What’s your favourite chook species?
The Resplendent Quetzal
Yellow-throated Toucan
What’s your identify, and the place do you reside?
My identify is Dionisio Paniagua C., and I reside on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Mangrove Hummingbird
What are the primary areas or places you cowl as a chook information?
Talamanca mountains and the Osa Peninsula
King Vulture
How lengthy have you ever been a chook information?
I’ve been birding for over 22 years
How did you get into chook guiding?
I as soon as had the chance to work on a chook banding challenge with Stanford College and that made me fall in love with birds.
Bay-headed Tanager
What are the facets of being a chook information that you simply like finest?
Share the eagerness of birding with individuals from everywhere in the world, study world ornithology, journey to see birds in different nations, use new applied sciences and contribute to chook conservation.
Shining Honeycreeper
Which facets do you dislike most?
It bothers me that many individuals are extra obsessive about taking a great image or seeing a variety of species, even when it means disrespecting the security of the birds, the gap and doing little or nothing to enhance the conservation standing of the birds.
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
What are the highest 5-10 birds in your area which might be probably the most attention-grabbing for visiting
birders?
- Scarlet Macaw
- Yellow-billed Cotinga
- Turquoise Cotinga
- Three Wattled Bellbird
- Resplendent Quetzal
- Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager
- Fiery-Throated Hummingbird
- White-crested Coquette
- King Vulture
- Orange-collared Manakin
- Fiery-billed Aracari
- Baird’s Trogon
Scarlet Macaw
Are you able to define no less than one typical birdwatching journey in your space? Please briefly describe the places, the important thing birds, and the approximate period of such a visit
The Three-hour tour to Rincon Bridge is a tour to look primarily for endemic birds, however as there are a number of completely different ecosystems, you possibly can see a wide range of species: Yellow-billed and Turquoise Cotinga, Riverside Wren, Mangrove Hummingbird, Fiery-billed Aracari, and Baird’s Trogon.
Fiery-billed Aracari
What different options are you able to give to birders fascinated by your space?
I’d recommend they go to Corcovado Nationwide Park, which is the very best place in Costa Rica to see mammals, and do a pelagic chook tour. I’d advocate them to come back within the dry season from January to April, come ready for prime temperatures and excessive humidity.
Summer season Tanager
If any readers of 10,000 Birds are fascinated by birding with you, how can they finest contact you?
Individuals can contact me by social networks equivalent to Instagram (nitoguidecr), Fb (Surcos Excursions), e-mail: [email protected]
