Uvita (Costa Rica)
Beach town in southern Costa1 Rica
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Uvita de Osa, is a small town in southern Costa Rica, on a section of coastline known as the Bahía Ballena.
Tourism
Wildlife
The region around Uvita is home to a large variety of animals.[3][4] Uvita regularly is regularly visited by humpback whales which come from Northern California and Alaska during one time of the year and groups that come from the south and Antarctica during another time of the year.
Birds
At Hacienda Baru National Wildlife Preserve, fifteen minutes north of Uvita, more than 350 different species of birds have been identified.[citation needed]
- Scarlet Macaw
- Green and Little Blue Herons
- American White Pelican
- Many varieties of Hummingbirds
- Many other species of birds, such as fiery-billed aracaris, collared aracaris, broad-winged hawks, great kiskadees, hook-billed kites, slaty-tailed trogons, flycatchers, chachalacas, crested oropendolas, collared forest falcons, chestnut-mandibled toucans, red lored parrots, saltators, orioles, kingfishers, crimson-fronted parakeets and orange-chinned parakeets.
Insects
- Hercules Beetle
- Scarabs
- Leaf-Cutter and Army Ants
- Blue Morpho and Glasswing Butterfly
- Thaos Swallowtail
Mammals
- Howler Monkey and Capuchin Monkey
- Baird's Tapir
- Pumas
- Jaguarundis
- Margays
- Ocelots
- Vampire Bats
- Bottlenose Dolphins
- Pantropical Spotted Dolphins
- Humpback Whales
- False Killer Whales
- Pilot Whales
Reptiles
- Green Sea Turtles
- Olive Ridley Turtles
- Yellow-bellied Sea Snake
- Green or Black Iguana
- Striped Basilisk
- Boa Constrictors
- eyelash viper
- bushmaster
- fer de lance
- Spectacled Caiman
- American Crocodile
Fish
- White-tipped reef shark
- Nurse Shark
- Cortez Angelfish
- Butterfly fish
- Parrot Fish
- Puffer Fish
Amphibians
- Giant Toad
- Red-Eyed Tree Frog
- Dart Frog
- Glass Frog
