RINCON & LIST
COSTA RICA
Region (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (19-20th February, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
Rincon is fairly easily reached by bus from San Jose or Puerto Jimenez. It is about 1 hour from the latter and 4 buses leave every day (2 early morning, 2 afternoon). The bus passes Cabinas Golfo Dulce which has basic rooms ($20). The manageress can also cook meals on request. The main reason for coming here was to look for the Mangrove Hummingbird which I found next to the mangroves behind the cabins. It is possible to walk/wade along the mangroves depending on the tide. Canoes can also be rented. I didn't see the Yellow-billed Cotinga which is apparently found in the area. I saw 63 species including 2 lifers.
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Species seen
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- White-throated Crake h Laterallus albigularis
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
- Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
- Western Sandpiper ? Calidris mauri
- Laughing Gull Larus atricilla
- Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis
- Short-billed Pigeon h Patagioenas nigrirostris
- Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Scarlet Macaw Ara macao
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Mealy Parrot Amazona farinosa
- Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
- Striped Cuckoo h Tapera naevia
- Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aenea
- Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri
- Little Hermit Phaethornis
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Mangrove Hummingbird Polyerata boucardi Endemic Endangered
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Black-mandibled Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus
- Olivaceous Piculet Picumnus olivaceus
- Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Gray-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Gray-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Clay-colored Robin Turdus grayi
- Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Northern Waterthrush Seiurus noveboracensis
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Passerini's Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus uropygialis
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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