Birds of the Wilson Botanical Gardens,
San Vito Las Cruces, and Adjacent Areas
and Lagoons, Costa Rica

A bird checklist based on the results of seven Henderson birding trips to the Wilson Botanical Gardens during January/February of 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2001. All trips guided by Carlos Gomez N. An asterisk is shown for the number of trips on which a species was recorded out of seven total trips. Compiled on February 7, 2001.

Great tinamou**
Little tinamou***** **
Least grebe**
Magnificent frigatebird*
Neotropic cormorant*
Great blueheron***
Great egret**
Snowy egret***
Little blue heron****
Cattle egret***** **
Green heron*****
Blue-winged teal*****
Ring-necked duck*
Masked duck***
Black vulture***** **
Turkey vulture***** **
King vulture**
Osprey*
Swallow-tailed kite***** **
Double-toothed kite****
White-tailed kite*
Sharp-shinned hawk**
Roadside hawk**
Broad-winged hawk***** *
Black hawk-eagle*
Swainson's hawk*
Crane hawk*
Short-tailed hawk**
Mangrove black hawk*
White hawk*
Gray hawk*
Peregrine falcon*
Yellow-headed caracara***** **
Crested caracara*
Laughing falcon*****
Barred forest-falcon***
Bat falcon**
Crested guan**
Marbled wood-quail*****
Spottedwood-quail***
White-throated crake****
Gray-necked wood-rail***** *
Purple gallinule***** *
Common moorhen*****
Northern jacana*****
Solitary sandpiper**
Rock dove***
Pale-vented pigeon*
Scaled pigeon******
Ruddy pigeon*
Short-billed pigeon***** **
White-tipped dove***** **
Gray-chested dove*****
Ruddy ground-dove***
Crimson-fronted parakeet*****
Orange-chinned parakeet*****
Blue-headed parrot***** *
White-crowned parrot***** *
Brown-hooded parrot**
Squirrel cuckoo***** **
Smooth-billed ani***** *
Tropical screech-owl*****
Mottled owl***
Black-and-white owl***
Crested owl*
Pauraque***
Chuck-will's widow*
White-collared swift***** *
Vaux's swift****
Band-rumpedswift**
Green hermit***** **
Little hermit***** **
Long-tailed hermit*
Scaly-breasted hummingbird****
Violet sabrewing****
White-crested coquette*
Fork-tailed (garden)emerald *****
Violet-crowned woodnymph*
Beryl-crowned hummingbird*
Snowy-bellied hummingbird*****
Rufous-tailed hummingbird***** **
White-tailed emerald***** *
Purple-crowned fairy****
Long-billed starthroat****
Baird'strogon**
Violaceous trogon**
Collared trogon**
Slaty-tailedtrogon***
Black-throated trogon*
Blue-crowned motmot***** **
Rufous-tailed jacamar***** *
Emerald toucanet***** *
Fiery-billed aracari***** **
Chestnut-mandibledtoucan*****
Olivaceous piculet***
Red-crowned woodpecker***** **
Lineated woodpecker*****
Golden-olive woodpecker**
Smoky-brown woodpecker*
Pale-billed woodpecker*
Plain xenops*
Pale-breasted spinetail*
Red-faced spinetail***
Buff-fronted foliage-gleaner***
Buff-throated foliage-gleaner**
Ruddy foliage-gleaner*
Scaly-throated leaftossser*
Olivaceous woodcreeper***
Wedge-billed woodcreeper*
Buff-throated woodcreeper*
Tawny-winged woodcreeper*
Spotted woodcreeper****
Streak-headed woodcreeper***** *
Brown-billed scythebill****
Russet antshrike***
Black-hooded antshrike*
Plain antvireo***** *
Black-faced antthrush***
Slaty antwren***
Dot-winged antwren*
Paltry (mistletoe)tyrannulet***** **
Yellow-bellied elaenia***** **
Mountain elaenia*
Lesser elaenia**
Olive-sided flycatcher***
Scale-crested pygmy-tyrant***** *
Common tody-flycatcher*****
Bran-colored flycatcher**
Tropical pewee*
Yellow-bellied flycatcher***
Bright-rumped atilla***** **
Rufous mourner**
Dusky-capped flycatcher*****
Great crested flycatcher*
Yellow-olive flycatcher**
Yellowish flycatcher*
Sulphur-rumped flycatcher*
Ochre-bellied flycatcher*
Eye-ringedflatbill***
Great kiskadee***** *
Boat-billed flycatcher***** *
Social flycatcher***** **
Gray-capped flycatcher***** **
Piratic flycatcher***
Tropical kingbird***** **
Golden-crowned spadebill**
White-throated spadebill*
Black-and-white becard*
White-winged becard**
Rose-throated becard*****
Masked tityra***** **
Black-crownedtityra**
Turquoise cotinga***
Rufous piha**
White-ruffed manakin***** *
Blue-crowned manakin*****
Gray-breasted martin******
Mangrove swallow****
Blue-and-white swallow***** **
N. rough-winged swallow*
S. rough-winged swallow*****
Brown jay*
Plain wren***
Riverside wren**
Rufous-breasted wren***** **
House wren***** **
White-breasted wood-wren****
Gray-breasted wood-wren*
Tropical gnatcatcher***
Orange-billed nightingale-thrush*****
Clay-coloredrobin***** **
White-throated robin***** *
Wood thrush*
Green shrike-vireo*
Yellow-throated vireo***** *
Philadelphia vireo**
Red-eyed vireo*
Lesser greenlet****
Rufous-browed peppershrike*
Golden-winged warbler***** **
Tennessee warbler***** **
Yellow warbler***
Mangrove warbler*
Chestnut-sided warbler***** **
Black-throated green warbler****
Blackburnian warbler***** **
Black-and-white warbler***** **
Mourning warbler*
Chiriqui yellowthroat***
Wilson's warbler***** *
Slate-throated redstart***** **
Rufous-capped warbler**
Buff-rumped warbler***
American redstart***
Tropical parula***
Ovenbird*
Hooded warbler*
Bananaquit***** **
Silver-throated tanager***** **
Speckled tanager***** **
Bay-headed tanager***** **
Golden-hooded tanager***** **
Emerald tanager*
Scarlet-thighed dacnis***
Green honeycreeper***** **
Red-legged honeycreeper**
Thick-billed euphonia***** *
Spot-crowned euphonia***** *
Blue-hooded euphonia*
Blue-gray tanager***** **
Palm tanager***** **
White-lined tanager***
Summer tanager***** **
Cherrie's tanager***** **
White-winged tanager**
Common bush-tanager****
Gray-headed tanager*
Red-crowned ant-tanager**
Streaked saltator*****
Grayish saltator*
Buff-throated saltator***** **
Rose-breasted grosbeak***** *
Black-headed brush-finch*
Chestnut-capped brush-finch**
Black-striped sparrow***** **
Orange-billed sparrow**
Blue-black grassquit*
Variable seedeater******
White-collared seedeater*
Ruddy-breasted seedeater**
Yellow-faced grassquit***** **
Rufous-collared sparrow***** **
Great-tailed grackle***** **
Giant cowbird**
Black-cowled oriole*
Baltimore oriole***** **
Orchard oriole*
Chestnut-headed oropendola****
Eastern meadowlark*
Yellow-bellied siskin**
Lesser goldfinch***** *