Bird Watching Vacation Tour: Birding in Costa Rica

 Bird peak activity is early in the morning and evening, so that's the proper time to make a tour for Bird watching & Birding in Costa Rica tropical rainforest, and because of its more than 895 bird species, it provides full range of stunning colors as well as some of the most beautiful and bizarre sounds in the natural world that will make your Costa Rica vacation truly unforgettable.

Bird Watching Tour
Location: Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica. Hotel Los Lagos
Departure schedule: 5:00 am. || Duration: 3 h
Includes: Transportation, professional bilingual bird watching guide with telescope, coffee and light meal.
Recommendations: Light clothing, bug repellent, binoculars and camera with optical zoom.
Price: USD $55ºº per person. || Tour Reservation:
*Please hold bird watching etiquette, that includes promoting the welfare of birds and their environment, and keeping back from bird nests and nesting colonies.

Bird Watching Tour: Green Heron (Butorides virescens). Bird Watching Tour: Ringed Kingfisher (Ceryle torquata). Bird Watching Tour: Wading scene showing Jabirus, Great Egrets, Ducks and White Ibises. Bird Watching Tour: Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza). Bird Watching Tour: Broad-Winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus). Bird Watching Tour: Wading scene showing Jabirus, Roseate Spoonbills and Great Egrets. Bird Watching Tour: Neotropic Cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) group. Bird Watching Tour: a Mealy Parrot (Amazona farinosa). Bird Watching Tour: Violaceous Trogon (Trogon violaceus). Bird Watching Tour: Roseate Spoonbills (Ajaia ajaja) and a Great Egret (Casmerodius albus). Bird Watching Tour: Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga).

 Birds are most active early in the morning and become active again as the day cools into evening. Join us for this walk at Arenal Volcano slopes surrounding rainforest, and enjoy an amazing of tropical bird colorful display. You are likely to see the Keel-billed (Rainbow-billed) & Chestnut-mandibled toucans, parrots, the Great Curassow, oropendolas, kingfishers, woodpeckers, tanagers (like the Golden-hooded, the Bay-headed, Blue-gray or the Scarlet-rumped) and honeycreepers (such that the Green or the Red-legged Honeycreeper). We can tailor the tour according to your bird watching and birding skills or desires. The early Bird Watching walks tour includes coffee and a light meal pack.

 Our specialized bird watching guide will bring optical equipment as binoculars and telescope. The tour will be made along the better trails available according to the guide experience and knowledge of the zone, as well as the bird behavioral season; and will give you information and facts about the bird sights achieved.

 Wetlands offers an astounding as well as fascinating habitat for aquatic birds, because of abundance of fish, mollusk, crustaceans, insects and much others spineless animals. Roseate Spoonbills sweeps the bottom with its specialized beak, assisting itself with its long and thin legs, in search of crustaceans; as well as Great Egrets does for small fishes. While doing this, some amount of fishes run away only to be caught by the Snowy Egret. Green Heron prefers the fishes at the shores. The Ibises feeds on fishes and crustaceans into the bottom mud. Wood Storks frighten fishes with its legs for catching them. Neotropic Cormorants make cooperative fishing, penning fishes with head immersed; and because of its non impermeable feathers, can be seen exposing its wings outspread posing as a "orchestra director" to get dry. Most of wild ducks come from the northern avoiding the winter, and they filter crustaceans and mollusks from mud with its beak.

 The alternate seasonal cycles of flooding and dryness in some wetlands, creates an endless sequence in which the increased rains generates flooding, expanding the fishes habitat and providing them to raise its populations, that in turn attracts the birds because of the food abundance. Although most of this birds are aquatic, there are no wetland birds that cannot resist the temptation of being feed with insect larvae and crustaceans at the shores. A good example of this ecosystem is Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge and its surroundings.

 According to the increasing of the the quantity of people doing bird watching and birding, there is growing concern about the impact of this activity on the birds and their habitat. So, a bird watching etiquette, whose need of settle down and practicing is obvious, is evolving in order to promote the welfare of birds and their natural environment; avoiding stressing the birds by controlled use of photography and video equipment, keeping back from nests and nesting colonies, and respecting general environmental guidelines as well.

Don't forget that after an intense and active tour day you can enjoy relax in the natural hot springs hotel facilities and get relax, health and beauty at our Fangus Spa Resort.