Test your knowledge of Costa Rican birds with the quiz below!

Photo Quiz A
Photo Quiz A

Photo Quiz B
Photo Quiz B
1) Identify the bird in Photo A.
Collared Forest-Falcon
Slaty-backed Forest Falcon
Bicolored Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
2) Identify the bird in photo B.
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Bright-rumped Attila
Piratic Flycatcher
Streaked Flycatcher

3) Which of the following species is NOT regularly found in the dry forest of Guanacaste?
Long-tailed Manakin
Yellow-olive Flycatcher
Yellow-naped Parrot
Black-striped Sparrow
4) Which species is a year around resident in Costa Rica?
Red-eyed Vireo
Meadow Lark
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler

5) Which species is NOT found on the South Pacific Slope?
Lovely Cotinga
Fiery-billed Aracari
Yellow-billed Cotinga
Scarlet Macaw
6) The Gray-headed Piprites is only found in...
The high mountains
The North Pacific Region
The Caribbean Slope
The South Pacific Region

7) Which species would you not expect to find while birding high atop the Talamanca Mountains?
Spotted Wood-Quail
Barred Becard
Long-tailed Tyrant
Wrenthrush
8) Which of the following species is a mangrove specialist?
Panama Flycatcher
Yellow-green Vireo
Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Bicolored Antbird

9) Which of the following look-alike species are not closely related?
Rufous Piha and Rufous Mourner
Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher and Black-tailed Flycatcher
Collared Aracari and Fiery-billed Aracari
Common Potoo and Northern Potoo
10) The 'Mangrove Warbler' is considered a sub-species of the...
Northern Waterthrush
Yellow Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Canada Warbler

11) Which wren is most often found in the forest canopy?
Song Wren
Stripe-breasted Wren
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren
Ochraceous Wren
12) Which Bush-Tanager species occupies the lowest elevational range in Costa Rica?
Common Bush-Tanager
Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager
Ashy-throated Bush-Tanager

13) Which species of antbird is most closely associated with army ants?
Immaculate Antbird
Dull-mantled Antbird
Bare-crowned Antbird
Ocellated Antbird
14) Which kingfisher is NOT found on the Pacific side of the country?
Ringed Kingfisher
Green-and-rufous Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher
American Pygmy Kingfisher

15) Which species nests colonially?
Montezuma Oropendola
Emerald Toucanet
Clay Colored Thrush
Palm Tanager
16) If you saw a Red-faced Spinetail, Slaty-capped Flycatcher and a Black-faced Solitaire, you are most likely birding at what elevation?
Sea Level
600 meters
1200 meters
3000 meters

17) Which of the following species does NOT form Leks?
Long-billed Hermit
Orange-collared Manakin
Bare-necked Umbrellabird
Spangle-cheeked Tanager
18) Which species migrates north to breed in Costa Rica?
Roadside Hawk
Lesser Ground-Cuckoo
Yellow-green Vireo
Bare-crowned Antbird

19) The Resplendent Quetzal can only be found in Costa Rica.
True
False
20) A Jabiru is larger than a Wood Stork.
True
False