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.

BIRDS

• 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)