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Rainforest Publications' Fold-Out Pocket Field Guides are designed to slip into your pocket so that you can easily access our field guides and identify the flora and fauna you see while on your walks, hikes, and excursions through Costa Rica.

sample illustration Resplendent Quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno

Rainforest Publications' Costa Rica Cloud Forest and Highland Birds Fold-out Pocket Field Guide shows 166 of the 870 bird species recorded for Costa Rica. It includes almost all species found above 1,450 meters (many of which also occur at lower elevations).

"North American migrant" birds arrive in Costa Rica about September and stay until April, when they return north to breed.

"South American migrant" birds include a small number of species that come from South America to Costa Rica to breed.

"Passage migrant" birds pass through Costa Rica about September and around April but do not stay.

The birds which are not marked as "migrants" in the Costa Rica Cloudforest and Highland birds fold-out pocket field guide from Rainforest Publications, can be found in Costa Rica throughout the year, although many of them migrate attitudinally such that their presence or abundance at any given site can vary seasonally.

The illustrations on this fold-out field guide from Rainforest Publications were created by British naturalist, Mark Wainwright, who has lived and worked in Monteverde, Costa Rica, since 1991.

Measurements are the total average length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, of an adult bird.

The illustration of each species on the field guide is accompanied by the name of the species in English, Spanish, and Latin. On the Rainforest Publications' Costa Rica cloud forest and highland birds field guide, the letters after the English name represent the distribution with Costa Rica:

Rainforest Publications gives donations for each guide sold to environmental and educational organizations. See our About Us page a list of organizations that have benefited from the sales of our Field Guides.

One side of Rainforest Publications' Cloud Forest and Highland Birds Guide (spread flat).