Découvrir les oiseaux du Costa Rica en famille : le Rancho Naturalista

Gérard Rolin, his wife and their two children aged 9 and 12  went on their first family birdwatching trip to Costa Rica in April 2010. They organised their trip with Costa Rica Gateway and they chose to visit three different places so that they would get the opportunity to see a good variety of birds and landscapes and they stopped for three nights at Rancho Naturalista on their way from Savegre to the Biological Reserve of La Selva in the Carribean lowlands. This hotel is situated in the Cordilera  Talamanca  at an altitude of about 3,000 feet.
It is said to be the best place in the world to see restricted range species such as the  Snowcap and the vulnerable Tawny-chested Flycatcher. Other specialities include the White-crowned Manakin, the Dull-mantled Antbird and the Black-throated Wren among many others. Half day trips can also be arranged to the Tuis river to look for  the Sunbittern and riverside birds or to CATIE, a tropical agricultural research center to see such birds as the Green Ibis, the Boat-billed Heron and other waterbirds.