Animals on the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
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Costa Rica offers birders unrivalled birdwatching: the list of birds has topped more than 850 species which is all the more amazing considering the fact that Costa Rica isn't much bigger than the state of New Hampshire.
225 species of the birds in Costa Rica are travelers like you: migratory birds from North America who come to hibernate in Costa Rica.
The best time for spotting birds is during nesting season which reaches its peak from April to June and continues until August.
To see a large sampling of the country's bird life, you should travel to different parts of the country. But you can also just walk a few steps from one hill to the other or from the coast up a river estuary to experience another birds habitat.
Birds described in the Nicoya Peninsula Wildlife Guide:
An excellent book for birdwatchers is the Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica
by G. Stiles and A. F. Skutch.