Costa Rica is known the world over for its exceptional bird watching adventures. Lake Arenal in Costa Rica offers an extraordinary location for your bird watching adventure. On the property we regularly view parrots, toucans, ortopendalos, jays, wrens, eagles and vultures. Be sure and plan on enjoying the fabulous feathers of Costa Rica's bird watching on Lake Arenal when staying at Hotel Tilawa.

Let Roberta guide your birding and ecological walking tour through this wondrous private forest reserve just minutes from both Tilaran and Hotel Tilawa in Costa Rica.

You will be amazed at the vast variety of animal and bird life and giant ancient trees and plants. Over 160 bird species have been identified on these lands so far. Orchids plant themselves naturally everywhere you look.

Roberta, originally from Oregon, has lived here and cared for these lands for over 25 years.

You will learn amazing things about the Costa Rican jungles and animals and birds.

For reservations and more information contact the front desk at Hotel Tilawa or call Roberta directly at (506) 383-2596.

For the finest in Costa Rica Birding and Ecology Tours.

Short List of Birds Seen at Lake Arenal in Costa Rica

1. Alder Flycatcher
2. Amazon Kingfisher
3. American Redstart
4. Anhinga
5. Bananaquit
6. Band-tailed Barbthroat
7. Banded-backed Wren
8. Bay-headed Tanager
9. Bay Wren
10. Black & White Warbler
11. Black Vulture
12. Black-cowled Oriole
13. Black-cheeded Woodpecker
14. Black-crested Coquette
15. Black-crested Hummingbird
16. Black-crowned Tityra
17. Black-headed Saltator
18. Black-headed Tody Flycatcher
19. Black-striped Sparrow
20. Black-striped Woodcreeper
21. Blue Dacnic
22. Blue Gound Dove
23. Blue-black Grassquit
24. Blue-gray Tanager
25. Broad-winged Hawk
26. Bronzy Hermit Hummingbird
27. Brown Jay
28. Buff-rumpted Warbler
29. Buff-throated Saltator
30. Cattle Egret
31. Chesnut Mandible Toucan
32. Chestnut-sided Warbler
33. Cinnamon Hummingbird
34. Clay-colored Robin
35. Collared Aracari
36. Slate-throated Redstart
37. Common-bush Tanager
38. Common Pauraque
39. Common Tody Flycatcher
40. Common Yellow-throat Warbler
41. Crested Guan
42. Crimson-Collared Tanager
43. Crimson-fronted Parakeet
44. Crowned-woodnymth Hummingbird
45. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
46. Fasciated Tiger Heron
47. Fork-tailed Emerald Hummingbird
48. Giant Cowbird
49. Golden-hooded Tanager
50. Golder-olive Woodpecker
51. Gray-headed Chachalaca
52. Grayish Saltator
53. Great Black Hawk
54. Great Egret
55. Great Kiskadee
56. Green-breasted Mango Hummingbird
57. Green Heron
58. Green Hermit Hummingbird
59. Green Honeycreeper
60. Grey Hawk
61. Hoffmann's Woodpecker
62. Hook-billed Kite
63. House Wren
64. Keel-billed Toucan
65. Laughing Falcon
66. Lineated Woodpecker
67. Little Hermit Hummingbird
68. Long-billed Gnat Wren
69. Louisiana Water Thrush
70. Masked Tityra
71. Mistletoe Tyrannulet
72. Montezuma Oropendula
73. Muscovy Duck
74. Northern Oriole
75. Olive-sided Flycatcher
76. Olive-throaded Parakeet
77. Orange-chinned Parakeet
78. Orange-fronted Parakeet
79. Palm Tanager
80. Purple-crown Fairy Hummingbird
81. Red-billed Pigion
82. Red-legged Honeycreeper
83. Red-lored Parrot
84. Red-rumped Woodpecker
85. Ringed Kingfisher
86. Roadside Hawk
87. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
88. Rufous & White Wren
89. Rufous Motmot
90. Rufous-collared Sparrow
91. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
92. Rufous-tailed Jacamar
93. Scarlet Tanager
94. Scarlet-rumpted Tanager
95. Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
96. Scrub Euphonia
97. Smoky-brown Woodpecker
98. Groove-billed Ani
99. Social Flycatcher
100. Squirrel Cuckoo
101. Streakd-headed Woodpecker
102. Vultures

Phone: 011-506-2695-5050 • eMail Address: crfun (@) hotel-tilawa.com
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