Birds of the La Paz Waterfall Garden

Birds of the vicinity of the La Paz Waterfall Garden in the montane forests and premontane forests on the east slope of the Poas Volcano. This list is derived from two visits to the Garden property in 2002 and 2003 by the Henderson Birding group. An asterisk is shown for each year that a species was encountered, out of a total of two trips. List updated January 9, 2004.

Barred (black-chested) hawk*
Azure-hooded jay*
Broad-winged hawk*
American dipper*
Red-billed pigeon**
House wren**
Ruddy pigeon*
Gray-breasted wood-wren*
Common ground-dove*
Clay-colored robin**
Groove-billed ani*
Black-faced solitaire*
White-collared swift*
Slaty-backed nightingale-thrush**
Vaux's swift*
Yellow-throated vireo*
Green hermit**
Bananaquit**
Green-fronted lancebill*
Black-and-white warbler*
Violet sabrewing**
Golden-winged warbler*
Brown violet-ear*
Tennessee warbler**
Green violet-ear*
Chestnut-sided warbler*
Green thorntail**
Wilson's warbler**
Rufous-tailed humminbird**
Slate-throated redstart**
Black-bellied hummingbird**
Three-striped warbler**
Coppery-headed emerald**
White-bellied mountaingem**
Bronzed cowbird*
Purple-throated mountaingem**
Great-tailed grackle**
Green-crowned brilliant**
Baltimore oriole**
Magnificent hummingbird**
Magenta-throated woodstar**
Tawn-capped euphonia*
Scintillant hummingbird*
Silver-throated tanager**
Golden-hooded tanager*
Red-headed barbet*
Spangled-cheeked tanager**
Prong-billed barbet**
Blue-gray tanager**
Wedge-billed woodcreeper*
Palm tanager*
Spotted woodcreeper*
Passerini's tanager**
Summer tanager*
Silvery-fronted tapaculo* (h)
Common bush-tanager**
Tropical kingbird**
Buff-throated saltator**
Boat-billed flycatcher*
Grayish saltator*
Social flycatcher**
Rose-breasted grosbeak*
Great kiskadee**
Dark pewee*
Slaty flowerpiercer**
Yellowish flycatcher*
Yellow-thighed finch*
Tufted flycatcher**
Chestnut-capped brush-finch*
Scale-crested pygmy-tyrant*
Sooty-faced finch*
Blue-and-white swallow**
Rufous-collared sparrow**