The Birds of Las Catalinas – Guanacaste – Costa Rica

Year 10

Version 2 of my book, The Birds of Las Catalinas, is finished! Even if you have no plans to visit Las Catalinas in Costa Rica, the book will be useful for anyone who plans a trip to the Guanacaste and / or the Highlands Rainforest Area. The birds will be similar, and you definitely would want to utilize the birding tools I review.

The new version of the book is greatly expanded and now has over 100 pages, organized into these sections:

  1. Introduction Maps and Birding Tools
  2. The Birds of Las Catalinas (link to town)
  3. Playa Potrero (link to beach)
  4. El Viejo Wetlands (link to Hacienda El Veijo)
  5. Rainforest Highlands (link to La Carolina Lodge)
  6. Alphabetical Index (birds by name)

The PDF version of the book includes many active web links. However, I have zero financial interest and have received no money from any of the organizations listed or linked in the book.

I have no plans to sell printed copies of the book. There will be a very limited hard copy version run for family and friends of the book, The Birds of Las Catalinas. If you want a physical copy of the book, you would need to pay me up front and contact me ASAP. Given the extremely limited number of copies being printed the book will NOT be cheap. I expect the cost to be a bit less than $100 per  copy.

The free PDF download will always be available, and there is no time constraint to get your download. You will find a screenshot of the book’s index page at the bottom of this post.

Black-Headed Trogon (images from the book)

Screenshot of the Birds of Las Catalinas book’s index page

Great Horned Owls Update

Year 10

Fuzz Ball is doing fine. Here is a PRIVATE video (link). It does NOT show up on my YouTube channel and will be deleted by Monday.  Thanks for everyone’s support. Molly and I cheered when I watched the trailcam video and confirmed feeding was occurring. The signs were obvious, but it was still extremely nice to see the actual evidence.

These five photographs of Mom were taken this morning. She is in the “protect and attack” mode. Crows can be relied upon to attack every morning around sunrise (5:27 am). I waited patiently watching for 15 minutes knowing that eventually she would attack. However, the images really took months to set up:

  1. First I hiked after sundown last winter in the deep snow listening to the hoot
  2. Eventually I found the nest on March 8th
  3. I monitored the nest for months, learning behaviors and figuring out favorite perches
  4. I used that knowledge to take a photograph