Birds to See in Costa Rica in June
42 species listed for June · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
42 bird species on our list for Costa Rica are recorded regularly in June. Of these, the most often recorded are Turkey Vulture, White-winged Dove, Palm Tanager, Roadside Hawk and Scarlet Macaw. New this month: Blue-footed Booby.
New in June1
Leaving after last month30
- Swainson's Thrush
- Barn Swallow
- Northern Waterthrush
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Sand Martin
- Mourning Warbler
- Least Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Western Sandpiper
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Willow Flycatcher
- Marbled Godwit
- Alder Flycatcher
- Wilson's Phalarope
- Least Flycatcher
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Sabine's Gull
- Cedar Waxwing
- Magnolia Warbler
- Common Yellowthroat
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Hudsonian Godwit
- American Golden-Plover
- Leach's Storm-petrel
Residents
(28)Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Palm Tanager
Thraupis palmarumLC
Recorded all year
Roadside Hawk
Rupornis magnirostrisLC
Recorded all year
Scarlet Macaw
Ara macaoLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Great Curassow
Crax rubraVU
Recorded all year
Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceusLC
Recorded all year
Acorn Woodpecker
Melanerpes formicivorusLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Recorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Recorded all year
Hairy Woodpecker
Leuconotopicus villosusLC
Recorded all year
Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensisLC
Recorded all year
Mottled Owl
Strix virgataLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Recorded all year
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year
Black Tern
Chlidonias nigerLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Arctic Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(12)Present outside the breeding season
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Recorded all year
Pomarine Jaeger
Stercorarius pomarinusLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Franklin's Gull
Leucophaeus pipixcanLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Recorded all year
Passage migrants
(2)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made