The diversity of birds in the Osa Peninsula is amazing! At Sabalo Lodge and in the surrounding areas, you'll see a large variety of tropical rainforest and wetland birds.
Below is just a small sampling of the birds you may see.

My husband and I are amateur bird watchers. Click here to see the list of
birds we have spotted after only four months at Sabalo Lodge.

Chestnut-mandibled toucan

Scarlet macaw...they usually show up daily at our lodge.

Great Potoo...he really blends in.

Blue-crowned Motmot

Gray Necked Woodrail

White Ibis

Great Blue Heron

Birds we have spotted at or near Sabalo Lodge:
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Black-throated Trogon
Violaceous Trogon (spotted by Marjorie, fellow birder)
Linneated Woodpecker
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Red-crowned Woodpecker
Golden-naped Woodpecker
Ringed Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher
Blue-crowned Mannikin
Chestnut-backed Antbird
Black-hooded Antshrike
Black-crowned Tityra
Masked Tityra
Scarlet-rumped Cacique
Yellow-billed Cotinga
White-winged Becard
White-necked Puffbird
Yellow-crowned Euphonia
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Shining Honeycreeper
Great-crested Flycatcher
Streaked Flycatcher
Social Flycatcher
Dusty-capped Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Panama Flycatcher
Gray-capped Flycatcher
Common Tody-Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Tropical Gnatcatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Blue-black Grassquit
Bananaquit
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
Rufous Piha
Yellow Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Ovenbird
Collared Forest Falcon
Laughing Falcon
Roadside Hawk
Black Mangrove Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
Yellow-headed Caracara
Swallow-tailed Kite
Osprey
Northern Jacana
Purple-crowned Fairy Hummingbird
Long-billed Hermit
Stripe-throated Hermit
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Band-tailed Barbthroat
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
Fiery-billed Aracari
Scarlet Macaw
Orange Chinned Parakeet
Red-lored Parrot
White-crowned Parrot
White Ibis
Great Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Green Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
Snowy Egret
Gray-necked Woodrail
Striped Cuckoo
Blue Dacnis
Cherrie's Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
White-shouldered Tanager
Palm Tanager
Baltimore Oriole
Riverside Wren
House Wren
Black-striped Sparrow
Buff-throated Saltator
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater
Variable Seedeater
Yellow-bellied Seedeater
Common Potoo
Common Pauraque
King Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Moscovy Duck
Mangrove Swallow
Barn Swallow
Smooth-billed Ani
Great-tailed Grackle
Giant Cowbird
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Ruddy Ground-Dove
White-tipped Dove
Short-billed Pigeon
Pale-vented Pigeon
Three-wattled Bellbird (we only heard his unearthly call near the lodge)
-Common Ground-Dove

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