Birds of the Carara Biological Reserve,
Tarcol Lodge and Villa Lapas Lodge, Costa Rica

Checklist based on eleven Henderson birding tours to the Carara Biological Reserve, Tarcol Lodge estuary, and Villa Lapas Lodge in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. One asterisk is shown for each trip on which a species was observed, out of a total of eleven trips. List updated February 9, 2006.

Great tinamou****
Little tinamou***
Least grebe****
Pied-billed grebe*
Brown pelican***** **
Neotropic cormorant***** **
Anhinga***** ****
Magnificant frigatebird***** ****
Great blue heron***** *****
Green heron***** *****
Little blue heron***** ***** *
Great egret***** *****
Snowy egret***** ***
Cattle egret***** ***
Tricolored heron***** ***
Reddish egret**
Yellow-crowned night-heron***** ***
Black-crowned night-heron***
Bare-throated tiger-heron***** *
Boat-billed heron***** **
Wood stork***** *****
White ibis***** **
Roseate spoonbill***** **
Black-bellied whistling-duck*****
King vulture*****
Turkey vulture***** ***
Black vulture***** **
White-tailed kite**
Plumbeous kite**
Swallow-tailed kite*
Hook-billed kite*
Double-toothed kite*****
Broad-winged hawk***
Roadside hawk**
White hawk*
Crane hawk*
Gray hawk***** ***
Short-tailed hawk****
Zone-tailed hawk***
Mangrove black-hawk***** *
Osprey***** ***
Yellow-headed caracara***** *
Crested caracara***** ***
Laughing falcon****
Collared forest-falcon***
Peregrine falcon**
Gray-necked wood-rail*
Rufous-necked wood-rail*
Crested guan***** *
Gray-headed chachalaca*****
Marbled wood-quail*
Northern jacana***** **
Black-bellied plover***** *
Semipalmated plover*****
Wilson's plover***
Collared plover*
Purple gallinule*****
Stilt sandpiper*
Whimbrel***** **
Lesser yellowlegs***
Greater yellowlegs*
Solitary sandpiper*
Spotted sandpiper***** ***
Semipalmated sandpiper****
White-rumped sandpiper*
Willet***** ****
Ruddy turnstone***** *
Short-billed dowitcher***
Sanderling***** *
Western sandpiper****
Least sandpiper*****
Dunlin**
Black-necked stilt***** ***
Laughing gull***** ***
Royal tern******
Sandwich tern******
Gull-billed tern**
Elegant tern*
Black skimmer****
Rock pigeon****
Red-billed pigeon****
Short-billed pigeon***** ****
Pale-vented pigeon**
Inca dove***** *
White-winged dove****
Gray-chested dove*****
Common ground-dove****
Ruddy ground-dove***** *****
Blue ground-dove***** ***
White-tipped dove***** *****
Band-tailed pigeon*
Ruddy quail-dove**
Scarlet macaw***** *****
Orange-chinned parakeet***** **
Crimson-fronted parakeet***** *
Orange-fronted parakeet****
White-crowned parrot****
Yellow-naped parrot***** ***
Red-lored parrot****
Mealy amazon***** **
Brown-hooded parrot****
White-fronted parrot*
Squirrel cuckoo***** **
Groove-billed ani***** ***
Striped cuckoo***
Vaux's swift*
White-collared swift***
Costa Rican swift***** *
Greater swallow-tailed swift*
Pauraque*****
Short -tailed nighthawk**
Lesser nighthawk***
Pacific screech-owl***
Ferruginous pygmy-owl****
Black-and-white owl****
Spectacled owl*
Band-tailed barbthroat*
Long-billed hermit***** *
Bronzy hermit**
Stripe-throated (little) hermit***
Scaly-breasted hummingbird***** **
Violet sabrewing***
Green-breasted mango***** *
Blue-throated goldentail***** ***
Canivet's (fork-tailed) emerald*
Steely-vented hummigbird*****
Rufous-tailed hummingbird***** ****
Blue-tailed hummingbird*
Cinnamon hummingbird**
Long-billed starthroat***
Purple-crowned fairy*
Beryl-crowned hummingbird***
White-necked jacobin*
Plain-capped starthroat**
Ruby-throated hummingbird**
Mangrove hummingbird*
Slaty-tailed trogon***** *
Baird's trogon***** **
Black-headed trogon***** ***
Black-throated trogon*****
Violaceous trogon***** ****
Ringed kingfisher***** ***
Belted kingfisher***
Green kingfisher*****
Amazon kingfisher*****
Pygmy kingfisher*
Rufous-tailed jacamar***** **
Turquoise-browed motmot***** *
White-whiskered puffbird***
Blue-crowned motmot****
Fiery-billed aracari****
Chestnut-mandibled toucan***** *
Olivaceous piculet****
Pale-billed woodpecker***** *****
Lineated woodpecker***
Hoffmann's woodpecker*****
Red-crowned woodpecker****
Golden-naped woodpecker **
Cinnamon woodpecker*
Tawny-winged woodcreeper***
Black-striped woodcreeper**
Wedge-billed woodcreeper***** **
Cocoa (buff-throated) woodcreeper***** ****
Streaked-headed woodcreeper***** ****
Northern barred woodcreeper*
Plain xenops***** **
Spectacled antpitta**
Streak-chested antpitta****
Black-headed antthrush*
Black-faced antthrush*****
Dusky antbird***** *
Great antshrike**
Barred antshrike***** **
Black-hooded antshrike***** ****
Dotted-winged antwren***** ****
Chestnut-backed antbird***** ***
Bicolored antbird*
Barred antshrike*****
Slaty antwren*
Red-capped manakin****
Blue-crowned manakin**
Long-tailed manakin*****
Orange-collared manakin***** ****
Bright-rumped attila***** **
Rufous piha**
White-winged becard*****
Rose-throated becard***** **
Cinnamon becard**
Yellow-billed cotinga**
Three-wattled bellbird***** *
Masked tityra*****
Black-crowned tityra***** *
Olive-striped flycatcher*
Nutting's flycatcher**
Scissor-tailed flycatcher***** *
Mistletoe tyrannulet*
Tropical kingbird***** ****
Panama flycatcher***
Piratic flycatcher*
Sulphur-bellied flycatcher*
Sulphur-rumped flycatcher*
Yellow-bellied flycatcher*
Streaked flycatcher***** **
Boat-billed flycatcher*****
Ochre-bellied flycatcher*****
Great crested flycatcher*****
Great kiskadee***** *****
Dusky-capped flycatcher***** ***
Gray-capped flycatcher****
Royal flycatcher*
Stub-tailed spadebill*
Common tody-flycatcher***** ***
Slate-headed tody-flycatcher***** *
Northern bentbill***** ***
Scrub flycatcher****
Southern beardless tyrannulet****
Yellow-bellied elaenia****
Yellow-olive flycatcher***** **
Ruddy-tailed flycatcher*
Social flycatcher*****
Brown-crested flycatcher**
Thrush-like schiffornis*
Yellow tyrannulet*
Least flycatcher*
Acadian/alder flycatcher*
Cliff swallow***
Barn swallow***** ***
Mangrove swallow***** *****
Gray-breasted martin****
S. rough-winged swallow****
N. rough-winged swallow****
Brown jay***** **
White-throated magpie-jay**
Riverside wren****
Rufous-and-white wren***** *
Rufous-naped wren***** ****
Black-bellied wren***** ***
Rufous-breasted wren***** **
Plain wren*****
House wren***
Whistling wren**
Long-billed gnatwren***
Tropical gnatcatcher***** **
Green shrike-vireo*****
Yellow-throated vireo***** *
Red-eyed vireo***
Yellow-green vireo**
Philadelphia vireo***** *
Mangrove vireo**
Lesser greenlet***** ***
Tawny-crowned greenlet***
Rufous-browed peppershrike*
Bananaquit**
Buff-rumped warbler*
Rufous-capped warbler***
Tropical parula*
Black-and-white warbler****
Worm-eating warbler**
Black-and-white warbler*
Prothonotary warbler*****
Tennessee warbler***** ****
Yellow warbler***** ****
Mangrove warbler***
Golden-winged warbler**
Chestnut-sided warbler***** ***
Kentucky warbler**
American redstart****
Louisiana waterthrush**
Northern waterthrush***** *
Gray-crowned yellowthroat*
Great-tailed grackle***** *****
Red-winged blackbird**
Orchard oriole***
Baltimore oriole***** ***** *
Montezuma oropendola*
Bronzed cowbird*
Melodius blackbird*
Clay-colored robin***** *
Wood thrush***
Swainson's thrush**
Long-billed gnatwren***
Scrub euphonia**
Blue-hooded euphonia*
Yellow-crowned euphonia***** *
Thick-billed euphonia***** *
Green honeycreeper***
Red-legged honeycreeper***** **
Shining honeycreeper*
Golden-hooded tanager****
Bay-headed tanager*
Blue-gray tanager***** ***
Palm tanager***** **
White-shouldered tanager***** ****
White-lined tanager*
Cherrie's tanager***** **
Summer tanager***** ****
Western tanager***
Scarlet tanager*
Red-crowned ant-tanager***
Gray-headed tanager*****
White-throated shrike-tanager*
Blue dacnis*
Buff-throated saltator****
Grayish saltator**
Rose-breasted grosbeak****
Blue-black grosbeak***** ***
Indigo bunting*
White-collared seedeater**
Variable seedeater**
Blue-black grassquit****
Yellow-faced grassquit*
Stripe-headed sparrow***
Black-striped sparrow**
Orange-billed sparrow****
Olive sparrow*
House sparrow*