These are the species that would be lifers for me, whose ranges overlap Playas del Coco (where we’ll arrive tomorrow)!
- thicket tinamou
- least grebe
- crested bobwhite
- plain-breasted ground-dove
- blue ground-dove
- ruddy quail dove
- mangrove cuckoo
- pheasant cuckoo
- striped cuckoo
- white-tailed nightjar
- northern potoo
- black swift (transient)
- lesser swallow-tailed swift
- green-breasted mango
- plain-capped starthroat
- Canivet’s emerald
- blue-throated goldentail
- steely-vented hummingbird
- white-throated crake
- rufous-necked wood-rail
- russet-naped wood-rail
- southern lapwing
- collared plover
- king vulture
- pearl kite
- plumbeous kite (breeding visitor)
- gray-headed kite
- hook-billed kite
- crane hawk
- common black hawk
- great black hawk
- zone-tailed hawk
- white-tailed hawk
- striped owl
- mottled owl
- crested owl
- spectacled owl
- Pacific screech-owl
- vermiculated screech-owl
- ferruginous pygmy-owl
- ringed kingfisher
- Amazon kingfisher
- American pygmy kingfisher
- blue-throated motmot
- Lesson’s motmot
- white-necked puffbird
- lineated woodpecker
- collared forest-falcon
- bat falcon
- yellow-crowned parrot
- black-crowned antshrike
- ruddy woodcreeper
- northern barred-woodcreeper
- plain xenops
- stub-tailed spadebill
- ochre-bellied flycatcher
- northern beardless-tyrannulet
- greenish elaenia
- yellow-bellied elaenia
- ruddy-tailed flycatcher
- fork-tailed flycatcher
- white-winged becard
- mangrove vireo
- Cabanis’s wren
- tropical mockingbird
- scrub euphonia
- olive sparrow
- yellow-billed cacique
- spot-breasted oriole
- red-crowned ant-tanager
- grayish saltator