San Gerardo de Dota and Cerro La Muerte

San Gerardo de Dota and Cerro La Muerte

San José, Costa Rica

High-elevation cloud forest corridor famous for quetzals, hummingbirds and mountain bird specialties.

Species you can spot here

Acorn Woodpecker

Melanerpes formicivorus

American Redstart

Setophaga ruticilla

Band-tailed Pigeon

Patagioenas fasciata

Bare-shanked Screech-Owl

Megascops clarkii

Barred Parakeet

Bolborhynchus lineola

Black Guan

Chamaepetes unicolor

Black Vulture

Coragyps atratus

Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher

Phainoptila melanoxantha

Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush

Catharus gracilirostris

Black-capped Flycatcher

Empidonax atriceps

Black-cheeked Warbler

Basileuterus melanogenys

Black-faced Solitaire

Myadestes melanops

Blackburnian Warbler

Setophaga fusca

Buff-fronted Quail-Dove

Zentrygon costaricensis

Buffy Tuftedcheek

Pseudocolaptes lawrencii

Chestnut-capped Brushfinch

Arremon brunneinucha

Chiriqui Quail-Dove

Zentrygon chiriquensis

Collared Redstart

Myioborus torquatus

Collared Trogon

Trogon collaris

Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl

Glaucidium costaricanum

Dusky Nightjar

Antrostomus saturatus

Flame-colored Tanager

Piranga bidentata

Flame-throated Warbler

Oreothlypis gutturalis

Golden-bellied Flycatcher

Myiodynastes hemichrysus

Golden-browed Chlorophonia

Chlorophonia callophrys

Gray-breasted Wood-Wren

Henicorhina leucophrys

Hairy Woodpecker

Dryobates villosus

Large-footed Finch

Pezopetes capitalis

Lesser Violetear

Colibri cyanotus

Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher

Ptiliogonys caudatus

Mistletoe Tyrannulet

Zimmerius parvus

Mountain Elaenia

Elaenia frantzii

Mountain Thrush

Turdus plebejus

Northern Emerald-Toucanet

Aulacorhynchus prasinus

Ochraceous Wren

Troglodytes ochraceus

Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush

Catharus aurantiirostris

Ornate Hawk-Eagle
Ornate Hawk-Eagle

Spizaetus ornatus

Purple-throated Mountain-gem

Lampornis calolaemus

Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

Resplendent Quetzal
Resplendent Quetzal

Pharomachrus mocinno

Ruddy Pigeon

Patagioenas subvinacea

Ruddy Treerunner

Margarornis rubiginosus

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

Cyclarhis gujanensis

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Zonotrichia capensis

Scintillant Hummingbird

Selasphorus scintilla

Short-tailed Hawk

Buteo brachyurus

Silvery-fronted Tapaculo

Scytalopus argentifrons

Slaty Flowerpiercer

Diglossa plumbea

Sooty-capped Chlorospingus

Chlorospingus pileatus

Southern House Wren

Troglodytes musculus

Spot-crowned Woodcreeper

Lepidocolaptes affinis

Spotted Wood-Quail

Odontophorus guttatus

Sulphur-winged Parakeet

Pyrrhura hoffmanni

Talamanca Hummingbird

Eugenes spectabilis

Timberline Wren

Thryorchilus browni

Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura

Unspotted Saw-whet Owl

Aegolius ridgwayi

Volcano Hummingbird

Selasphorus flammula

Volcano Junco

Junco vulcani

White-collared Swift

Streptoprocne zonaris

White-throated Mountain-gem

Lampornis castaneoventris

Wilson's Warbler

Cardellina pusilla

Wrenthrush

Zeledonia coronata

Yellow-billed Cacique

Amblycercus holosericeus

Yellow-thighed Brushfinch

Atlapetes tibialis

Yellow-winged Vireo

Vireo carmioli