One of the greatest joys of living in our eco-village in Costa Rica is sharing this land with the incredible wildlife that calls it home. Depending on the season—and whether it's day or night—you might be lucky enough to spot some of our furry, feathered, or scaled neighbors going about their lives.
Below is a growing list of the animals we’ve seen so far. If you’ve taken a photo or noticed another species we haven’t listed yet, we’d love for you to share it with us so we can keep this record alive and evolving, just like our community.
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Amphibians
Marine Toad / Cane Toad
Marine Toad / Cane Toad
Savage’s thin-toed frog
Savage’s thin-toed frog
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Arachnids
Costarican blue-front Tarantula
Costarican blue-front Tarantula
Fishing spider
Fishing spider
Scorpion
Scorpion
Tailless whip scorpion
Tailless whip scorpion
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Birds
Baird´s Trogon
Baird´s Trogon
Baltimore Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Barred Antshrike
Barred Antshrike
Black hawk/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Black hawk
Black vulture/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Black vulture
Black-headed Trogon
Black-headed Trogon
Blue Grosbeak/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Blue Grosbeak
Blue-black grassquit
Blue-black grassquit
Blue-black grossbeak
Blue-black grossbeak
Blue-grey Tanager
Blue-grey Tanager
Bright-rumped Attila
Bright-rumped Attila
Brown jay/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Brown jay
Buff-throated Saltador
Buff-throated Saltador
Cabanis’s Wren
Cabanis’s Wren
Clay colored thrush/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Clay colored thrush
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Collared Aracari/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Collared Aracari
Collared forest falcon/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Collared forest falcon
Common pauraque/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Common pauraque
Common Tody flycatcher/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Common Tody flycatcher
Fasciated Tiger-Heron
Fasciated Tiger-Heron
Fire billed aracari/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Fire billed aracari
Gartered trogon/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Gartered trogon
Great kiskadee/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Great kiskadee
Green-breasted mango
Green-breasted mango
Grey Hawk
Grey Hawk
Inca Dove
Inca Dove
Keel billed toucan/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Keel billed toucan
Lesser Greenlet
Lesser Greenlet
Lesson´s Motmot
Lesson´s Motmot
Lineated woodpecker/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Lineated woodpecker
Long-tailed Manakin
Long-tailed Manakin
Melodious Blackbird/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Melodious Blackbird
Montezuma oropendola/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Montezuma oropendola
Northern emerald toucanet/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Northern emerald toucanet
Northern Tropical Pewee
Northern Tropical Pewee
Olive Sparrow/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Olive Sparrow
Orange-billed Sparrow
Orange-billed Sparrow
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Orange-fronted Parakeet/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Orange-fronted Parakeet
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Piratic Flycatcher
Piratic Flycatcher
Pygmy owl/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Pygmy owl
Rose-throated Becard
Rose-throated Becard
Ruddy Woodcreeper
Ruddy Woodcreeper
Rufous caped Warbler
Rufous caped Warbler
Rufous maped wren/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Rufous maped wren
Rufous necked Wood-Rail
Rufous necked Wood-Rail
Rufous-backed Wren
Rufous-backed Wren
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Rufous-tailed hummingbird
Rufous-tailed hummingbird
Spectacled Owl
Spectacled Owl
Squirrel cuckoo/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Squirrel cuckoo
Streak-headed woodcreeper/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Streak-headed woodcreeper
Striped cuckoo
Striped cuckoo
Summer Tanager
Summer Tanager
Swainson’s Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Swallow tailed kite/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Swallow tailed kite
Tennesse Warbler
Tennesse Warbler
Tropical Kingbird
Tropical Kingbird
Turkey vulture/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Turkey vulture
Turquoise-browed Motmot
Turquoise-browed Motmot
Variable seedeater/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Variable seedeater
Western Kingbird
Western Kingbird
White fronted parrot/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
White fronted parrot
White tailed kite/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
White tailed kite
White-tipped Dove
White-tipped Dove
White-whiskered puffbird
White-whiskered puffbird
White-winged Dove
White-winged Dove
White-winged dove
White-winged dove
Yellow throated toucan/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Yellow throated toucan
Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Yellow-green Vireo
Yellow-green Vireo
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Insects
Crinodes schausi
Crinodes schausi
Giant cicada
Giant cicada
Golden Scarab beetle
Golden Scarab beetle
Isabellas´s Heliconian
Isabellas´s Heliconian
Jeweled bug / Zopherus chilensis
Jeweled bug / Zopherus chilensis
Leaf-footed bug / Diactor bilineatus
Leaf-footed bug / Diactor bilineatus
Leaf-Footed Bug Nymph
Leaf-Footed Bug Nymph
Lebeau’s Silkmoth
Lebeau’s Silkmoth
Mantis
Mantis
Monarch butterfly
Monarch butterfly
Mylotes cattleheart
Mylotes cattleheart
Peanut-headed Lanternfly
Peanut-headed Lanternfly
Steirodon Careovirgulatum Katydid
Steirodon Careovirgulatum Katydid
Stingless honey-bee Mariola-Mariquita-Mariaseca
Stingless honey-bee Mariola-Mariquita-Mariaseca
Tetrio sphinx
Tetrio sphinx
Turquoise cracker
Turquoise cracker
Warrior wasp
Warrior wasp
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Mammals
Agouti/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Agouti
Armadillo/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Armadillo
Coyote
Coyote
Fox/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Fox
Greater white-lined bat
Greater white-lined bat
Howler monkey/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Howler monkey
Kinkajou/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Kinkajou
Northern ghost bat
Northern ghost bat
Northern Tamandua/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Northern Tamandua
Ocelot
Ocelot
Opossum/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Opossum
Pizote/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Pizote
Puma/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Puma
Racoon/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Racoon
Skunk/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Skunk
Tyra / Tolomunco/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Tyra / Tolomunco
Variegated squirrel
Variegated squirrel
Vesper bat
Vesper bat
White tailed deer/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
White tailed deer
White throated capuchin monkey/w=1080,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
White throated capuchin monkey
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Reptiles
Black ctenosaur
Black ctenosaur
Black wood turtle
Black wood turtle
Boa constrictor
Boa constrictor
Brown basilisk
Brown basilisk
Cat eyed snake
Cat eyed snake
Common House Gecko
Common House Gecko
Coral snake
Coral snake
venomous
Emerald basilisk
Emerald basilisk
Green Iguana
Green Iguana
Green vine snake
Green vine snake
Green-headed racer
Green-headed racer
Mica Tigre
Mica Tigre
Skarlet Kingsnake
Skarlet Kingsnake
Spinytail Iguana
Spinytail Iguana
Terciopelo 
Terciopelo
venomous
Turnip-tailed gecko
Turnip-tailed gecko
Water Anole
Water Anole
Yellow-headed gecko
Yellow-headed gecko