Dota represents our wildlife in the Sanctuary.Tragically, a she arrived at the Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center under precarious circumstances. She comes from San Gerardo de Dota.
Find out which animals you can spot at Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center. Just navigate to our list of residents or find our about the background story of our long term residents.
At the moment there are 141 species in the sanctuary.
January 2025
Baird‘s Tapir
Black-crowned Central American Squirrel Monkey
Central American Agouti
Collared Peccary
Common Raccoon
Coyote
Geoffroy‘s Spider Monkey
Gray Fox
Greater Grison
Grey-crowned Central American Squirrel Monkey
Hoffmann‘s Two-toed Sloth
Jaguar
Kinkajou
Margay
Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
Ocelot
Puma
Tayra
Varigated Squirrel
White-faced Capuchin Monkey
White-lipped Peccary
White-nosed Coati
White-tailed Deer
Common Marmoset
Domestic goat
Falabella Horse
Geoffroy‘s Tamarin
Guinea Pig
Mini Pig
Serval
Sheep
American Crocodile
Black Wood Turtle
Central American Boa
Central American Rattlesnake
Mesoamerican Slider
Nicaraguan Slider
Ornate Wood Turtle
Scorpion Mud Turtle
South American Snapping Turtle
Spectacled Caiman
African Spurred Tortoise
Ball Python
Burmese Python
Carpet Python
Central Bearded Dragon
Corn Snake
Kenyan Sand Boa
Leopard Tortoise
Matamata Turtle
Nile Monitor
Ornate Box Turtle
Red-eared Slider
Red-footed Tortoise
Reticulated Python
Sumatran Short-tailed Python
Western Hermann‘s Tortoise
Yellow-footed Tortoise
Suckermouth Catfish
Tropical Gar
Barn-Owl
Bat Falcon
Black Guan
Black-and-white Owl
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Blue-headed Parrot
Blue-winged Teal
Brown-throated Parakeet
Collared Aracari
Common Black Hawk
Crested Caracara
Crested Guan
Crimson-fronted Parakeet
Double-striped Thick-Knee
Double-toothed Kite
Fiery-billed Aracari
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Gray Hawk
Gray-headed Chachalaca
Great Blue Heron
Great Curassow
Great Egret
Great Green Macaw
Great Kiskadee
Great Tinamou
Hoffmann’s Woodpecker
Keel-billed Toucan
King Vulture
Lesser Scaup
Lesson’s Motmot
Lineated Woodpecker
Mealy Parrot
Montezuma Oropendola
Mottled Owl
Northern Emerald-Toucanet
Olive-throated Parakeet
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Orange-fronted Parakeet
Ornate Hawk-eagle
Pacific Screech-Owl
Red-lored Parrot
Red-tailed Hawk
Resplendent Quetzal
Roadside Hawk
Ruddy Ground Dove
Scarlet Macaw
Silver-throated Tanager
Spectacled Owl
Striped Owl
Swainson‘s Hawk
Thicket Tinamou
Tropical Screech-Owl
White-crowned Parrot
White-fronted Parrot
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-naped Parrot
Yellow-throated Toucan
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Budgerigar
Cockatiel
Common pheasant
Domestic chicken
Eclectus Parrot
Egyptian Goose
Emu
Golden Pheasant
Green Pheasant
Hybrid Macaw
Lady Amherst‘s Pheasant
Lovebird
Mallard
Ostrich
Peacock
Red-legged Partridge
Red-masked Parakeet
Rock Pigeon
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Silver Pheasant
Society Finch
Yellow-crowned Parrot
Yellow-headed Parrot
these are in our Rehabilitation Center, Hospital or Release Site
145 species (October 2023)
Mesoamerican Cane Toad
Red-eyed Tree Frog
Veined Tree Frog
Inca Dove
Bank Swallow
Bare-shanked Screech-Owl
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
Barred Antshrike
Black Phoebe
Black Vulture
Black-thighed Grosbeak
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Blue-and-white Swallow
Blue-black Grassquit
Blue-gray Tanager
Blue-throated Goldentail
Blue-vented Hummingbird
Boat-billed Heron
Brown Pelican
Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge
Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow
Cabanis’s Wren
Cape May Warbler
Cattle Egret
Collared Forest-Falcon
Common Ground Dove
Common Pauraque
Common Potoo
Common Tern
Cooper’s Hawk
Double-toothed Kite
Eastern Meadowlark
Elegant Euphonia
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Golden-browed Chlorophonia
Golden-hooded Tanager
Gray-cowled Wood-Rail
Great Egret
Great-tailed Grackle
Greater Yellowlegs
Green Kingfisher
Green-crowned Brilliant
Groove-billed Ani
Harris’s Hawk
House Sparrow
Indigo Bunting
Laughing Falcon
Lesser Goldfinch
Lineated Woodpecker
Long-tailed Manakin
Magnificent Frigatebird
Masked Tityra
Melodious Blackbird
Middle American Screech-Owl
Morelet’s Seedeater
Olive-backed Euphonia
Orange-billed Sparrow
Pacific Screech-Owl
Painted Bunting
Palm Tanager
Purple Gallinule
Red-billed Tropicbird
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Red-throated Ant-Tanager
Ringed Kingfisher
Roadside Hawk
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rose-throated Becard
Rough-winged Swallow
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Rufous-naped Wren
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
Scintillant Hummingbird
Scrub Euphonia
Short-tailed Hawk
Silver-throated Tanager
Social Flycatcher
Sora
Southern Lapwing
Streak-backed Oriole
Summer Tanager
Swainson’s Hawk
Swainson’s Thrush
Swallow-tailed Kite
Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Tropical Mockingbird
Turquoise-browed Motmot
Variable Seedeater
Violet Sabrewing
White-collared Manakin
White-tailed Kite
White-vented Euphonia
White-winged Dove
Yellow-bellied Seedeater
Yellow-bellied Siskin
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-crowned Euphonia
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Yellow-green Vireo
Yellow-tailed Oriole
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Domestic Canary
Tricolored Munia
Common Raccoon
Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth
Common Opossum
Costa Rican Forest Rabbit
Derby’s Woolly Opossum
Long-tailed Weasel
Mantled Howler Monkey
Mexican Mouse Opossum
Mexican Porcupine
Nine-banded Armadillo
Northern Tamandua
Paca
Striped Hog-nosed Skunk
Tayra
Virginia Opossum
White-nosed Coati
Domestic Ferret
Black Spiny-tailed Iguana
Black-banded Cat-eyed Snake
Blood Snake
Brown Wood-Turtle
Central American Boa
Central American Coral Snake
Cloudy Snail-eating Snake
Common Basilisk
Common Cat-eyed Snake
Green Iguana
Hoffmann’s Earth Snake
Neotropical Whip Snake
Puffing Snake
Spotted Coffee Snake
Tiger Rat Snake
White-lipped Mud Turtle
Leopard gecko
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