Site Report: La Virgen del Socorro, Costa Rica
Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus)
White-throated Spadebill (Platyrinchus mystaceus)
Crimson-fronted Parakeet (Psittacara finschi)
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)
Wet Forest Toad (Incilius melanochlorus)
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)
White-flanked Antwren (Myrmotherula axillaris) - Female
Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia)
Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
Bat Falcon (Falco rufigularis)
Common Chlorospingus (Chlorospingus flavopectus)
Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
Click Beetle (Semiotus sp)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)
Yellow Tyrannulet (Capsiempis flaveola)
Bay Wren (Cantorchilus nigricapillus)
Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica) - Juvenile
Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea) - Female
Crevice Weaver (Kukulcania sp)
Tawny-capped Euphonia (Euphonia anneae) - Female
Torrent Tyrannulet (Serpophaga cinerea)
White-ruffed Manakin (Corapipo altera) - Female
Black-and-yellow Tanager (Chrysothlypis chrysomelas) - Female
Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) - Female
Yellow-crowned Euphonia (Euphonia luteicapilla) - Female
Black-headed Saltator (Saltator atriceps)
Northern Schiffornis (Schiffornis veraepacis)
Tiger Longwing (Heliconius hecale)
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Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus)
White-throated Spadebill (Platyrinchus mystaceus)
Crimson-fronted Parakeet (Psittacara finschi)
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)
Wet Forest Toad (Incilius melanochlorus)
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)
White-flanked Antwren (Myrmotherula axillaris) - Female
Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia)
Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
Bat Falcon (Falco rufigularis)
Common Chlorospingus (Chlorospingus flavopectus)
Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
Click Beetle (Semiotus sp)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)
Yellow Tyrannulet (Capsiempis flaveola)
Bay Wren (Cantorchilus nigricapillus)
Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica) - Juvenile
Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea) - Female
Crevice Weaver (Kukulcania sp)
Tawny-capped Euphonia (Euphonia anneae) - Female
Torrent Tyrannulet (Serpophaga cinerea)
White-ruffed Manakin (Corapipo altera) - Female
Black-and-yellow Tanager (Chrysothlypis chrysomelas) - Female
Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) - Female
Yellow-crowned Euphonia (Euphonia luteicapilla) - Female
Black-headed Saltator (Saltator atriceps)
Northern Schiffornis (Schiffornis veraepacis)
Tiger Longwing (Heliconius hecale)
Farms and cloud forest
Visits
- 2023-09-30: We left the heat of La Selva on a trip to higher elevation. The road to our accommodation was mostly fine until we were just about there. Going up a hill, we got stuck on a steep gravelly part. We were able to reverse back down the hill, though. So, we decided to walk the last kilometer. Just then, the daughter of the hotel owner drove by in her 4x4, and we got a ride to the hotel.
- 2023-10-01: Woke up to the sound of chickens. I walked up the road a bit which was full of parrots. After breakfast, we walked with the owner of the hotel to a hidden waterfall. The hike involved walking for a bit in the river.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (85 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(5 records)
Class: Arachnids
(1 record)
- Order: Spiders
(1 record)
- Family: Crevice Weavers
- Crevice Weaver (Kukulcania sp)
Class: Insects
(4 records)
- Order: Beetles
(1 record)
- Family: Click Beetles
- Click Beetle (Semiotus sp)
- Order: Butterflies and Moths
(3 records)
- Family: Brush-footed Butterflies
- Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia)
- Tiger Longwing (Heliconius hecale)
- Family: Milkweed Butterflies
- Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus)
Phylum: Chordates
(80 records)
Class: Amphibians
(1 record)
- Order: Toads and Frogs
(1 record)
- Family: True Toads
- Wet Forest Toad (Incilius melanochlorus)
Class: Birds
(78 records)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Russet-naped Wood-Rail (Aramides albiventris)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(2 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Red-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas flavirostris)
- Short-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas nigrirostris)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (6 records)
- Order: Parrots (3 records)
- Order: Pelicans
(1 record)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Bat Falcon (Falco rufigularis)
- Order: Perching Birds
(59 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
- Bronzed Cowbird (Molothrus aeneus)
- Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
- Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius)
- Family: Bananaquit
- Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
- Family: Dippers
- American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus)
- Family: Manakins
- White-ruffed Manakin (Corapipo altera)
- Family: New World Sparrows
- Orange-billed Sparrow (Arremon aurantiirostris)
- Family: New World Warblers
- Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia)
- Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca)
- Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis)
- Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)
- Slate-throated Redstart (Myioborus miniatus)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)
- Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus)
- Family: Swallows
- Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx ruficollis)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola)
- Black-and-yellow Tanager (Chrysothlypis chrysomelas)
- Black-headed Saltator (Saltator atriceps)
- Blue-gray Tanager (Thraupis episcopus)
- Common Chlorospingus (Chlorospingus flavopectus)
- Crimson-collared Tanager (Ramphocelus sanguinolentus)
- Emerald Tanager (Tangara florida)
- Golden-hooded Tanager (Stilpnia larvata)
- Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza)
- Palm Tanager (Thraupis palmarum)
- Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii)
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis (Dacnis venusta)
- Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus)
- Silver-throated Tanager (Tangara icterocephala)
- Tawny-capped Euphonia (Euphonia anneae)
- Thick-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila funerea)
- Variable Seedeater (Sporophila corvina)
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia (Euphonia luteicapilla)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Clay-colored Thrush (Turdus grayi)
- Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus fuscater)
- Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus)
- Family: Typical Antbirds
- Great Antshrike (Taraba major)
- White-flanked Antwren (Myrmotherula axillaris)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens)
- Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher (Myiarchus tuberculifer)
- Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)
- Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
- Northern Schiffornis (Schiffornis veraepacis)
- Northern Tropical Pewee (Contopus bogotensis)
- Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)
- Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)
- Torrent Tyrannulet (Serpophaga cinerea)
- Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus)
- Tufted Flycatcher (Mitrephanes phaeocercus)
- White-throated Spadebill (Platyrinchus mystaceus)
- Yellow Tyrannulet (Capsiempis flaveola)
- Family: Wrens
- Bay Wren (Cantorchilus nigricapillus)
- Gray-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina leucophrys)
- White-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(2 records)
- Family: Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows
- Crested Guan (Penelope purpurascens)
- Gray-headed Chachalaca (Ortalis cinereiceps)
- Order: Vultures
(1 record)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides (2 records)
Class: Mammals
(1 record)
- Order: Rodents
(1 record)
- Family: Squirrels
- Neotropical Red Squirrel (Sciurus granatensis)