Day and night raptors like hawks, falcons and owls often arrive with fractured wings caused by car collisions, electrocution, or falls from nests. Migration season brings an influx of disoriented or orphaned juveniles. Nocturnal caprimulgiformes like potoos and nighjars are often hit by cars due to their hunting habits near main roads with lights that attract insects.

Caprimulgiformes include: Potoos and nightjars

Parrots, parakeets, and macaws are among the most trafficked birds in Central America. Many arrive at the center after being confiscated from illegal captivity, while others are orphaned chicks. These birds are highly intelligent and social, requiring complex enrichment and vocalization monitoring during rehabilitation. In Costa Rica, it is illegal to keep native psittacines as pets.

Toucans are often found injured as chicks fallen from a nest, attacked by dogs or cats, or injured due to collision with cars or windows. Some arrive at the center after being confiscated from illegal captivity. Toucans had become an emblematic animal due to their beauty and colorful feathers in all pictures of ecotourism in Costa Rica.

Aquatic species like herons, egrets, ducks, pelicans, seagulls and terns are often found weak or grounded on beaches, unable to fly due to exhaustion, injury, or illness. Some may arrive after entanglement in fishing lines or habitat loss.

Passerines and other small to medium-sized birds make up the majority of our avian admissions. Many are nestlings who fell from trees or were displaced when trees were cut down. Others arrive after window collisions or cat attacks.

Passeriformes: Includes finches, tanagers, sparrows, orioles, and other songbirds.

Hummingbirds

Galliformes and Others: Wood rails, chachalacas, and others.