Rancho Naturalista

Rancho Naturalista has 520 species of birds recorded on its grounds. Birding at Rancho Naturalista can be very productive with easy birding from their famous birding balcony with view on the feeders and surrounding rainforest and more challenging birding on their forest trails. A morning bird session could easily produce up to 50 – 60 species. When planned well and with the additional help of their skilled local bird guides it is possible to see more than 100 species from Rancho Naturalista. Also bird photographers will enjoy the wide variety of colorful birds that area easily accessible at the feeders; with White-necked Jacobins and Green-breasted Mangos at the sugar feeders and several species of colorful Tanagers at the fruit feeders. Besides that a moth trap not only attracts beautiful moth species but also serves as a buffet the next morning for many species of more secretive rainforest birds like Spotted Woodcreeper, White-breasted Wood-wren and many others…