Circuit pour deux semaines au Costa Rica en avril?

peu de touristes et pas autant d'animaux à Carara...

Carara is certainly one of the most productive birding sites in Costa Rica. It is home to most of the lowland Pacific rainforest specialities and should provide many new species for our bird list. Bird to be on the lookout for include Zone-tailed Hawk, Gray-chested Dove, Ruddy Quail-dove, Scarlet Macaw, Lesser Nighthawk, Long-billed Hermit, Purple-crowned Fairy, Blue-throated Goldentail, Baird’s Trogon, Long-tailed and Tawny-winged Woodcreepers, Black-hooded Antshrike, Chestnut-backed Antbird, Dot-winged Antwren, Streak-chested Antpitta, Black-faced Antthrush, Golden-crowned Spadebill, Greenish Elaenia, Slate-headed Tody-flycatcher, Northern Bentbill, Rose-throated Becard, Orange-collared, Blue-crowned and Red-capped Manakins, Rufous-breasted, Black-bellied and Riverside Wrens, Western Tanager, Red-legged Honeycreeper, Blue-black Grosbeak, Painted Bunting and the uncommon Spot-crowned Euphonia. Sometimes the infrequent Yellow-billed Cotinga can be spotted near the Tarcoles Bridge, where the large trees of the forests line the riverbank. The Central American Agouti is a fairly large rodent species that can be seen in the darker areas of the forest undergrowth. Reptiles can be common in the leaf litter, with Spiny-tailed Iguana and the Central American Whiptail being two of the more conspicuous. At night, we will drive further towards the coast in search of the stunning Striped Owl.Birdlife is prolific and most of the wildlife is fairly tame, enabling close views. Some species that can be found while cruising the small mangrove channels include Brown Pelican, Magnificent Frigatebird, Reddish, Great and Snowy Egrets, Great Blue and Little Blue Herons, Tricolored Heron, Yellow-crowned Night-heron, White Ibis, Osprey, Plumbeous Kite, Mangrove Black-hawk, Collared and Semipalmated Plovers, Spotted and Western Sandpipers, the endemic Mangrove Hummingbird, American Pygmy-kingfisher, Rufous-browed Peppershrike, Mangrove Vireo and the brilliant ‘mangrove’ subspecies of Yellow Warbler. Huge Central American Crocodiles measuring a whopping 5 metres can easily be found in the murky water and sunning themselves along the riverbanks.