MONTE VERDE CLOUD FOREST RESERVE & LIST
COSTA RICA
Region (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (17-19th January, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
The Monteverde area was accessed from the town of Santa Elena where there was a good choice of cheap accomodation. I visited 3 different sites spending a day birding in each. The Monteverde Reserve was 6km from Santa Elena and reached by bus leaving at 6:15. The Santa Elena Reserve was about 5km from Santa Elena town in the other direction from Monteverde. There was also a bus leaving at about 6:45. The last day was spent at the Bajo Del Tigre trail which was 3km from town towards the Monteverde Reserve to which I walked. The Bajo del Tigre trail was at lower elevation and had very different species from the other 2. Monteverde and Santa Elena Reserves had good forest at similar elevations but I saw a few species in each reserve that I didn't see at the other. Several species were seen walking to or from the reserves. The weather was very windy and rainy on all days and really affected the birding. I saw only 1 of my target species, the Black Guan, at the Santa Elena Reserve. I saw 77 species including 22 lifers
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Species seen
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Broad-winged Hawk ? Buteo platypterus
- Black Guan Chamaepetes unicolor Near-threatened
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica Seen Liberia
- Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon costaricensis
- White-fronted Parrot ? Amazona albifrons
- Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Bare-shanked Screech-Owl Megascops clarkii
- Green Hermit Phaethornis guy
- Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus
- Green Violet-ear Colibri thalassinus
- Fiery-throated Hummingbird Panterpe insignis
- Coppery-headed Emerald Elvira cupreiceps Endemic
- Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa eximia
- Purple-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis calolaema
- Green-crowned Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula
- Magenta-throated Woodstar Calliphlox bryantae
- Orange-bellied Trogon ? Trogon aurantiiventris
- Blue-crowned Motmot Momotus momota
- Prong-billed Barbet Semnornis frantzii
- Blue-throated Toucanet Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis
- Smoky-brown Woodpecker Veniliornis fumigatus
- Spotted Barbtail Premnoplex brunnescens
- Ruddy Treerunner Margarornis rubiginosus
- Spotted Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus erythropygius
- Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor
- Long-tailed Manakin Chiroxiphia linearis
- Mountain Elaenia Elaenia frantzii
- Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus
- Rufous-browed Tyrannulet ? Phylloscartes superciliaris
- Yellow-olive Flycatcher Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher Phainoptila melanoxantha
- Black-throated Wren ? Thryothorus atrogularis
- Rufous-and-white Wren ? Thryothorus rufalbus
- Ochraceous Wren ? Troglodytes ochraceus
- White-breasted Wood-Wren ? Henicorhina leucosticta
- Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys
- Black-faced Solitaire Myadestes melanops
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus aurantiirostris
- Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus fuscater
- Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush ? Catharus frantzii
- Mountain Robin Turdus plebejus
- Clay-colored Robin Turdus grayi
- Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Lesser Greenlet Hylophilus decurtatus
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Black-throated Green Warbler Dendroica virens
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Wilson's Warbler Wilsonia pusilla
- Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
- Collared Redstart Myioborus torquatus
- Golden-crowned Warbler Basileuterus culicivorus
- Rufous-capped Warbler Basileuterus rufifrons
- Three-striped Warbler Basileuterus tristriatus
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Common Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus ophthalmicus
- Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus pileatus
- Hepatic Tanager Piranga flava
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Silver-throated Tanager Tangara icterocephala
- Spangle-cheeked Tanager Tangara dowii
- Blue Seedeater ? Amaurospiza concolor
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivacea
- Yellow-thighed Finch Pselliophorus tibialis
- Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch Buarremon brunneinucha
- White-eared Ground-Sparrow Melozone leucotis
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- 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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