Cotinga Tours

Cotinga Tours is an owner-operated Costa Rica birding company founded in 1998, with a US-facing office in Elkridge, Maryland that handles bookings for North American clients. The company is celebrating its 26th year of operation as of 2026 and is in the process of expanding into Ecuador and Panama. Its schedule mixes set-departure birding tours, custom group itineraries, photography tours, and education trips for university and naturalist groups. Tours are pitched as small-group with personalized service, leveraging local-operator status to access lodges and routes across Costa Rica's main biogeographic regions.