An ideal location for spotting tanagers, honeycreepers, toucans, saltators, vireos and more.
After a cup of coffee, you will take you by car to the Wildlife Refuge Baru Research Center a couple of kilometers away. From there you will hike through secondary forest with your sharp-eyed guide.
After about an hour you will arrive at rookery where egrets, herons and ibis are often found. From the rookery you will continue along the edge of the mangrove and complete the loop back to the Biological Research Center.
You will have a typical Costa Rican breakfast at the Biological Research Center. The final leg of the tour includes secondary forest and the beach, your best opportunities to observe shore birds such as whimbrels, plovers, phalaropes, sandpipers and sanderlings, pelicans and frigate birds. From the beach it is a short walk back to the Guide Center, where you began.
5 Hours. Departure 6:00 am
Guide, Naturalist Guide, Admission Fee to Hacienda Barú National Wildlife Refuge, Bird Watching Tower, Breakfast, and the Medicinal Plant Garden.
Hiking Shoes or Tennis Shoes, Binoculars, Sunblock, Hat, Camera, Water Bottle, and Bug Spray.
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