Natural Focus

Costa Rica, with its incredible range of insects, reptiles and amphibians, birds, mammals, and waterborne life, is a teeming exhibit of the varieties of animal mating—or love, if you will.

The quetzal is considered to be the most beautiful bird in the New World and may have been the inspiration for the legendary phoenix.

As climate change and a lethal fungus threaten the existance of these tree-dwelling creatures, the Yellow-eyed Leaf Frog has had to adapt to new environments including coffee plantations and urban gardens.

Visitors to Costa Rica motivated by ecotourism should keep an eye out for one of that country’s most common and characteristic birds, the honeycreeper, found anywhere from Tortuguero to Nosara.

Thanks to the howler monkey, no alarm clocks are necessary in many parts of Costa Rica. The males, through the help of an inflating throat sac, begin their calling before dawn.

They don’t call it “Whale Island” for Nothing! Here’s the place to see bottlenose dolphins, spinner dolphins, pilot whales, and of course, humpback whales.

Keep an eye out vine snakes while pursuing Costa Rica ecotourism especially in at or near the Osa Peninsula or the vicinity of Tortuguero Costa Rica.

Caribbean coral reefs are considered by many to be the rainforests of the sea. Travelers to Cahuita will be rewarded by tthis complex habitat and dazzling array of colors – not to mention the marine life of all shapes and sizes that call them home.