Site Report: Reserva Monteverde
Monteverde Suspension Bridge
Collared Redstart (Myioborus torquatus)
Black-faced Solitaire (Myadestes melanops)
Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor)
Yellowish Flycatcher (Empidonax flavescens)
Slate-throated Redstart (Myioborus miniatus)
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird (Eupherusa eximia) - Male
Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher (Phainoptila melanoxantha)
Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) - Female
Purple-throated Mountain-gem (Lampornis calolaemus)
Ruddy Treerunner (Margarornis rubiginosus)
Costa Rican Warbler (Basileuterus melanotis)
Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) - Male
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Monteverde Suspension Bridge
Collared Redstart (Myioborus torquatus)
Black-faced Solitaire (Myadestes melanops)
Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor)
Yellowish Flycatcher (Empidonax flavescens)
Slate-throated Redstart (Myioborus miniatus)
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird (Eupherusa eximia) - Male
Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher (Phainoptila melanoxantha)
Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) - Female
Purple-throated Mountain-gem (Lampornis calolaemus)
Ruddy Treerunner (Margarornis rubiginosus)
Costa Rican Warbler (Basileuterus melanotis)
Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) - Male
A private cloud forest reserve with many trails and a famous canopy suspension bridge.
Visits
- 2009-02-21: Our first morning in Santa Elena, we hoped to get an early start in Reserva Monteverde. The first bus passing by, however, did not stop for us. I was getting the distinct impression that people around here do not like tourists. Anyway, we got into the next bus which went directly to the park. Our trips into the cloud forests tended to coincide with poor weather, and Monteverde was no exception. We walked pretty much every trail in the park, half of the time in wind and rain.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (18 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(18 records)
Class: Birds
(18 records)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (2 records)
- Order: Perching Birds (14 records)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Spotted Barbtail (Premnoplex brunnescens)
- Ruddy Treerunner (Margarornis rubiginosus)
- Family: Silky-flycatchers
- Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher (Phainoptila melanoxantha)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Common Chlorospingus (Chlorospingus flavopectus)
- Slaty Flowerpiercer (Diglossa plumbea)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Black-faced Solitaire (Myadestes melanops)
- Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus fuscater)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Yellowish Flycatcher (Empidonax flavescens)
- Family: Wrens
- Gray-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina leucophrys)
- Order: Trogons
(1 record)
- Family: Trogons
- Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(1 record)
- Family: Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows
- Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor)