For guides & operators · Costa Rica
Get found for the species you know best.
You spend your life finding birds most people never will. Travelers can't see that from a star rating. List with Lyferr and your verified track record does the selling — in front of people already searching for exactly what you deliver.
No exclusivity. No upfront cost. You keep your own trips, your own clients, your own way of working.
Lyferr is a species-first wildlife marketplace where guides get found by travelers searching for the species they specialize in. You list the species you find, get your sighting record verified, and rank by a verified success rate — not star ratings. Listing is free; guides pay a 10% commission only on completed bookings, and travelers pay a separate service fee at checkout.
Why your best work is invisible
The guide who reliably finds the quetzal looks the same online as the one who got lucky once.
Today a traveler choosing a guide has almost nothing to go on. Reviews rate friendliness and the lunch. Tour sites list "Monteverde tour," never "the guide who actually finds the resplendent quetzal." So the work that sets you apart — years of knowing where a species is, and when — never shows up where it counts.
Lyferr fixes that by making your real record the thing travelers see first.
Three steps
From sign-up to your first booking.
- 1
Tell us your species and your record
List the species you specialize in and the trips behind them. Upload geotagged, timestamped photos as proof. This is the foundation of your Accuracy Index.
- 2
Get verified
We check your sightings against eBird, GBIF, and iNaturalist occurrence data, and confirm them with the travelers who were there. Verified beats claimed, every time.
- 3
Get found and booked
Travelers searching your species see you ranked by your real track record. They book a single morning or a full package. Payments are handled.
What listing gives you
A demand engine and a credibility platform, in one.
Demand you don't have to chase
Travelers come to Lyferr having already chosen their species. You get in front of high-intent people instead of cold DMs and forum threads.
Your record does the selling
A verified "47 of 50 trips found the quetzal" outsells any amount of marketing copy. The data speaks for you.
You stay independent
No exclusivity. Keep your direct bookings, your repeat clients, and your own methods. Lyferr is a channel, not a cage.
Specialists win here
Depth in one species beats breadth across everything. The narrower and deeper your expertise, the better you rank.
Set your own terms
Hourly, half-day, multi-day, full package. You price it. You set availability.
Built for a serious audience
Lyferr travelers spend $4,000–$8,000 on a trip and take it seriously. These are clients, not bargain-hunters.
The Accuracy Index
Verification protects the guides who actually deliver.
If anyone could claim a 100% success rate after one lucky trip, your years of real work would be worth nothing online. The Accuracy Index won't let that happen. Every sighting is backed by two-sided proof — your geotagged, timestamped photo plus the traveler's confirmation — and cross-checked against occurrence data.
We show the confidence range, not just a headline number, so a guide who's 1-for-1 never outranks a guide who's 47-for-50. The honest math favors the honest guide. That's the point.
Read the full verification method →Found the resplendent quetzal on 47 of 50 verified trips
94% · range 84–98%
Verified
The denominator and confidence range are always shown. A fake 100% can't survive here.
Everything in one place
Manage trips, travelers, and payments without the admin.
- Bookings & calendar
- See who's coming, set availability, fill gaps.
- Traveler messaging
- Talk to your travelers before they land, in one place.
- Payments
- Get paid securely, on time, with earnings visible in real time.
- Your profile
- Your species, methodology, season notes, and verified record, kept current.
Verified guide stories are coming.
We're onboarding our first Costa Rica guides now. Every guide we feature here will show a real, verified track record beside their name — because that's the whole point.
What it costs
10% per booking — half what the middlemen take.
It costs nothing to create a guide profile or submit it for verification. Lyferr charges guides a 10% commission only on completed bookings — most logistics middlemen take around 20%. Travelers pay a separate service fee at checkout, the same way they would on any booking platform, which covers secure payments and support. No upfront cost, no monthly fee, no charge for the trips you book directly.
Common questions
Your record is your reputation. Let travelers see it.
No guide guarantees a wild animal. These are verified track records, shown to improve your odds — not to promise an outcome.