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Spotting Costa Rica Wildlife

Photos of some of the exotic Costa Rica wildlife you will spot while taking an ecotour in the Osa Peninsula’s rainforest.

Monkey Business
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Monkey Business

Blue Eyed Parrot
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Blue Eyed Parrot about to say something?

Wildlife Odd Couple
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Odd Couple

Butterfly
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The elegant beauty of a butterfly

Scarlet Macaw
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Costa Rica’s Treasured Scarlet Macaw

White Faced Capuchin Monkey
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 Such a Cute Baby Face: White Faced Capuchin Monkey

Butterfly and Flower
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 A Delicate Pair: Butterfly and Flower

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Sportfishing Calendar

January

Tuna, marlin and dorado taper off. Number of sailfish begins to increase.

February

Prime time for sailfish. Occassional marlin, tuna or dorado.

March

Prime time for sailfish.

April

Sailfish numbers drop mid-April and some marlin begin to appear.

May

Slower for billfish. Typically we start seeing schools of spinner dolphins with yellowfin tuna.

June

Slower for billfish. Spinner dolphins with yellowfin tuna.

July

Marlin begin to appear. A chance for black marlin as well as blues and striped marlin. A chance for tuna.

August

Marlin and tuna.

September

Slower for billfish. A chance for tuna and dorado.

October

Dorado begin to appear in numbers with marlin close behind.

November

A mixed bag of dorado, marlin and some big tuna.

December

Marlin, dorado, tuna and sailfish are all possibilities.