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Top Sites for Roadside Birding in Costa Rica

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If habitat is protected, they can also act as important pathways to fantastic places and can greatly facilitate connecting people with birds and biodiversity. High Elevations A good degree of high elevation forest is protected in Costa Rica but how to reach it? Even so, despite the big risk for biodiversity, we need roads.

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Come to Finca Luna Nueva Lodge in Costa Rica!

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Our elevation (1080 to 1150 feet) places us in what is called seasonal rainforest, but we are contiguous to the higher elevation Children’s Eternal Rainforest and connected reserves, comprising almost 250,000 acres of protected habitat from our farm to the top of the cloud forest.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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Here local people consider these birds the sacred guardians of their nesting rock formations (which are believed to house ancestral spirits), and have protected their colonies for generations. They also occur in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Guinea.

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How to Start and End a Birding Trip to Costa Rica

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Check out these suggestions: The Zamora Estate : Not that far from the airport, this place protects some of the last remaining wetland habitat in the Central Valley. Liberia: This northern town gets a mention because it has its own airport. A distant look at a Great Green Macaw.