birds

The most diverse province in Costa Rica, Limón is home to a culture rich in history, language and music that is celebrated in this photo gallery.

The people of Santa María de Fátima, a small Amazonian community in Peru, started an ecotourism project by turning a swamp close to their village into a bird-watchers’ paradise. The herons whose eggs they once consumed now attract tourists from all over the world.

Lapa Ríos was one of the first and is still among the best of the ecolodges in the Osa, if not in all of Costa Rica.

One of the most spectacular wildlife displays on the planet is happening in the skies over Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast right now: fall raptor migration and the formation of a "river of raptors." And thanks to a geographic bottleneck, one of the best places in the world to witness it is the Kèköldi indigenous territory on Costa Rica's southern Caribbean coast.

MIAMI – Poaching and habitat loss have landed the military macaw (Ara militaris) and the great green macaw (Ara ambiguus), two birds typically found in Central and South America, on the U.S. endangered species list, officials said Thursday.

Continuing last month's series, a look at five more birds that are common in the trees, telephone wires, rooftops, and sidewalks of San José.

Most seabirds have already eaten plastic in the oceans, and scientists projected Monday that 99 percent will have done so by 2050.

Despite the best efforts of many a telescope-wielding nature guide, I fell in love with birds while sitting at my desk in San José,...

As the first signs of spring emerge in North America, the migratory birds that wintered in Costa Rica begin to make their way back...