Costa Rica

Costa Rica's Drake Bay, on the biodiverse Osa Peninsula, gives access to the productive Eastern Tropical Pacific where the warm North Equatorial Counter-Current concentrates an exceptional seabird assemblage. Offshore trips regularly find four booby species — Red-footed, Nazca, Masked, and Blue-footed — alongside Red-billed Tropicbird, Magnificent Frigatebird, and Pomarine Jaeger. Wedge-rumped, Black, and Least Storm-Petrels dance over the swells, while Galapagos, Wedge-tailed, and Pink-footed Shearwaters pass on migration, and dolphins, sea turtles, and occasional Whale Sharks round out one of Central America's most species-rich pelagic destinations.