BIRding
Have the best birdwatching in Costa Rica
Experience the best birdwatching in Costa Rica. Hotel Quelitales has an ideal location in the Costa Rican Highlands. Our gardens provide shelter for hundreds of birds which make it easy to do birding even from your balcony. While discovering our mountain trails you can spot almost 450 different species, including the endemic ones. We can offer you private tours with professional nature guides, so you can see more flock in less time. Of course, you can do birding on your own by following the hiking routes. Moreover, we can provide you with birding maps and books. Photography lovers will take perfect shots thanks to specially designed feeders.
Some of the emblematic birds that you can spot in the Hotel Quelitales:
- Scaled antpitta
- Ochre-breasted antpitta
- Black-bellied hummingbird
- Green-fronted lancebill
- Coppery-headed emerald
- Cabanis’s ground-sparrow
- Sunbittern
- Scooty-faced Finch
- Chestnut-capped Brushfinch
- White-naded Brushfinch
- Sharpbill
- Black-and-white Becard
- Cabanis´s Ground-Sparrow
Have the best birdwatching experience in Costa Rica.
Our local guides can organize short toursfrom the hotel to 15 diferent hotspots in Cartago Province. These tours are designed to offer an authentic and unique experience of the region, allowing visitors to discover more than 500 different species during your stay in our Hotel. If you have only a few hours to catch your flight, Hotel Quelitales will be a perfect destination to do birding near San José.
Thanks to our location, we are a paradise for nature lovers (one of the best birding hotspots in Costa Rica) and a perfect starting point. Mornings are usually the best time for flock observation – in the early afternoon, we will drive you back to our hotel where you can relax in your room or calm down close to Doña Ana waterfall.
