Hummingbirds, Bird Watching & Birding Paradise at Arenal Costa Rica!

 Bird watching and Birding Costa Rica tropical rainforest is like a visit to the bird Eden, with so many habitats, bird colors, shapes and songs, all within reach of the hand will make your Costa Rica vacation an unforgettable bird watching experience!

Bird Watching
Location: Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica. Hotel Los Lagos
Where to enjoy:
Hotel Los Lagos gardens and trails.
Rain Forest Restaurant specially for the Hummingbird & bird feeder visitors.
Arenal Volcano Vantage Point for bird sighting at Arenal Volcano slopes surrounding rainforest.
Bird Watching Tour for more diverse bird habitats in Costa Rica.
Biodiversity abundance: More than 895 bird species have been recorded in Costa Rica.
Recommendations: Light clothing, bug repellent, binoculars and camera with zoom.
*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: Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza). Bird Watching: Cherrie's Tanager (Ramphocelus costaricensis). Bird Watching: The Clay-colored Robin (Turdus grayi) is the National Bird of COSTA RICA. Bird Watching: Violaceous Trogon (Trogon violaceus). Bird Watching: Hummingbird at Rainforest Restaurant. Bird Watching: Hummingbird at Rainforest Restaurant. Bird Watching: Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus). Bird Watching: Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani). Bird Watching: White-necked Jacobin Hummingbird (Florisuga mellivora). Bird Watching: Red-footed Plumeleteer Hummingbird (Chlalybura urochrysia). Bird Watching: Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani).

 Expression of the male hunting ancestral instinct and relic of human evolution, as considered by Nobel laureate ethologist Niko Tinbergen, Bird Watching and Birding is one of the most fascinating activity at nature, that inevitably raises biodiversity appreciation, interest and knowledge as well as care and protection on this dinosaurs era remains: the bird and its habitat, including the whole ecosystem with its flora and fauna, without which all the bird species could not exist.

 Bird watching and birding have its paradise in Costa Rica Tropical Rainforest because of its intrinsic extremely high biodiversity. At the Arenal Volcano surrounding forests the Great Curassow can be seen foraging almost times on the ground and sometimes hovering into the trees foliage. Kingfishers, as the largest of America, the Ringed Kingfisher, are found easily on the rivers and springs. You can be wondered about the conspicuous bill of toucans, either the full colored Keel-billed Toucan (also known, more properly, as Rainbow-billed Toucan) or the yellow and purple of Chestnut-mandibled Toucan. The Black-cheeked Woodpecker search for larvae and insects on tree trunks, but also eat fruits. Very soundly and ubiquitous is the The Great Kiskadee calls. Green Honeycreeper feed primarily on fruits, and you can see its sublime green plumage while in any banana bird feeder, as well as the Reg-legged Honeycreeper and the not less charming colorful tanagers like the Golden-hooded, the Bay-headed, Blue-gray or the Cherrie's (Scarlet-rumped) tanager.

One of the most graceful, amusing and charming bird song you can ever hear is the rich call on breeding season of the Costa Rica national bird, the Clay-colored Robin ("yigüiro"). This bird melodies can be enjoyed, widespreadly along the country, at the beginning of the annual rainy season, and that's the reason of the Costa Rican peasant tradition according to which this bird song calls for the rains at April and May.

Very remarkable is the graceful presence of hummingbirds that continually visits the bird feeders arranged specially for them at the Rainforest Restaurant: the White-necked Jacobin Hummingbird or the Red-footed Plumeleteer Hummingbird are examples of this.

 To enjoy bird watching at Costa Rica rainforest near Arenal Volcano area you can be surely impressed with the possibilities at the Hotel los lagos gardens and forest trails as well as the hotel facilities such that Rainforest Restaurant for the Hummingbird and other bird classes, or the Arenal Volcano Vantage Point rainforest surroundings. If you have the need, there is the possibility to obtain some bird watching and photography equipment at La Fortuna village. And for a more natural approach and different habitats is available the Bird Watching Tour with specialized guides with bird watching equipment as telescope and binoculars.

 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.