Tortuguero

Name: Tortuguero
Address: Costa Rica

Costa Rica · park

Tortuguero, Costa Rica — Photo: KTWL, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap. The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

10 km zone · medium confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Tortuguero

Species: 2,837
Grid cells: 5,227
Records: 403,202

Insects 2,358
Birds 261
Bony fish 87
Reptiles 55
Mammals 40
Amphibians 36

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Tortuguero. 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

insectLC

Blue Morpho

Morpho helenor

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

Very likelyCR

reptileLC

Green Iguana

Iguana iguana

Basking in the crowns of trees along slow rivers.

Very likelyCR

birdNT

Keel-billed Toucan

Ramphastos sulfuratus

Improbable bill, croaking calls above the canopy.

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

birdLC

Scarlet Macaw

Ara macao

Pairs streaking above the beach almond trees at Carara.

Very likelyCR

amphibianLC

Strawberry Poison-dart Frog

Oophaga pumilio

Tiny, loud, and unmistakably red on the forest floor.

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

mammalEN

Sensitive · location generalised

Baird's Tapir

Tapirus bairdii

Ancient forest engineer; patience is the only technique.

PossibleCR

mammalNT

Sensitive · location generalised

Jaguar

Panthera onca

Tracks along the beach at Corcovado; the animal itself is a gift.

PossibleCR

Chances by species: Blue Morpho, Green Iguana, Keel-billed Toucan, Mantled Howler Monkey, Red-eyed Tree Frog, Scarlet Macaw, Strawberry Poison-dart Frog, Three-toed Sloth, White-faced Capuchin, Baird's Tapir, Jaguar

Most recorded here

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