The Costa Rica Life List - Taxonomic

showing species seen, with date and location of first observation added

List of the 880 Bird Species (With Scientific and English Names) Known From Costa Rica

[308 observed, as of June 5, 2009]

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The Costa Rica Checklist includes native Costa Rican breeding species, regular visitors, casuals and accidentals from other regions that are believed to have strayed there without direct human aid, and well-established introduced species that are now part of its avifauna.

Species are taxonomically listed in general accordance with Clements' 6th Edition and/or AOU family classifications, to the best of my knowledge. The species list comes from Richard Garrigues' personal website, at http://www.angelfire.com/bc/gonebirding/AOUCRlist08.html, updated as of August 25, 2008. The parentheses beside the family listings to the right indicate the number of species I've seen out of all the possible species in that family. As of the latest update the list includes 83 families.

Notes: "E" - Endemic. "" preceding name = observed. Mouse over the checkmark when present to see date and location of first-ever observation.

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Trivia: The most species I've observed in any family is 27, in the family Tyrannidae. Also, I've seen species now in 56 out of a possible 83 Costa Rica families.