With approximately 898 recorded bird species in Costa Rica, the country boasts one-tenth of the species of the world’s total bird population. So if birding is your passion, here’s your chance to set off in the cool morning air of the hotel’s cloud forest and gentle sloping pastures on a quest to spot your share of the more than 258 local species, including endemic birds such as the Orange-bellied Trogon (Trogon aurantiiventris), keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), and dozens of other. Costa Rica conservation efforts are offering new hope for such rare jewels of the bird world as the Quetzals, featured in one of our seasonal tours, and Scarlet Macaws, now both protected in the National Parks & Nature Reserves.