San Gerardo de Dota
The Talamanca Mountains are a Tropical Cloud Forest area. Almost three-quarters of all the trees are White Oak. This lush, gorgeous forest is vibrant with bromeliads, mosses, ferns, and orchids. The air plants and epiphytes flourish in this cool, damp climate. With a fantastic combination of highlands, middle elevation, and paramo, the area provides birders…
Quick Facts on San Gerardo de Dota
Hotspot Type
Highland Birding Spot
Habitat
Bird Species
Resplendent Quetzal, Spangle-cheeked Tanager, Golden-browed Chlorophonia, Azure-hooded Jay, Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge, Costa Rican Warbler, Silvery-fronted Tapaculo, Streak-breasted Treehunter, Unspotted Saw-whet Owl, Chestnut-capped Brushfinch, Large-footed Finch, Buff-fronted Quail-dove, Torrent Tyrannulet, Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant, American Dipper, Ruddy Treerunner, Black-breasted Wood-Quail, Buffy Tuftedcheek, Sulfur-winged Parakeets, Ornate Hawk-Eagle, Spotted Barbtail, Red-faced Spinetail, Lineated Foliage-gleaner, Tropical Parula, Zeledon’s Antbird, Green-fronted Lancebill, Highland Tinamou, Scaled Antpitta, White-naped Brush finch, Golden-bellied Flycatcher, Slaty-capped Flycatcher, Tufted Flycatcher, Black-capped Flycatcher, Common Chlorospingus, Streaked Xenops, Brown-billed Scythebill, Elegant Euphonia, Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl, Bare-shanked Screech-Owl, Dusky-faced Tanager, Bat Falcon, Barred Parakeet, Ochraceous Pewee, Spot-crowned Woodcreeper, Gray-breasted Wood-Wren, Spotted Wood-Quail, Collared Redstart, Slate-throated Redstart, Collared Trogon, White-winged Tanager, Emerald Toucanet, Silver-throated Jay, Lesser Violetear, White-throated Mountain-gem, Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush, Wren thrush, Black Guan, Flame-throated Warbler, Ochraceous Wren, Sooty-capped Chlorospingus, Black-cheeked Warbler
The Talamanca Mountains are a Tropical Cloud Forest area. Almost three-quarters of all the trees are White Oak. This lush, gorgeous forest is vibrant with bromeliads, mosses, ferns, and orchids. The air plants and epiphytes flourish in this cool, damp climate. With a fantastic combination of highlands, middle elevation, and paramo, the area provides birders and bird photographers a wonderland of species to see and photograph. San Gerardo de Dota is known as the most reliable place in the country to observe the Resplendent Quetzal, probably the most famous bird of Costa Rica and maybe of all of Central America. It is often found feeding in a fruiting wild avocado trees, the Quetzal’s favorite food.
San Gerardo de Dota
Get a Free Quote