Early Bird Watching Tour - Guanacaste

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Costa Rica is a perennial favorite among birders and photographers alike. Early Bird Watching Tour with over 850 species of birds in Costa Rica is a great experience for those who love bird watching.

Additional Info

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

A minimum of 2 people per booking is required

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What‘s Included

Naturalist guide

Water bottle

Snacks

Fruits juice

Coffee and/or Tea

Transportation in an A/C bus

Meeting and Pickup

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What To Expect

With over 850 species of birds, Costa Rica is a great place for birding. The tour takes place on local private reserves, which are located near distances from most of the hotels. With your experienced naturalist guide, you will be able to view some of the following eye-catching species; The Cattle Egret, Crested Caracara, Laughing Flacon, and Squirrel Cuckoo just to mention a few. Our experienced guides carry binoculars and field handbooks to help you understand and learn about these magnificent birds. Witnessing these spectacular birds are optimized in the early morning or as the day cools into the evening when they are most active.

3 hours • Admission Included

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Early Bird Watching Tour - Guanacaste

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Reviews

5.00

9 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Incredible Birding Tour in Guanacaste!
U7573RFcolinb,
Nov 27, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
The Early Birding tour led by Stevenson of Jacamar Naturalist Tours was an incredible experience. Stevenson said his goal was to get us 50 bird species, and we ended with 64! Stevenson was incredibly knowledgeable, exceptionally helpful with his IDs, and he tried very diligently to help us see motmots and antshrikes, even though it was late in the tour. We even saw multiple nocturnal and rare birds as we began the tour and ended the tour. Moreover, the homemade breakfast is delicious and not to be missed! All in all, Stevenson was an incredible guide and this tour is not to be missed if you consider yourself any level of bird enthusiast and you are staying in Guanacaste!
An excellent option for birding while in Tamarindo
aulepe,
Sep 26, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
An excellent alternative for nature enthusiasts who want to do something different than hanging out at the beach all day. We spent time at three different habitats- open fields, forest, and river and saw over 40 species of birds including a black headed trogon, turquoise browed motmot, crested caracara, bare throated tiger heron, yellow naped amazon, scarlet macaw, and ferruginous Pygmy owl- all firsts for me! Our guide Gabriel was excellent, pleasant to spend hours with, and worked tirelessly to get us a look at the Pygmy owl.
Birding in Guanacaste A+++++. 😀
Jeffrey C,
Jul 31, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00
Alejandro was very knowledgeable and warm and friendly. He was able to point out over 30 species of birds with us and was great with my grandson who came long.
Phenomenal Experience
KelownaKimmi,
Mar 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
We were picked up at exactly 5 AM and spent the next six hours travelling around seeing amazing birds as the sun came up over Guanacaste. We saw 42 species of birds and were given interesting facts about the different areas, the trees, the animals, and various conservation efforts. Stevenson was knowledgable, patient, and encouraging and Luis was an excellent driver. The breakfast at the end was delicious. Highly recommend; we would come back and do another tour with them next time we’re here. Gracias!
Early Morning Bird Watching worth the early start!
W7850TRsheilak,
Aug 26, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
I was picked up at my hotel and driven to a beautiful Costa Rican Hacienda where we searched for birds and other wild life. The morning ended with a tasty traditional breakfast. Highly recommend the tour!
Great Guide
Craig J,
Jun 17, 2023
- Review from Viator
5.00
I’ve never been on a bird watching tour before, so I don’t know how it compares, but I will say that it was really good. Our guide, Mauricio, was great - seemed to really know how to find birds, pointing out birds that we had no idea were right there. He mimicked their calls, and they would answer (and also faked out the Merlin app). It was pretty amazing. One down side is that the tour is in an active cattle ranch, so you have to watch where you step. The breakfast at the end was really good too. Highly recommended.
Great birding tour!
mshau,
Nov 16, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Great guide, super knowledgeable and made the tour fly by! We saw so many birds and he was very patient the whole time. Big find of the day was a Ringed Kingfisher!
Birding
Geoffh1947,
Feb 20, 2020
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Excellent trip, David Vargas was brilliant. We saw nearly 80 species of bird by 10am. David knows where to go and what you see.
Go with Julio!
ValeriaP335,
Feb 25, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
We love birds but can't call ourselves experienced birds watchers thus finding the right guide is very important to us. Julio Guadamuz +50688249922 [email protected] is the guide that can provide proper service either to novice or professor of ornithology. Julio has extensive knowledge of birds, animals and pants of Costa Rica. Not to mention his personality - opened, with sense of humour and kind. We spent splendid five hours looking for and finding birds, talking about medicinal uses of local vegetation and observing sediment digging "industry" in River Tempisque. Thank you, Julio!