My name is Mark Lockwood and my wife and I spent two nights at POAS VOLCANO LODGE. We enjoyed the Lodge very much. We are very interested in birds and found a great variety on the grounds of the Lodge. This information may be of great value to other visitors. Below is a list of the birds and we saw within the yard or the lodge and the small forest patch surrounding the Lodge. I hope this is helpful.
Inventory of Vegetation Species-characteristic of Poás Volcano (this list includes only some examples from a complete list of 578 species in 79 families)
Mark and Cindy Lockwood
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Black and White Warbler - 2
Blue and white Swallow - 20
Brown Jay - 1
Cattle Egret - various
Chestnut-capped Brush Finch - 1
Collared Redstart - 4
Golden-browed Chrorophonia - 2
Great kisdadee - 4
Gray-breasted Wood Wren - 8
Green-crowned Brilliant - 2 females
Long-tailed Silky flycatcher - 6
Long-tailed Hermit - 1
Mountain Robin - 11
Prong-billed Barbet - 1
Purple-throated Mountain-Gem - 8 on the trail.
Red-faced Spine Tail - 4
Red-tailed hawk - 2 and the rufous flanks characteristic of the resident subspecies
Ruddy Tree runner - 4
Ruddy Pigeon - 4 in the morning
Rufous-collared Sparrow - Common in the pastureland and along the roads
