Bird AlbumCosta Rica · Puntarenas Province
Villa Lapas
393 species and 120,374 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January–March, with up to 297 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
Scarlet MacawAra macao
Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
Social FlycatcherMyiozetetes similis
Clay-colored ThrushTurdus grayi
Chestnut-backed AntbirdPoliocrania exsul
Yellow-throated ToucanRamphastos ambiguus
Buff-rumped WarblerMyiothlypis fulvicauda
Mangrove WarblerSetophaga petechia
Rufous-tailed HummingbirdAmazilia tzacatl
Common Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum cinereum
Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanicaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- PN Carara-Entrada principal [senderos Quebrada Bonita y Universal]3 km427 species
- Tárcoles – Tour en Bote3 km428 species
- PN Carara – Sendero La Meandrica5 km408 species
- Cerro Lodge6 km376 species
- Macaw Lodge11 km365 species
- Bajo La Paz, San Ramón46 km380 species
All 393 species recorded here
- Scarlet Macaw Ara macao
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Grey-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis
- Yellow-throated Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Buff-rumped Warbler Myiothlypis fulvicauda
- Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii
- Scarlet-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii
- Rufous-backed Wren Campylorhynchus capistratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul
- Lesson's Motmot Momotus lessonii
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Yellow-throated Euphonia Euphonia hirundinacea
- Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Golden-hooded Tanager Stilpnia larvata
- Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena
- Lesser Greenlet Pachysylvia decurtata
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Black-hooded Antshrike Thamnophilus bridgesi
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis
- White-whiskered Puffbird Malacoptila panamensis
- Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Phaeochroa cuvierii
- Long-tailed Manakin Chiroxiphia linearis
- Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae
- Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Riverside Wren Cantorchilus semibadius
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Fiery-billed Aracari Pteroglossus frantzii
- Grey-chested Dove Leptotila cassinii
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Black-faced Antthrush Formicarius analis
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Black-headed Trogon Trogon melanocephalus
- Grey-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Rufous-and-white Wren Thryophilus rufalbus
- Cocoa Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus susurrans
- Tropical Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus coronatus
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza
- Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus
- Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanoloxia cyanoides
- Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
- Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris
- Blue-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia hoffmanni
- Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae
- Costa Rican Swift Chaetura fumosa
- Northern Bentbill Oncostoma cinereigulare
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Mealy Amazon Amazona farinosa
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda
- Golden-naped Woodpecker Melanerpes chrysauchen
- White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Orange-collared Manakin Manacus aurantiacus
- Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Rufous-breasted Wren Pheugopedius rutilus
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Sulphur-rumped Myiobius Myiobius sulphureipygius
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia Euphonia luteicapilla
- Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Red-crowned Ant Tanager Habia rubica
- Amazonian Black-throated Trogon Trogon rufus
- Inca Dove Columbina inca
- Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delattrii
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Southern Nightingale-Wren Microcerculus marginatus
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Yellow-headed Caracara Daptrius chimachima
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Northern Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae
- Golden-crowned Spadebill Platyrinchus coronatus
- White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner Automolus exsertus
- Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis
- Spot-crowned Euphonia Euphonia imitans
- Red-capped Manakin Ceratopipra mentalis
- White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Melodious Blackbird Dives dives
- White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
- Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri
- Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Velvety Manakin Lepidothrix velutina
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Eye-ringed Flatbill Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
- Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti
- Trilling Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus
- Black-crowned Tityra Tityra inquisitor
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
- Scrub Euphonia Euphonia affinis
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Great Tinamou Tinamus major
- Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Terenotriccus erythrurus
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Northern Tropical Pewee Contopus bogotensis
- Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola
- Orange-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula canicularis
- Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis
- Charming Hummingbird Polyerata decora
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla anabatina
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
- Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma
- Marbled Wood Quail Odontophorus gujanensis
- Stub-tailed Spadebill Platyrinchus cancrominus
- Mistletoe Tyrannulet Zimmerius parvus
- Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- Baird's Trogon Trogon bairdii
- Cabanis's Wren Cantorchilus modestus
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- Slaty-headed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus sylvia
- Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe
- Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aeneus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea
- Plain-capped Starthroat Heliomaster constantii
- Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana
- Streak-chested Antpitta Hylopezus perspicillatus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Bicolored Antbird Gymnopithys bicolor
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui
- Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Stripe-headed Sparrow Peucaea ruficauda
- White-ruffed Manakin Corapipo altera
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
- Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris
- Fasciated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma fasciatum
- Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- White-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax formosus
- Grey-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps
- Finsch's Parakeet Psittacara finschi
- Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Scaly-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus guatemalensis
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Black-bellied Wren Pheugopedius fasciatoventris
- Great Curassow Crax rubra
- Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Plumbeous Kite Ictinia plumbea
- Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
- Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta
- Streak-backed Oriole Icterus pustulatus
- Cinnamon Becard Pachyramphus cinnamomeus
- White-lored Gnatcatcher Polioptila albiloris
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii
- Panama Flycatcher Myiarchus panamensis
- Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis
- Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis
- White-necked Puffbird Notharchus hyperrhynchus
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis
- Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Pacific Screech Owl Megascops cooperi
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Olivaceous Piculet Picumnus olivaceus
- Grey-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Green Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius pulchellus
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Sunbittern Eurypyga helias
- Little Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura typica
- Grey-cowled Wood Rail Aramides cajaneus
- Northern Schiffornis Schiffornis veraepacis
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- Rufous Piha Lipaugus unirufus
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet Tyrannulus elatus
- Nutting's Flycatcher Myiarchus nuttingi
- Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus
- Striped Owl Asio clamator
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas
- Double-striped Thick-knee Hesperoburhinus bistriatus
- Crested Owl Lophostrix cristata
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris
- Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus
- Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta
- Ruddy Woodcreeper Dendrocincla homochroa
- Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
- Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra
- Mottled Owl Strix virgata
- Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes
- Banded Wren Thryophilus pleurostictus
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- White-crested Coquette Lophornis adorabilis
- White-vented Euphonia Euphonia minuta
- Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- American Black Swift Cypseloides niger
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Short-tailed Nighthawk Lurocalis semitorquatus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Mangrove Hummingbird Chrysuronia boucardi
- Barred Forest Falcon Micrastur ruficollis
- Tropical Screech Owl Megascops choliba
- Northern Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus arenarum
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Spotted Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus erythropygius
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
- Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea
- Rufous-winged Woodpecker Piculus simplex
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Spot-fronted Swift Cypseloides cherriei
- Lesser Ground Cuckoo Morococcyx erythropygus
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Yellow-billed Cotinga Carpodectes antoniae
- Pale-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albescens
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi
- Black-striped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus
- Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculatus
- Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura
- Red-breasted Meadowlark Leistes militaris
- Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus uropygialis
- White-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio leucothorax
- Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutila
- Mangrove Vireo Vireo pallens
- Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola
- Collared Plover Anarhynchus collaris
- Spot-bellied Bobwhite Colinus leucopogon
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Turquoise Cotinga Cotinga ridgwayi
- Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis
- Bare-crowned Antbird Gymnocichla nudiceps
- Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimeti
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Cocos Booby Sula brewsteri
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Spot-breasted Oriole Icterus pectoralis
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- White-tipped Sicklebill Eutoxeres aquila
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
- Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Blue-and-white Swallow Pygochelidon cyanoleuca
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Villa Lapas?
January–March. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 297 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Villa Lapas?
393 species, from 120,374 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Villa Lapas in November?
The most recorded in November: Summer Tanager, Scarlet Macaw, Tropical Kingbird, Northern Waterthrush and Great Kiskadee.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.