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Really love your Costa Rica reels… your empanada comments make me laugh 🤣 on my way to CR first 10 days of November from Belgium so looking forward to sampling the South American pasties… and all the birdlife. Keep up the birding site vids they are valuable references 👍 Thanks
Thanks for the video. Me and my wife were there not in a group but we don’t mind the crowd. We went to Mirriam Quetzal and stayed in Cabinas el Quetzal and it was wonderful experience seeing the beautiful birds of San Gerardo de Dota specially the Resplendent Quetzals we love Paraiso Quetzal too we stayed there for 2 nights
Great video and some amazing shots of the birds we have here. :) It was a pleasure having you here and getting to share our beautiful sanctuary with you! Thanks for the shout-outs and spotlight on the voluntary work being done here and in many other places along the shore - without it, the situation for many of our endangered shorebirds would be even more dire than it already is. See you soonish!
Hey, thanks for stopping by! I did two more videos in the series, on Myiarchus and Empidonax Flycatchers. Flycatchers can be worrisome but I’m sure you’ll have a great time over here :) What’s your itinerary?
@@jabirustories This is a late response, as I'm leaving tomorrow, but I will going to La Fortuna for three days and then to Manuel Antonio national Park for three days. I'll admit it's a family trip so I won't be birding all the time, though we do have stuff planned for birding. If you've spent time in either of these places, tips would be great!
@@CBungus That's great, I'm sure you'll have a fantastic time! For La Fortuna, the go-to seems to be the Arenal Observatory Lodge, and it's a very special place, not only for birding but also generally for hiking. The other place that I always recommend to birders travelling with non-birders is the Bogarin Trails. It's famous for the sloths that are quite easy to see there, but you'll always have some good birds as well (I've found it to be very reliable for Black-and-White Owl). If you can sneak in a half-day trip to Cano Negro, that can be fantastic during the wet season as well! For dinner, I love Snapper's and Chifa La Familia Feliz. I'm not really familiar with Manuel Antonio to be honest, but if you're driving between the two, depending on your route Ceiba de Orotina can be a good stop-over. It's essentially a farm road, but a pretty good one for morning birding ;) Enjoy your time - and just let me know if I can help with something!
Hola saludos, muy bien este video pero te recomiendo hacerlo sin música, para escuchar los sonidos de las aves,es mi recomendación,pero lo demas muy bien
Pura Vida und Hallo aus dem Ruhrpott! This was another perfect one, not only for hummingbird lovers. When back in Costa Rica one day, we will surely visit the north again for some nice birding.
Thanks so much! The north has some surprises, a couple of months ago we went to Rincon de la Vieja and saw both lesser ground cuckoo and a sunbittern (!) on the same walk, while the birders we met turned around and were even luckier with a sighting of a rufous-vented ground cuckoo (the „ghost of the rainforest“). To be honest though, rainy season can be tough 😅 Thanks for stopping by! I’m way behind not only on my videos but on yours too… Pura Vida 🇨🇷
Over-tourism is our fault. Your excellent videos entice others to bird in Costa Rica. I started birding San Gerardo back in the 80’s with groups from the US. We have met the enemy and HE is US.
2 месяца назад
Danke für die Mühe, so eine Bestimmungshilfe für Kolibris zu geben. Das war bestimmt viel Arbeit. Ich habe noch einige unbestimmte Kolibrifotos von meiner letzten Costa Rica Reise. Mal sehen, ob was Spannendes dabei ist 😊😊😊
What a cool video and so much highly interesting birds. Oh yes...a Harpy Eagle. Heard about that one spotted at Boca Tapada. These birds are great. As a zookeeper I cared for a Harpy Eagle at Dortmund Zoo years ago...still gives me goosebumps all over...
When you come back to CR let me know! I’m happy to put you in touch with Pollo down in Cabuya, the pelagics with him are great fun! Also I’m always looking for an excuse to go again
Hey! Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! Yes, I'm a big eBird fan. Right now, my CR list is at 509 species. Not too shabby, but nothing crazy. I really need to close some gaps in the South Pacific and on the Caribbean.... How about you? Thanks for stopping by!
@@jabirustories Ah thats brilliant! Mine is a humble 350 after a single trip but I'm planning to come back. Got some big misses, snowcap, bare necked umbrellabird, rufous-vented ground-cuckoo etc. Hows your list outside of CR?
Thanks a lot, and thanks for checking it out :) Just checked out your channel, you have a new subscriber! Let me know if you ever come to the North Pacific
Great as usual. My absolute favourite is the Violet Sabrewing. Indeed, in the area of Monteverde they fly like wild aircraft bomber pilots...crazy, how aggressive these little birds can be towards others.
Costa Rica its a great country...i live in the city Alajuela and i can see the half of the birds that you show in the video...but in my backyard. One day i see 2 Toucans.
Beautiful video!! That euphonia is gorgeous, deserve a nice T-shirt design for the latin american collection you have. Very looking forward for it!! 😉👕🧡
It’s actually a rather new hotel in town called Arenal Morana. It was a very good budget option at the time, everything brand new and well done. They’re also associated with the Xilopalo so you get access to their pool and free breakfast I believe. I’d highly recommend it, incredible views especially from the corner room. Like I mentioned in the video, I really value walking distance to restaurants and bars and it’s a perfect balance.
This is so funny, im on my internship in CR right now, and this weekend me and our internship crew visited cahuita! Yesterday, we went to the NP, lovely to see your take on it. I found the amounts of beach goers and tourists (even though i am one) a bit annoying at times, and the hand-tame monkeys an raccoons made it feel like a zoo, but the other animals/birds where great! Sadly i wasnt able to get good photos of my target that day, magnificent frigatebird (only saw them distantly). Lovely to see your videos, ¡Pura Vida!
3 месяца назад
What a nice place! ❤ I love your videos and especially the empanada Time. I agree, Del Ritas Patties are the best in town.
My very first Costa Rica experience also was Cahuita/Puerto Viejo/Cocles, back in 1992. And indeed totally different to the rest of the country. Returned there 6 times, but there was no spare time to visit the Caribbean on our last trip... Btw, beautiful footage of beautiful bird species!
Thank you! I really hope to go birding Colombia some day soon! Any recommendations? The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is a region that I'm really curious about. I've been in the area once before but sadly not for birdwatching... Birding in Costa Rica can also be much more productive, but the beach towns are definitely not the best places ;)
Haha, thanks, I guess :) The nicer shots are made with a digiscoping setup, my phone through my scope. When things get shakier and grainy I've had to switch to my camera which has seen better days ;)
@@jabirustories when I was working in our zoo, a colleague mentioned this, as she thought, there was a squirrel monkey, that managed to escape from the enclosure...but it just was a nuthatch in the trees 😅. From then on, I always think of squirrel monkeys when observing these birds 🙈🙂
tourist overcrowding is a problem .. i'm a loner & freak out in lg groups, but, problem is tourism = 💴💶💷💵 & ppl are social creatures, the 'water cooler' effect ... even in scotland we see the damage left behind .. the canary islands & parts of europe are seeing violent confrontations between locals & tourists .. hope it doesn't come to this in CR ..
I really like your videos. They were great for preparing me for my trip to Costa Rica last month and now that I am back I appreciate them even more as I have been to these places. I was with a small group and we found all our quetzals ourselves and without any crowds. I certainly prefer it that way. That being said, I do try to see a rare vagrant if it shows up close to where I live. But that's fun also because I know I'll meet many of my local birding buddies there. I would not travel long distances to see a rare bird. Looking forward to your next video from cerro de la muerte. I am sure you saw Volcana Juncos 😍
Thanks so much for the kind words, it really means a lot! Sounds like you had a great time in Costa Rica - I'm happy to hear that and to even have helped a little :) On "chasing" vagrants: Great point, that social aspect of birding can be really great! Thinking about it, it's something I do miss a little bit here.
Kenne die Gegend tatsächlich nur vom Durchfahren, nie groß angehalten. Aber das wird sich nun wohl ändern. Letztes Mal hatten wir für San Gerardo de Dota nicht genügend Zeit.
Ist leider auch fast immer ein Umweg, auch wenn die Gegend rund um Pérez Zeledón ganz cool ist (zumindest aus Vogel- und Kaffeesicht...) Aber der Abstecher lohnt wirklich. Wann ist's denn endlich wieder soweit? 😉
@@jabirustories wenn's nach mir ginge...käme ich sofort👍😅. Aber hier sind im Moment so viele Dinge zu erledigen, das muss erst einmal gemacht werden, bevor wir an Urlaub denken können. Aber sollte was in die Planung gehen, melde ich mich 🙂👍