DOMINICAL & LIST
COSTA RICA
Region (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (9-11th February, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
Dominical is a very small beach town known best for surfing. We stayed here for 2 nights mainly as a break from birding. Cheap, basic accomodation is available at Cabinas Coco (about $11 for a double). Dominical can be reached by an hour and a half bus ride from San Isidro. It is nothing special as a birding spot but did have a few shore birds around the estuary and a few birds not seen at other sites. I saw 39 species.
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Species seen
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
- Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Laughing Gull Larus atricilla
- Royal Tern Sterna maxima
- Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Clay-colored Robin Turdus grayi
- Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia
- Passerini's Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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