Whimbrel, as we walked up the beach toward the Corcovado National Park entrance, after arriving by boat

Ruddy Turnstone

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Whimbrel

Semipalmated Plover

Least Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Semipalmated Plover

Common Potoo
After we signed in at the park entrance, our local guide José showed us this Common Potoo, sitting atop a snag nearby.

Common Potoo
Photo taken through his spotting scope by our guide, Erick Guzmán, using my Pixel 4a phone

Riverside Wren

Riverside Wren

We stopped on a wooden bridge across a little stream to watch the Bare-throated Tiger-Heron hunt.

Male Black-throated Trogon

Chestnut-backed Antbird

A Rufous Piha was collecting nesting material in the trees above us.

Rufous Piha

Rufous Piha

Female Great Curassow, in a tree

Female Great Curassow

Crested Guan

Crested Guan

Back view of the female Great Curassow, walking away from us

The male Great Curassow was there too.

The Golden-crowned Spadebill was a little bird with big eyes that stayed around long enough to let us get good looks and a few photos.

Golden-crowned Spadebill

Golden-crowned Spadebill

Golden-crowned Spadebill

Golden-crowned Spadebill

Golden-crowned Spadebill
A lot of the birds seemed to like to look at us over their shoulder, ready to fly away from us.

Golden-crowned Spadebill

Golden-crowned Spadebill, a profile at last

Common Black Hawk

Orange-chinned Parakeets

Double-toothed Kite

Double-toothed Kite

Common Black Hawk

Velvety Manakin
Photo taken through his spotting scope by our guide, Erick Guzmán, using my Pixel 4a phone

Velvety Manakin

Red-capped Manakin
Photo taken through his spotting scope by our guide, Erick Guzmán, using my Pixel 4a phone

Red-capped Manakin

Male Great Curassow

Yellow-throated Toucans
At the visitor center in the middle of the park, a guide from another group took photos through her scope for me. The two birds had been grooming each other.

There was a pair of Scarlet-rumped Caciques in the trees when we returned to the park entrance and I got one photo of one bird.

Adult Brown Booby
After our perilous, but successful, two-boat, open-water transfer to depart Corcovado, we stopped by a 'bird island' on the way back to Drake Bay Wilderness Resort, where we found Brown Boobies nesting.

Brown Booby, preening

Brown Booby
After we got home, Jerry Davis was looking at photos closely and noticed this bird has a fish hook in its wing with fishing line attached.

Young and adult Brown Boobies

Adult Brown Booby

Adult Brown Booby

Young and adult Brown Boobies

Adult and juvenile Brown Boobies

Brown Boobies

Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
Back at Drake Bay Wilderness Lodge, we went for a late-day walk on which we saw 3 species of woodcreepers, starting with this one.

The Black-striped Woodcreeper was the most cooperative.

Black-striped Woodcreeper

Black-striped Woodcreeper

Black-striped Woodcreeper

Black-striped Woodcreeper

Black-striped Woodcreeper
Not sure where it got the name. Merlin Explore describes it as having 'obvious thick WHITE streaking above and below,' that look more like white spots on a black background to me.

Cocoa Woodcreeper

While the adults were away, I got this photo of Scarlet-rumped Tanager nestlings in the nest near our room.

At the end of the day, we had some debate about what gulls and terns were sitting on buoys in the bay.

Terns and a gull, on buoys in the middle of Drake Bay.