Costa Rica in Spring

With an area of less than 20,000 square miles, Costa Rica is the third-smallest nation in Central America. But in proportion to the country’s size, its avifauna, comprising nearly 900 species, is among the richest in the world. For the visiting birder, this modern and politically stable country presents the obvious advantage of compactness combined with excellent hotels and lodges, delicious food, stunning scenery, friendly people, and fantastic birding. Our tour concentrates on the best birding areas, from the oak forests of the Talamanca Highlands with its many endemics and Resplendent Quetzals, to the rich Osa Peninsula in the Pacific lowlands, the stunning cloud forest at Monteverde, and the Caribbean lowlands, where we’ll stay at a resort with very birdy grounds near La Selva Biological Station and Braulio Carrillo National Park. We should see more than 400 species over our 13 days of birding.