The Bijagua corridor sits on the Caribbean slope, between the Tenorio and Miravalles volcanoes: wet, tall rainforest, with a completely different bird list from the dry Pacific coast. We spend five hours inside private reserves and feeder gardens at birding pace, with time to work a fruiting tree, wait out a mixed flock, and come back to a feeder when the light turns. All three toucans of the region are regular here, Yellow-throated Toucan, Keel-billed Toucan and Collared Aracari, and at the feeders they come close enough for real photographs. This is also reliable ground for Snowcap, Black-crested Coquette, Violet-headed Hummingbird and Rufous-tailed Jacamar. For experienced birders the specialities are here too: Tody Motmot, Keel-billed Motmot, Spotted Antbird, White-collared Manakin, Great Curassow and Crested Guan. Because this is rainforest and not dry forest, sloths are part of the day in a way they are not on the coast. Your guide works this corridor year-round, keeps public eBird records and carries a scope. Wild birds in wild forest: we promise the time, the access and the eye, never a species list.