If you are planning a birding excursion to Costa Rica, El Toucanet Lodge (located in the "Macizo de la Muerte") is an excellent choice with over 200 bird species listed. If you have your own car (4x4) you can access altitudes from 1,500 meters above sea level to over 3,000 all within Los Santos Forest Reserve and Los Quetzales National Park. If you would prefer not to drive, we can arrange tours with guide and driver. We would be glad to create a custom birding package for you or your group. Contact us at reserve@eltoucanet.com.
•  Cattle Egret

•  Least Grebe

•  Great Blue Heron

•  Plain Chachalaca

•  Black Guan

•  Highland Tinamou

•  Spotted Wood Quail

•  Spotted-Bellied Bodwhite

•  Buffy Crowned Wood-Partridge

•  Turkey Vulture

•  Black Vulture

•  Swaison's Hawk

•  Plumbeous Kite

•  American Swallow-tailed Kite

•  Osprey

•  American Krestel

•  Sharp-shinned Hawk

•  Broad-winded Hawk

•  Gray Hawk

•  Northern Harrier

•  Black-chested Hawk

•  White-tailed Hawk

•  Red-tailed Hawk

•  Band-tailed Pigeon

•  Red-billed Pigeon

•  Short-billed Pigeon

•  Inca Dove

•  Ruddy Pigeon

•  White-tipped Dove

•  Chiriqui Quail-Dove

•  Buff-fronted Quail-Dove

•  White-crowned Parrot

•  Sulfur-winged Parakeet

•  Red-fronted Parrotlet

•  Barred Parakeet
•  Motteled Owl
•  Bare-shanked Screech-Owl
•  Andean Pygmy-Owl
•  Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
•  Squirrel Cuckoo
•  Smooth-billed Ani
Bubulcus ibis
Tachybaptus dominicus
Ardea Herodias
Ortalis vetula
Chamaepetes unicolor
Nothocercus bonapartei
Odontophorus guttatus
Colinus leucopogon
Dendrortyx leucophrys
Cathartes aura
Coragyps atratus
Buteo swainsoni
Ictinia plumbea
Elanoides forficatus
Pandion haliaetus
Falco sparverius
Accipiter stratus
Buteo platypterus
Buteo nitidus
Circus cyaneus
Leucopternis princeps
Buteo albicaudatus
Buteo jamaicensis
Columba fasciata
Columba flavirostris
Columba nigrirostris
Columbina inca
Columba subvinacea
Leptotila verreauxi
Geotrygon chiriquensis
Geotrygon costaricensis
Pionus senilis
Pyrrhura hoffmanni
Touit costaricensis
Bolborhynchus lineola
Ciccaba virgata
Otus clarkii
Glaucidium jardinii
Glaucidium brasilianum
Piaya cayana
Crotophaga ani