WILDLIFE LIST FOR SAN GERARDO FIELD STATION
Children’s Eternal Rainforest, Monteverde, Costa Rica
Area covered: trails in vicinity of station: Congo,
Saino, Tabacon, main road from where League property
starts (below stream, near first view of Arenal)
entrance down to Alexis Torre’s property. List does
not include species found at higher elevations on
hike in from Santa Elena Reserve or at lower
elevations on hike down to Rio Chiquito. For
convenience, names follow Stiles & Skutch, although
several have changed in more recent references.
Crested Guan
Black Guan
Highland Tinamou
Black-breasted Wood-Quail
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
King Vulture
Black Hawk-Eagle
American Swallow-tailed Kite
Barred Forest Falcon
Collared Forest Falcon
Short-tailed Hawk
Black-chested Hawk
Ornate Hawk-Eagle
Band-tailed Pigeon
Red-billed Pigeon
Ruddy Pigeon
Buff-fronted Quail-Dove
Brown-hooded Parrot
White-crowned Parrot
Crimson-fronted Parakeet
Barred Parakeet
Squirrel Cuckoo
Common Paraque
White-collared Swift
Vaux’s Swift
Blue and White Swallow
Green Hermit
Violet Sabrewing
Green-fronted Lancebill
Purple-crowned Fairy
Green-crowned Brilliant
White-bellied Mountain Gem
Purple-throated Mountain Gem
Striped-tailed Hummingbird
Coppery-headed Emerald
Green Thorntail
Magenta-throated Woodstar
Resplendant Quetzal
Orange-bellied Trogon
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Green Kingfisher
Rufous Motmot
Emerald Toucanet
Prong-billed Barbet
Red-headed Barbet
Golden-olive Woodpecker
Smoky-brown Woodpecker
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
Spotted Woodcreeper
Brown-billed Scythebill
Spotted Barbtail
Buffy Tuftedcheek
Streaked-breasted Treehunter
Lineated Foliage-gleaner
Red-faced Spinetail
Gray-throated Leaftosser
Tawny-throated Leaftosser
Rufous-breasted Antthrush
Russet Antshrike
Dusky Antbird
Ocellated Antbird
Immaculate Antbird
Slaty Antwren
Tawny-crowned Greenlet
Plain Antvireo
Slaty Spinetail
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo
Thrushlike Manakin
Cinnamon Becard
Barred Becard
Masked Tityra
Sharpbill
Rufous Mourner
Bare-necked Umbrellabird
Three-wattled Bellbird
Tropical Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Bright-rumped Attila
Piratic Flycatcher
Golden-bellied Flycatcher
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Tropical Pewee
Tufted Flycatcher
Yellowish Flycatcher
Olive-striped Flycatcher
Slaty capped Flycatcher
White-throated Spadebill
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant
Common Tody Flycatcher
Rufous-browed Tyrannulet
Mistletoe Tyrannulet
Yellow-olive Flycatcher
Zeledon’s Tyrannulet
Eye-ringed Flatbill
Mountain Elaenia
Banded-backed Wren
Black-throated Wren
Gray-breated Wood-Wren
House Wren
Ochraceous Wren
Nightingale Wren
Song Wren
Slaty-backed Nightingale Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush
Mountain Robin
Clay-colored Robin
White-throated Robin
Black-faced Solitaire
Azure-hooded Jay
Brown Jay
Bananaquit
Lesser Greenlet
Three-striped Warbler
Golden-crowned Warbler
Tenessee Warbler
Buff-rumped Warbler
Tropical Parula
Golden-winged Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Slate-throated Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Olive-crowned Yellowthroat
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Chestnut-headed Oropendola
Baltimore Oriole
Giant Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Tawny-capped Euphonia
Blue-hooded Euphonia
Golden-browed Chlorophonia
Blue-and-Gold Tanager
Common Bush Tanager
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
Silver-throated Tanager
Green Honeycreeper
Bay-headed Tanager
Spangle-cheeked Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Crimson-collared Tanager
Summer Tanager
Buff-throated Saltator
Black-thighed Grosbeak
Yellow-throated Brush-Finch
Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch
Orange-billed Sparrow
Sooty-faced Finch
Variable Seedeater
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Slaty Flowerpiercer
Black-striped Sparrow
AMPHIBIANS
Green Climbing Toad (Bufo coniferus)
Common Dink Frog (Eleutherodactylus Diastema)
Pygmy Rain Frog (E. ridens)
Bransford’s Litter Frog (E. bransfordii)
Underwood’s Litter Frog (E. underwoodii)
Golden-groined Rain Frog (E. cruentus)
Spot-shouldered Rain Frog (E. crassidigitus)
Common Rain Frog (E. fitzingeri)
Coral Spottted Rain Frog (E. altae)
Rufous-eyed Stream Frog (Duellmanohyla rufioculis)
Meadow Tree Frog (Hyla pseudopuma)
Zetek’s Bromeliad Frog (Hyla zeteki)
Masked Smilisca (Smilisca phaeota)
Emerald Glass Frog (Centrolene proseblepon)
Fleischmann’s Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni)
REPTTILES
Ground Anole (Norops humilis)
Slender Anole (N. limifrons)
Giant Banded Anole (Dactyloa insignis)
Stream Anole (N. oxylophus)
Central American Whiptail Lizard (Ameiva festiva)
Keel Leafed Litter Lizard (Ptychoglossus plicatus)
Mussurana Snake (Clelia clelia)
Costa Rican Earth Snake (Geophis brachycephalus)
Prawn Snake (Hydromorphus concolor)
Blunt-headed Tree Snake (Imantodes cenchoa)
Side-striped Palm Pit-viper (Bothriechis lateralis)
Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper)
