris
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- White-vented Euphonia Euphonia minuta
- Azure-hooded Jay Cyanolyca cucullata
- Green-fronted Lancebill Doryfera ludovicae
- Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava
- Red-fronted Parrotlet Touit costaricensis
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Grey-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis
- Short-tailed Nighthawk Lurocalis semitorquatus
- Keel-billed Motmot Electron carinatum
- Ruddy Treerunner Margarornis rubiginosus
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Terenotriccus erythrurus
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri
- Russet-naped Wood Rail Aramides albiventris
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Great Curassow Crax rubra
- Slaty-headed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus sylvia
- Sepia-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon amaurocephalus
- Long-tailed Tyrant Colonia colonus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Grey-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delattrii
- Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui
- White-throated Flycatcher Empidonax albigularis
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Lovely Cotinga Cotinga amabilis
- White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris
- White-eared Ground Sparrow Melozone leucotis
- Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti
- White-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax formosus
- Grey-rumped Swift Chaetura cinereiventris
- Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
- Golden-crowned Spadebill Platyrinchus coronatus
- Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum nigriceps
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Broad-billed Motmot Electron platyrhynchum
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Black-faced Grosbeak Caryothraustes poliogaster
- Red-headed Barbet Eubucco bourcierii
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Black-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus leucolaemus
- Black-crowned Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- White-whiskered Puffbird Malacoptila panamensis
- Black-faced Antthrush Formicarius analis
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Yellow-headed Caracara Daptrius chimachima
- Magenta-throated Woodstar Philodice bryantae
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Song Wren Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus
- Townsend's Warbler Setophaga townsendi
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Black-headed Antthrush Formicarius nigricapillus
- Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
- Green Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius pulchellus
- Strong-billed Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus
- Collared Whitestart Myioborus torquatus
- Bare-crowned Antbird Gymnocichla nudiceps
- Plumbeous Kite Ictinia plumbea
- Great Potoo Nyctibius grandis
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
- American Black Swift Cypseloides niger
- Scarlet Macaw Ara macao
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Yellow-eared Toucanet Selenidera spectabilis
- Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus
- Mealy Amazon Amazona farinosa
- Red-breasted Meadowlark Leistes militaris
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Black-throated Wren Pheugopedius atrogularis
- Chiriqui Quail-Dove Zentrygon chiriquensis
- Semiplumbeous Hawk Leucopternis semiplumbeus
- Bare-shanked Screech Owl Megascops clarkii
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Olivaceous Piculet Picumnus olivaceus
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Plain-capped Starthroat Heliomaster constantii
- Grey-chested Dove Leptotila cassinii
- Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
- Olive-throated Parakeet Eupsittula nana
- White-naped Brushfinch Atlapetes albinucha
- Thicket Antpitta Myrmothera dives
- Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at San Luis Canopy?
February–April and December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 181 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at San Luis Canopy?
379 species, from 45,487 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at San Luis Canopy in November?
The most recorded in November: Silver-throated Tanager, Green Honeycreeper, Emerald Tanager, Scarlet-rumped Tanager and Clay-colored Thrush.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.