• 2024 March 18-28, 2024 Price: $4520 per person sharing Single room supplement: $400 Guide: Nathan Goldberg & Local guide Maximum of 8 participants Trip full! Please contact us for waitlist

    Second tour added!

    Costa Rica II March 28 - April 7, 2024 Price: $4520 per person sharing Single room supplement: $400 Guide: Nathan Goldberg & Local guide Maximum of 8 participants Trip full! Please contact us for waitlist

    Custom tours anytime! Contact us for details

  • Costa Rica Private Tour - Aug 2021 (Click HERE for photo gallery)

  • Coming Soon!

Costa Rica A Birding the tropics starter kit

Costa Rica is one of the most popular tropical countries for ecotourism, and for good reason. With incredible birding and abundant wildlife, along with fantastic ecolodges and delicious food, it's the sort of place that a birder can return to time and again and continue to see new things and have new experiences.

This trip is designed to sample a diversity of Costa Rican habitats—from the Central highlands around the capital, to the Caribbean lowland rainforest, back up to the Pacific Slope montane cloud forest, and finally dropping down into the Pacific Coast lowlands. We should see an impressive assortment of tropical birds: antbirds and manakins and motmots and in the lowlands, highland specialists like Resplendent Quetzal, Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher, endemic warblers, and a variety of tanagers, trogons, hummingbirds, and parrots everywhere (and even both Scarletand Great Green Macaws). Wintering migrants will also still be around, so we’ll get to see familiar warblers, vireos, and orioles before they visit us again in the US come spring.

Itineraries will be updated with plenty of time before the next departure. Our itineraries usually show minimal changes between years, but some substantive updates can occur as birding access and information evolves. For any specific questions regarding these trips, please contact us.

Scroll through our COsta Rica photo gallery below

Montezuma Quail made the Top 5 Birds of the Trip lists on both of our recent Texas Hill Country & Big Bend tours. With views like this at the feeders in Davis Mountains State Park, it's no wonder. We've been running this trip since 2017 and this
What do these four birds have in common (besides being awesome)? Can you guess the theme and name of Chicago's first ever birding festival based on these four birds together? Find out on May 10!
A delightfully common resident in Western Mexico, we had daily sightings of this Yellow Grosbeak while staying at Rancho Primavera in the beautiful hills south of Puerto Vallarta. 📸 by Red Hill Birding guide @adamwardsell #redhillbirding #birdi
Red Hill Birding is taking on Texas for the rest of the month. Josh is running our Hill Country & Big Bend tour, which includes witnessing the incredible Mexican Free-tailed Bat emergence at the Frio Bat Cave! Steve is soaking spring migration a