Birdwatching & Wildlife Experince
We are a tour agency whose purpose is to share our passion about the wonders of birdlife with people that visit us from around the world. We will help you create a personalized itinerary according to your interests and the birds you wish to watch. We provide tours that range from one to 15 day. We also provide all-inclusive packages and transportation from your arrival to Costa Rica until your departure.
We provide specialized guides that will take you to the ultimate locations for sightings or photographs.
Tours & Packeges
!Please let us know about your trip interests and we will plan a customized birdwatching experience just for you!
Birds Diversity and Birding Hot Spots
Birds in the Osa Peninsula are dispersed into the wide variety of habitats found in this region. To take advantage of these wildlife wonders it is necessary to travel around the area by vehicle to hit all the birding Hot Spots. The tours are organized according to your wishes and our experience as bird specialists.
Corcovado National Park
We offer you three ways to enter the park.
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Starting and ending at Drake Bay
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Starting and ending at Puerto Jiménez
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Starting in Puerto Jimenez and ending at Drake Bay
Corcovado National Park offer clients food services at Sirena Ranger Station. In the kitchen they offer a varied menu where they use local ingredients of an excellent quality which result in Costa Rica's gastronomy as well as international.
The lodging is an wooded platform one meter above the ground and a metal roof and surrounded by a wooden railing. The lodging offer bunk beds in each platform. Every bunk bed has mattress, anti-mosquito, pillow and pillowcase, sheets and blankets. There are shared baths.
You will need to bring only your towel and personal things.
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Birding & wildlife tours in Sirena Ranger Station
The most recommended area for birding and wildlife in Corcovado National Park are the trails in Sirena. There are 2 main ways to enter the park, from Puerto Jiménez or Drake Bay. Boat transfer is the most accessible way to visit the park. Sirena station is only 15 minutes’ walk from where you unload from the boat at Park.
There are two main rivers that flow down by each side of Sirena Ranger Station. They meet with the Pacific Ocean and create two important deltas; Río Sirena and Rio Claro. Those important ecosystems are home to great variety of wildlife, and birds form part of this natural balance. An early bird watching walk in the morning to Rio Sirena will allow you to observe variety and vast quantity of bird species in the most diverse place on the earth.
We recommend to do at least one overnight tour for an ideal birding experience.
Waking up early in the morning and listening all the birds singing makes you feel like you are in an avia paradise.
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Hiking trais in Sirena
They are five hiking trails in the surroundings of Sirena Ranger Station. As an aerial view all the thails makes a petals of a flower. The trail paths are easy walking. You will pass through little creeks on your way. Depending on the season they will be dry or flowing steadily. You will explore a secondary and primary forest. It takes about two hours to walk every trail, with the exception of Rio Claro Trail. It is the longest one and takes around 3 hours.
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Opening hours:
• Every day from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m.
• In October the Sirena Park sector closes its doors to visitors, however the other sectors are open.
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Rates:
• National and residents: ¢1.600.
• Foreign Non-residents: $ 16.
• Camping Zone: $ 4 (San Pedrillo and Sirena Stations) *.
• ¢ 500 nationals and residents (aged 2 to 12 years) children.
• $ 5 nonresidents Children (aged 2 to 12 years)
• Children under 2 years of age do not pay entrance, as well as national residents and visitors older than 65 years.
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Important:
Currently the Sirena Sector is offering: lodging, feeding, store of nature and lockers.
These rates are daily for both, nationals and foreigners visitors:
Lodging: $ 30
Breakfast: $ 20
Lunch: $ 25
Dinner: $ 25
Rent of lockers: $ 4.
Dyscover the Osa Peninsula (south pacific of Costa Rica)
Kayaking & Birdwatching Mangrove
Experience a birdwatching while kayaking through the Golfo Dulce to than start entering into the mangrove forest, during the low tide you will observe water birds and shore birds, juvenile pelagic species use to explore the Golfo Dulce waters.
In the surrounding of the Golfo Dulce there are important deltas with majestic mangrove forests, an important food sour and home for an many migratory species. Subcolinies of shorebird inhabit this deltas during their wintering season. Some resident species use this areas for breeding, nesting or feeding.
Birding in Rio Rincon Bridge
This is one of the best places in Costa Rica for sighting the Yellow-billed Cotinga. An early birding during the morning is a perfect time for sighting this amazing specie. It is an endangered specie and the Osa Peninsula is an important place for its preservation. Rincon is a place with a high diversity and endemism, thus becoming home for many interesting species. It is located just 25 minutes from Puerto Jimenez, or 45 minutes from Drake Bay.
Birding & Hikin in Osa Birders Rain Forest
Rare and unique species makes this place a bird paradise. It is pristine land located in the Golfo Dulce Reserve and it was created in 1974, three years after Corcovado was decreed as a National Park.
Birding in Puerto Jiménez
The diversity of birds in Puerto Jimenez allows us the sighting of assortment of species in an easy to walk area. The stroll visits three different habitats: urban life, mangrove, and coastal area. It is one and a half hour tour and it is recommended to do even in families
Birding in Ecoturistico la Tarde
Ecoturistico La Tarde is positioned in pristine land that allow you to observe a great variety and fascinating endemic species. It is well known for having an important concentrated endemism. From the garden are you will observe many of those birds that come out from the interior forest for feeding in the forest edges and surroundings of this garden.
Dyscover the Central Pacific of Costa Rica
Carara National Park
This National Park is a world-renowned ornithological destination due to its higt bird diversity. It is undoubtedly one of the main sites in the country for birdwatching, so it will be included in the next guide made by the Costa Rican Institute of Tourism in this segment of tourism at the national level. Due to its location and ease of access on Route 34, this park is also ideal for a day visit, being able to travel easily from the capital, either in your own vehicle, rented or by public transport.
This National Park is a world-renowned ornithological destination due to its higt bird diversity. It is undoubtedly one of the main sites in the country for birdwatching, so it will be included in the next guide made by the Costa Rican Institute of Tourism in this segment of tourism at the national level. Due to its location and ease of access on Route 34, this park is also ideal for a day visit, being able to travel easily from the capital, either in your own vehicle, rented or by public transport.
Behavior and activitie of birds
Lower temperatures during the first morning hours are the best time for birds to move without wasting much energy.
Fruit and nectar specialist are the first active birds moving into the interior forest. From 4:45 am you start to hear the first bird vocalizations such as wood creepers, macaws, and parrots. Some trees are full of fruits and flowers during the first morning hours attracting an important quantity of species, from nectar specialists to fruit eaters, also allowing us to watch species such as hummingbirds, honeycreepers and Cotingas.
Insectivore bird species wait patient the two fist hours of day. They are more active from 6:45am to 8:45am. Insects are cold blooded animals, so they leave their hiding places until the environment temperature gets higher allowing their bodies to function even more.
Birds have time for everything in the rainforest. Some activities are necessary during the day. For example, cleaning themselves is important to maintain a beautiful and clean plumage. Reproduction will ensure the future of the specie. And of course resting to recover their energy. This behaviour occurs usually from 8:45am to 10:45 during the morning and from 3:45pm to 5:45pm during the afternoon.
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