G. Howell’s Birds of Costa Rica (2023) is an exemplary field guide and a rich source of information on Costa Rican birds that is accessible to a wide range of users. Widely accepted splits that have not been included are Western Woodhaunter (from Striped Woodhaunter), Carmioli's Tanager (from Olive Tanager), and Cabanis's Ground-Sparrow (from Prevost's Ground-Sparrow). The text and maps have been fully updated to ensure that this guide is the definitive field guide for anyone visiting Costa Rica. A state-of-the-art illustrated field guide to the birds of Costa Rica Costa Rica is among the most popular birding destinations in the world, with a breathtaking diversity of neotropical birdlife and stunningly beautiful habitats ranging from shady mangrove swamps to mist-enshrouded mountaintops and verdant rain forests.

At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animals-over half a million species! This new field guide to the birds of Costa Rica will doubtless become the standard reference for the country, and offers a more streamlined and navigable product than the previous Birds of Central America (2018), also illustrated by Dale Dyer.Therefore, a simple, effective field guide would be an invaluable tool for residents and visitors seeking to observe and identify birds. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The species accounts themselves are engaging and provide rich descriptions of bird habitat, behavior, identification marks, near species comparisons, vocalizations, and regional status. Ideal for the travelling nature watcher, this useful guide provides a comprehensive overview of the variety of bird-life to be found in Costa Rica. Add to that the fact that it is safe, with a good road network and quite a lot of its nationals understand basic English, and you're looking at a great birding destination.

Two obvious examples are the Clapper Rail and the Nutting’s Flycatcher, which are both likely to be different species. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. As well as the commoner species likely to be encountered - colourful birds such as the Blue-grey Tanager, Social Flycatcher, Kiskadee, Clay-coloured Robin and Rufous-collared Sparrow - the guide also focuses on endemics, such as Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager, and endangered species, such as the Bare-necked Umbrellabird and Three-wattled Bellbird. It’s small and easy to carry, includes accurate illustrations and solid distribution maps to aid in correctly identifying everything you see. These include Blue-throated Toucanet (part of Emerald Toucanet), Flammulated Atilla (with Bright-rumped Attila), Whistling Wren (with Southern Nightingale Wren), Canebrake Wren (with Plain Wren) and Northern Violaceous Trogon (with Violaceous Trogon).There are also some really useful (as identification tools) supplementary illustrations such as of the undertails of Myiarchus flycatchers on Page 320. Inevitably these details leave the reader wanting more, and saddened that this concise guide is space limited (Why and how does the Great Kiskadee taste foul?

Please note that audiobooks and ebooks purchased from this site must be accessed on the Princeton University Press app. The only problem was that despite being a softback, it was still too big and heavy for the average pocket.Richard has spent his entire life in Costa Rica, raised a lovely family of avid naturalists and birders, and is a passionate birder himself. I asked Birding Guide Extraordinaire, Rodolfo “ Rudy” Zamora which guidebook he prefers, and he immediately answered, “Oh, no doubt the Garrigues book, The Birds of Costa Rica. Further space is saved by not covering 27 pelagic seabirds that you are very unlikely to see anyway. Dana Gardner's style was more typical of good field guides and benefited from deeper colour saturation, but the layout of this new book is a lot less confusing, so overall it is better for field use.