Birdwatching

Birdwatching Tour

The Tenorio Volcano is located at the Guanacaste Mountain Range, is a low elevation mountain system in the Northwester of Costa Rica.

Pronounce low passes allow air currents with moist air to funnel easily from the Caribbean slope into the Pacific side causing interesting climatic conditions that structure the fantastic lush green Rainforest on the North and Northeast face of the Tenorio massif. Birding around the Tenorio and Bijagua area is a great opportunity because it is a mix between the open cattle pastures to parches of Rainforest and plantation;

Its a good combination for many different kind of bird, the road from the Village of Bijagua heading into the National Park offer very good birding, providing good access to mix species flocks, potential looks of Toucans (Yellow-eared Toucanet), honeycreeper, great variety of tanager, Lovely Cotinga, Ornate Hawk Eagle, White Hawk, Black Hawk-Eagle, White fronted Nunbird, Motmots (Tody Motmot), King Vulture, Snowcap and Black crested Coquette. etc.

Our friendly, bilingual, naturalist guides enjoy giving personalized tours.

We start with a nice hike around the hotel looking for birds of the rainforest; later we take the breakfast and after it we will go on the road coming to the Village Bijagua to finish in a nice Private Reserve with 1km trail.

Tour Includes:

Bilingual Guide.
Transportation.
Refreshments.
Entrance fee.
Telescopie.

Important Information:

Pick-up location: Any hotel around Tenorio area.
Pick up time: 6:00 a.m. or 1:30 p.m
Duration of the tours: 5 hours.
Level of difficulty: Easy.

What to bring:

Insect repelent.
Hiking shoes.
Long pants.
Rain jacket.
Sunscreen and camera.

10/10 would recommend the guided bird watching tour! Marlon and his family were very welcoming and taught us all about the local wildlife.

16 days of nature with experienced, passionated and friendly guides. We saw so much cool animals like a tapir, sloth, monkeys, frogs, snakes and a lot of colorful birds.

We can highly recommend Bijagua Rainforest Tours. We did 3 excellent guided trips with them while staying at Tenorio Lodge. All the guides were very friendly, knowledgeable and spoke good English. The “Birding and Sloth” Tour on a forested property near the lodge, was great for close views and photo opportunities of toucans, trogons and a sloth. Freddie our guide had excellent knowledge about birds and other forest wildlife. We also saw lots of interesting birds and reptiles with Kevin our guide on the “Bijagua Falls” tour. It was a 2 hour walk through the forest reserve up to the falls where we could swim in a beautiful pool. There was no one else there! This was one of the highlights of our holiday! The “Cano Negro” tour was another enjoyable day. It took 90 minutes to drive to the reserve over some bumpy roads. We then had a 2-3 hour boat trip where we saw many crocodiles, kingfishers and jabiru storks. Walter our guide was great fun to be with! We had a very nice lunch with the boat captain’s family at his house next to the river, before returning to Tenorio.