Wildbird Tours Costa Rica

Wildbird Tours (operating from watchingbirdscostarica.com) is a Costa Rica-based birding outfit assembled from local naturalists and bilingual guides, with more than twenty years of combined field experience across the country. Photographer-naturalist Julio Sanchez is credited prominently on the site, and the company keeps groups to a maximum of around six participants on all-inclusive private itineraries. Their core circuit runs from the Caribbean rainforests across the Central Highlands and down through the Arenal Volcano and Caño Negro wetlands to the Pacific lowlands, hitting the country's signature targets: Resplendent Quetzal in the highlands, King Vulture and Snowcap on the Caribbean slope, and an extensive cast of hummingbirds, motmots, tanagers and owls. Itineraries are pitched at small private parties rather than fixed-departure groups, with customisable 12-day packages anchoring their bookings.