Emerald Tucanet
photo by Yehudi Hernandez

Service Birding Costa Rica

Service Birding specializes in tours to the Costa Rican Bird Route and other top birding destinations in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican Bird Route is a project being implemented by the Rainforest Biodiversity Group in the northern region of Costa Rica. This project promotes conservation of bird habitat and biological diversity in an area that supports more than 500 species of birds and is considered a Biodiversity Hotspot by Conservation International.

Birding

Visiting the Costa Rican Bird Route offers excellent opportunities to see the endangered Great Green Macaw, the second largest parrot in the world. Our tours visit newly created private reserves within the Costa Rican Bird Route that support the last remaining habitat in Costa Rica for this species. The Great Green Macaw may only be seen in other hard to reach areas of the world such as northern Colombia, the Darrien in Panama, and the eastern lowlands of Nicaragua. This makes the 15 reserves that comprise the Costa Rican Bird Route the most accessible place in the world to see the Great Green Macaw.

Some of the spectacular species one may find during a trip to the Costa Rican Bird Route include:

1. Great Green Macaw
2. Scarlet Macaw
3. Black-crowned Antpitta
4. Streak crowned Antvireo
5. White-fronted Nunbird
6. Long-tailed Tyrant

It is common to see over 100 species in a given day while birding in the Costa Rican Bird Route!

Service

As part of our tours to the Costa Rican Bird Route, trip participants will have the opportunity to give back to the local communities and private reserves visited. This could include planting trees in reforestation projects, constructing needed school infrastructure, providing schools with books and equipment not easily found in Costa Rica like bird guides and binoculars, or helping to conduct an educational workshop.
In addition, a portion of your tour cost goes to support the Rainforest Biodiversity Group and their conservation programs.