Raúl Fernández’s whistle resonates through the wild avocado trees just off the main road in San Gerardo de Dota, a small mountain village where birds far outnumber humans. There is one particular bird ...

While in Costa Rica to lead a bird-photography tour, we saw drawings or paintings of the resplendent quetzal everywhere we looked. The bird's stunning profile appears on postcards. On hotel signs.

After catching my breath from the heart-throbbing view of a resplendent quetzal in Costa Rica, I thought about the bird's influence on people. Bygone Mayans and Aztecs of Mesoamerica believed the bird ...

The first thing the eye registers when it views the resplendent quetzal is the exceptionally long, bright-green tail. Then the focus darts to the shiny, stabbed in-the-heart-red breast, finally ...

When I was young, I stood in a Costa Rican mountain cloud forest, desperately trying to find a resplendent quetzal with its dazzling plumage. Yet, a male bird had been perching in a tree 15 yards away ...

An unimaginable array of flora and fauna can be found in Costa Rica‘s jungles amid the purr of jaguars, mist of clouds, and sputter of active volcanoes. From December to April, during the dry season, ...

(MENAFN- Costa Rica News) Costa Rica, a small Central American country nestled between Nicaragua and Panama, is a world-renowned destination for birdwatching. Despite its modest size, Costa Rica ...

Collette's blogger Kristen Gilbert recently highlighted some of the most amazing species of birds that can be seen in Costa Rica - a country known for its biodiversity. Altogether, 600 avian species ...

(MENAFN- Costa Rica News) Costa Rica is home to over 900 bird species, including some of the most exotic and visually stunning birds on Earth.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"# ...

Costa Rica set an all-time tourism record in 2015 with 2.6 million visitors. The country was an ecotourism pioneer, offering zipline and canopy adventures in its gorgeous rainforests before they were ...

In the birding world, spectacular can sometimes be — in reality — just commonplace. A few years back, my children treated me to a bird-watcher’s dream trip — a week in the lowland tropical forests of ...