Birds of Manuel Antonio National Park,
Quepos, and Surrounding Area, Including
Rancho Casa Grande and La Cusinga Lodge

Checklist based on six Henderson birding trips to Manuel Antonio National Park, La Cusinga Lodge, Quepos and the Dominical vicinity in 1989, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2003, and 2004. One asterisk is shown for each trip on which a species was encountered, out of a total of six trips. Updated February 15, 2004.

Great tinamou**
Little tinamou*****
Least grebe**
Anhinga*
Brown pelican*****
Neotropic cormorant**
Brown booby****
Magnificent frigatebird***** *
Yellow-crowned n.heron ****
Cattle egret****
Green heron****
Tricolored heron***
Little blue heron***
Great blue heron**
Bare-throated tiger-heron **
Snowy egret****
Great egret****
Wood stork***
Turkey vulture***** *
Black vulture*****
King vulture**
White ibis****
Roseate spoonbill***
Black-bellied whistling-duck*
Osprey****
Double-toothed kite*
White-tailed kite****
Swallow-tailed kite*
Gray hawk****
Roadside hawk*****
Broad-winged hawk**
Mangrove black-hawk***
Short-tailed hawk***
White hawk*
Northern crested caracara****
Yellow-headed caracara***
Laughing falcon***
Peregrine falcon*
Purple gallinule**
Northern jacana*****
Black-necked stilt***
Southern lapwing*
Killdeer***
Lesser yellowlegs*
Solitary sandpiper*
Willet*****
Spotted sandpiper*****
Wandering tattler*
Ruddy turnstone*
Whimbrel***
Sanderling**
Gray-headed chachalaca**
Gray-necked wood-rail**
Laughing gull****
Franklin's gull*
Royal tern****
Sandwich tern**
Rock pigeon****
Scaled pigeon*
Pale-vented pigeon***** *
Common ground-dove**
Ruddy ground-dove***** *
Inca dove****
Blue ground-dove**
White-tipped dove***** *
Red-billed pigeon***
Short-billed pigeon**
Orange-fronted parakeet*
Orange-chinned parakeet***
White-crowned parrot*****
Red-lored parrot****
Mealy parrot*
Brown-hooded parrot**
Mangrove cuckoo*
Squirrel cuckoo**
Striped cuckoo**
Groove-billed ani******
Smooth-billed ani**
Striped owl**
Crested owl*
Spectacled owl*
Ferruginous pygmy-owl*
Common pauraque****
Common potoo**
Chuck-will's widow*
Lesser nighthawk**
Rufous nightjar*
Whippoorwill*
Spot-fronted swift*
White-collared swift**
Costa Rican swift**
Lesser swallow-tailed swift**
Stripe-throated (little) hermit***
Bronzy hermit*
Long-billed hermit*
White-necked jacobin*
Green-breasted mango*
Blue-throated goldentail**
Beryl-crowned hummingbird***
Rufous-tailed hummingbird*****
Violet-crowned woodnymph**
Mangrove hummingbird**
Purple-crowned fairy**
Long-billed starthroat**
Slaty-tailed trogon**
Black-throated trogon*
Baird's trogon**
Violaceous trogon*
Ringed kingfisher****
Belted kingfisher***
Amazon kingfisher*****
Green kingfisher***
Blue-crowned motmot****
White-necked puffbird***
Fiery-billed aracari***
Chestnut-mandibled toucan***
Golden-naped woodpecker*****
Red-crowned woodpecker***** *
Lineated woodpecker****
Pale-billed woodpecker****
Hoffmann's woodpecker***
Olivaceous piculet*
Cocoa woodcreeper****
Tawny-winged woodcreeper*
Wedge-billed woodcreeper*
Streak-headed woodcreeper*
Plain xenops**
Great antshrike**
Black-hooded antshrike*****
Dotted-winged antwren**
Chestnut-backed antbird***
Masked tityra****
Black-crowned tityra***
Rufous piha***
Three-wattled bellbird**
Blue-crowned manakin**
Orange-collared manakin*
White-ruffed manakin*
Red-capped manakin**
Tropical pewee*
Panama flycatcher*
Scissor-tailed flycatcher*****
Tropical kingbird*****
Piratic flycatcher***
Boat-billed flycatcher***
Bright-rumped attila***
Social flycatcher***** *
Great kiskadee***** *
Brown-crested flycatcher*
Gray-capped flycatcher*
Great crested flycatcher****
Common tody-flycatcher**
Yellow-bellied elaenia***
Yellow-olive flycatcher*
Ochre-bellied flycatcher**
Streaked flycatcher**
Southern beardles tyrannulet*
Gray-breasted martin****
Barn swallow****
Mangrove swallow***
S. rough-winged swallow***
Brown jay**
Plain wren*
Riverside wren***** *
Black-bellied wren***
House wren*****
Whistling wren*
Clay-colored robin***** *
Long-billed gnatwren**
Philadelphia vireo****
Red-eyed vireo*
Yellow-throated vireo*
Lesser greenlet*
Bananaquit****
Prothonotary warbler**
Tennessee warbler*****
Yellow warbler*****
Mangrove warbler**
Chestnut-sided warbler***** *
Ovenbird*
Louisiana waterthrush*
Northern waterthrush**
Kentucky warbler**
Mourning warbler*
Black-and-white warbler*
Yellow-rumped warbler*
American redstart**
Buff-rumped warbler*
Great-tailed grackle***** *
Baltimore oriole*****
Black-cowled oriole*
Orchard oriole**
Scarlet-rumped cacique**
Red-winged blackbird*
Yellow-throated euphonia*
Spotted-crowned euphonia*
White-vented euphonia*
Yellow-crowned euphonia***
Thick-billed euphonia****
Golden-hooded tanager****
Green honeycreeper**
Red-legged honeycreeper****
Shining honeycreeper*
Blue dacnis***
Blue-gray tanager***** *
Palm tanager***** *
Cherrie's tanager*****
Summer tanager*****
Gray-headed tanager*
White-throated shrike-tanager*
Buff-throated saltator****
Blue-black grosbeak*
Yellow-faced grassquit*
White-collared seedeater****
Variable seedeater****
Blue-black grassquit***** *
Orange-billed sparrow*
Black-striped sparrow*
House sparrow**