Manuel Antonio

Name: Manuel Antonio
Address: Costa Rica

Costa Rica · park

Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica — Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

No gazetted boundary is drawn for Manuel Antonio, so the counts below cover an approximate area centred on 9.39°, -84.14°.

10 km zone · medium confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Manuel Antonio

Species: 2,117
Grid cells: 3,098
Records: 537,903

Insects 1,531
Birds 406
Reptiles 58
Bony fish 47
Amphibians 43
Mammals 32

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Manuel Antonio. Cells are up to 25 km across, so an animal counted here may have been recorded just outside the boundary. This is not a park checklist, and the counts follow where people look as much as what lives there.

Likely encounters

reptileLC

Green Iguana

Iguana iguana

Basking in the crowns of trees along slow rivers.

Very likelyCR

mammalVU

Mantled Howler Monkey

Alouatta palliata

The sound of the neotropics at first light.

Very likelyCR

amphibianLC

Red-eyed Tree Frog

Agalychnis callidryas

Night walks after rain, leaves at eye level.

Very likelyCR

birdNT

Sensitive · location generalised

Resplendent Quetzal

Pharomachrus mocinno

The green-and-scarlet emblem of the cloud forest, tail streaming behind.

Very likelyCR

birdLC

Scarlet Macaw

Ara macao

Pairs streaking above the beach almond trees at Carara.

Very likelyCR

mammalLC

Three-toed Sloth

Bradypus variegatus

Slow-motion cecropia specialists: look up, then look up again.

Very likelyCR

mammalVU

White-faced Capuchin

Cebus imitator

Clever, curious troops. Do not feed them, ever.

Very likelyCR

insectLC

Blue Morpho

Morpho helenor

Electric blue flashes down forest paths, impossible to photograph in flight.

LikelyCR

birdNT

Keel-billed Toucan

Ramphastos sulfuratus

Improbable bill, croaking calls above the canopy.

LikelyCR

Chances by species: Green Iguana, Mantled Howler Monkey, Red-eyed Tree Frog, Resplendent Quetzal, Scarlet Macaw, Three-toed Sloth, White-faced Capuchin, Blue Morpho, Keel-billed Toucan

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Manuel Antonio, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.