Birds found
during
FONT Birding & Nature Tours
in southern Costa Rica
and adjacent Panana
1991 thru 2009
List compiled by Armas Hill
PHOTOGRAPH AT RIGHT: a
SILVER-THROATED TANAGER
(photo by Doris Potter)
681 species of birds have cumulatively been found during 27 FONT birding & nature tours in Costa Rica.
Included in those 681 species, are 493 that have been
found during FONT tours in southern Costa Rica
& adjacent western Panama,
and they are listed below.
(Some additional species have also been found in western Panama during FONT
Panama tours.)
The number, to the right of the English bird name, indicates the number of
FONT tours
during which the bird has been found (out of 27).
Not all tours have been to the same areas, so individual tour-lists have varied.
In the following list, the latest taxonomy is incorporated noting subspecies in
Costa Rica.
Codes:
(t): a globally threatened or rare species,
designated by Birdlife International
(t1): critical
(t2): endangered
(t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally
(i): introduced species
(CRe): endemic in Costa Rica
(CRr): rare in Costa Rica
sCR: during FONT tours in soutern Costa Rica
wP: during FONT tours in western Panama (Chiriqui)
Links:
Cumulative
List of Birds during FONT Costa Rica Tours (with
photos)
Mammals
during FONT Tours in Central America
Butterflies
in Central America
Previous
Costa Rica Tour Highlights
Upcoming
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Directory of Photos in this Website

Birds:
- Great Tinamou ______ sCR 23
Tinamus major fuscipennis
- Little Tinamou ______ sCR 12
Crypturellus soui modestus
- Gray-headed Chachalaca ______ sCR 15
Ortalis cinereiceps (monotypic)
- Crested Guan ______ sCR
16
Penelope purpurascens aequatorialis
- Black Guan (nt) ______ sCR 11 (total range limited
to Costa Rica & western Panama)
Chamaepetes unicolor (monotypic)
- Great Curassow (nt) ______ sCR 7
Crax r. rubra
- Spotted Wood Quail ______ sCR 3
Odontophorus guttatus
- Marbled Wood Quail ______ sCR 6
Odontophorus gujanensis
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck ______ sCR wP
15
Dendrocygna a. autumnalis
- Blue-winged Teal ______ sCR wP 18
Anas discors
(monotypic)
- Ring-necked Duck ______ sCR 1
Aythya collaris
(monotypic)
- Masked Duck ______ sCR 5
Nomoyx dominicus
(monotypic, and the single member of its
genus)
- Pied-billed Grebe ______ sCR 8
Podilymbus p. podiceps
- Least Grebe ______ sCR wP 12
Tachybaptus (formerly Podiceps) dominicus brachypterus
- Wood Stork ______ sCR wP 18
Myceteria americana
(monotypic)
- White Ibis ______ sCR wP 21
Eudocimus albus
(monotypic)
- Cattle Egret ______ sCR wP 27
Bublcus i. ibis
- Green Heron ______ sCR wP 27
(was at one time
considered conspecific with the nearly cosmopolitan Striated Heron,
and
was then called Green-backed Heron)
Butorides v. virescens
- Little Blue Heron ______ sCR wP 27
Egretta caerulea (monotypic)
- Tricolored Heron ______ sCR 21 (a former name was
Louisiana Heron)
Egretta tricolor ruficollis
- Snowy Egret ______ sCR wP 26
Egretta t. thula
- Great Egret ______ sCR wP 27
Ardea (formerly Casmerodius or Egretta) alba egretta
- Great Blue Heron ______ sCR wP 22
Ardea h. herodias
- Bare-throated Tiger-Heron ______ sCR 16
Tigrisoma mexicanum (monotypic)
- Black-crowned Night-Heron ______ sCR wP 12
Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli
- Boat-billed Heron ______ N S H 18
Cochlearius cochlearius
(the single member of its genus) (2 subspecies
in Costa Rica)
Cochlearius cochlearius panamensis (south CR)
- Magnificent Frigatebird ______ N S wP 25
Fregata magnificens
(now said to be monotypic)
- Brown Pelican ______ N S wP 25
Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Brown Booby ______ N S 6
Sula l. leucogaster
- Neotropic Cormorant ______ N S wP 23 (was called Olivaceous Cormorant)
Phalacrocorax brasilianus (2 subspecies in Costa Rica)
Phalacrocorax b. brasilianus (south CR)
- Anhinga _____ wP
Anhinga anhinga
- Turkey Vulture ______ N S H wP 27
Cathartes a. aura (another subspecies, C. a. meridionalis, from
central North America, migrates
thru Costa Rica, sometimes in large flocks)