Birding Pacific Lowlands, Foothills of Valle del General & Highlands of Talamanca Mts.

Our Casa Chlorophonia Guesthouse Birding & Photography Garden is in the highlands of the Talamanca Mountains about 3-4 hours from San Jose. Fom here the middle-elevation habitats, foothills of Valle del General is 1-1,5 hours drive, while the lowlands of the Pacific Region can be reached within 1,5-2 hours. Below you can find a few examples of daily outings to these areas from our base. Either we can bird locally in the highland cloud-forests or at the paramo vegetation above treeline. Or we can travel an hour further to the middle elevation foothills or even we can reach the lowlands. Please see descriptions below.

Daily birding from Casa Chlorophonia Guesthouse

Highland Birding

Our Casa Chlorophonia Guesthouse Birding & Photography Garden is located at 2750 meters or 9000 feet. We are surrounded by a fantastic cloudforest. What is more, from this point we can easily either go down to a several hundred meters lower elevation or go higher above the treeline to the paramo habitat.

Click here for description of a Highland Birding Outing with species from our base.

Foothills - Mid-elevation Birding

Generally lowlands are below 2000feet or 600 meters and “foothills” are between 2000 and 4000 feet or 600 and 1200 meters.

From our Casa Chlorophonia Guesthouse Birding & Photography Garden it is about 1-1,5 hours drive to reach good Middle-elevation habitats.
Download Foothill Birding & species

Lowland Birding Tour

From our Casa Chlorophonia Guesthouse Birding & Photography Garden it is about 1,5-2 hours to reach the tropical lowland forests in the Pacific Region. These forests and the adjacent mangrove habitats or river estuaries and the Pacific coastline offers the highest variety of habitats, thus richest bird fauna. But it is hot and humid most of the time.
Download Lowland Birding Tour & species

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Contact

Phone: Call May-October; Text all year
+36 30-645-9318 or +36 30-211-0006
Call Nov-April: +506 84961012 or 84961417
e-mails:
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Our mission

Our first priority is to save habitats & species.

Secondly we would like to share our knowledge of wildlife and encourage you to participate directly or indirectly in protecting nature.

We are also working continuously on our carbon balance with developing our 23 hectares of wildlife reserve.