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Bare-necked Umbrellabird on your visit to Costa Rica. Yes! Extend your birding route Costa Rica.

Whit this birdwatching vacation package, we have this bird cover on our trip. Even so, we cannot promise that you can see it for sure. That is one of the birds on the “hard to see list”.

In any case, with the Umbrellabird Package, our destination is La Fortuna, and more precisely at the Private reserve of the Observatory Lodge and the Hanging Bridges.

Those are the two best spots in La Fortuna where you can have a chance to observe them.

But let’s deep into the description of the package. Just keep in mind that we are going to define the final program according to your needs and expectations.

In order to extend your birding route Costa Rica, you can attach this Umbrellabird deal at the birdwatching holiday packages The Agami, The Pinnated, or the Jabirú Package.

Those packages can be added before or after the Umbrellabird package. Then, we adapt the entire program for you.

Birdwatching vacation package

An idea of the program for this package can be:

Day 1:

From Hotel de Campo in Caño Negro, we will be driving to La Fortuna.

This same day, we are going to Pocosol Ranger Station at La Tigra de San Carlos. You will walk along the trails of the natural reserve and having lunch at the ranger station.

Costarican birds that you may see at Pocosol can be WHITE-FRONTED NUMBIRD, RUFOUS VENTED GROUND CUCKOO, BARE NECKED UMBRELLABIRD, OCELLATED ANTBIRD, WHITE COLLARED MANAKIN, LONG-TAILED TYRANT.

For the night, we have prepared a night tour to spot frogs and reptiles.

Day 2.

Full day getting nuts birding and photography. 

Day 3.

We will dedicate all morning birding and photography at the Observatory Lodge Private Reserve.

Few species that quite easy to observe in La Fortuna are COLLARED ARACARI, YELLOW THROATED TOUCAN, SCARLET THIGHED DACNIS, EMERALD TANAGER, SPECKLED TANAGER, RUFOUS MOT MOT.

And after lunch, we are going to Monteverde. We will be there for dinner and a relaxing night.

Day 4.

In Monteverde, we will visit some “out of the box” places. In Costa Rica, and especially in Monteverde, we have so many forests, that are better biding where you will find fewer tourists and more birds.

One of the places we like to explore is the private natural reserve Curi-Cancha. 

There, we are going to look at the RESPLENDENT QUETZAL, BLUE THROATED TOUCANET, WHITE EARED GROUND SPARROW, COLLARED REDSTART, THREE WATTLED BELL BIRD, LONG-TAILED MANAKIN within many others species.

For the afternoon, we planned lunch and walking at the private natural reserve San Luis.

The day will finish in the late afternoon, so you can continue your birding route Costa Rica.

This extension vacation package includes:

• Hotel in Sarapiqui, at the Biological Station La Selva.
• Hotel in Pocosol, at the Ranger Station “La Trigra”
• Hotel in Monteverde, at “Grace & Renzo El Viandante”
• Breakfast and lunch every day.
• Dinner from day 1 to day 3.
• Private guide all the time
• Private transportation all the time.