by admin | May 7, 2020 | birds, Community, macaws
Reserva Playa Tortuga invites you to join the Global Big Day, this 9 of May, an annually initiative to identify and celebrate the birds that live around you. It’s a nice and safe activity to do during quarantine. You can join ebird.org for more details...
by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | birds, Community, macaws, RPT Research
We have good news for our Ojochal friends! Now you can download our updated list of the 296 birds that we have identify around Ojochal: forest, roads, beach, etc. If you have room in your phone we recommend to download the application Merlin, that is a nice tool to...
by admin | Sep 30, 2019 | birds, education, macaws, RPT Research
What is the trigger for macaws to visit Ojochal and the surroundings of the reserve? That is the main question for the research that the student Marnix van Schaik from HAS University (Netherlands) carried on during his 5 months internship this year at Reserva Playa...
by admin | Feb 11, 2019 | birds, butterflies, children, Community, education, summer club, Turtles
So, the Summer Club 2019 is over and surely the kids had a blast. They learnt not just on the theory, but also on the field, about so many species and ecosystem in generally. Some of the activities they did were: canopy at Hacienda Baru, turtle exhumation and release,...
by admin | Jan 21, 2019 | birds, butterflies, children, education, Outreach, summer club
The year 2019 arrived and with it also began a new version of the Summer Club, organized by Reserva Playa Tortuga . The objective of this initiative is to guide children and youth and promote conservation by inspiring an appreciation of natural resources near their...
by admin | Apr 12, 2018 | birds, Community, RPT Research
In January of this year, members of the Reserva Playa Tortuga, together with volunteers and neighbors, began an investigation regarding the distribution of toucans, aracaris and oropendolas in Ojochal and Playa Tortuga, as part of the Birds Monitoring Project that...
Reserva Playa Tortuga is a non-profit biological research and education center formed in 2009 by community members (“citizen scientists”) and Costa Rican scientists. read more