Trinidad and Tobago
January 3-13, 2006
Leader: Bill Murphy
Itinerary:
1/ 4 - Trinidad: Asa Wright Nature Centre (AWNC) grounds
1/ 5 - Trinidad: Blanchisseuse Road
1/ 6 - Trinidad: Aripo Livestock Station, Waller Field, night birding at Waller Field
1/ 7 - Trinidad: Pointe-à-Pierre Wildfowl Trust, Waterloo/Brickfield, Caroni Swamp
1/ 8 - Trinidad: AWNC, Oilbird Cave; Tobago: Cuffie River Nature Retreat
1/ 9 - Tobago: Cuffie River Nature Retreat
1/ 10 - Tobago: Bon Accord & Hilton ponds, Crown Point, Adventure Farm, Grafton Bird Sanctuary
1/ 11 - Tobago: Main Ridge Reserve, Little Tobago Island, St. Giles
1/ 12 - Tobago: Free day
TINAMOU
Little Tinamou / h / h / h / h / h
DUCKS & GEESE
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck / ●
Blue-winged Teal / ●
White-cheeked Pintail / ●
GUANS & CHACHALACAS
Rufous-vented Chachalaca / ● / ● / ● / ●
GREBES
Least Grebe / ●
TROPICBIRDS
Red-billed Tropicbird / ●
PELICANS
Brown Pelican / ● / ● / ● / ●
BOOBIES
Masked Booby / ●
Red-footed Booby / ●
Brown Booby / ● / ●
CORMORANTS
Neotropic Cormorant / ●
ANHINGAS
Anhinga / ● / ●
FRIGATEBIRDS
Magnificent Frigatebird / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
HERONS
Boat-billed Heron / ●
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / ● / ● / ●
Green Heron / ● / ● / ●
Striated Heron / ● / ●
Cattle Egret / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Cocoi Heron / ●
Great Egret / ● / ● / ● / ●
Tricolored Heron / ● / ●
Snowy Egret / ● / ● / ●
Little Blue Heron / ● / ● / ●
IBISES
Scarlet Ibis / ●
NEW WORLD VULTURES
Turkey Vulture / ● / ● / ● / ●
Black Vulture / ● / ● / ● / ●
HAWKS, KITES & EAGLES
Osprey / ● / ● / ● / ●
Gray-headed Kite / ● / ●
Hook-billed Kite / ●
Double-toothed Kite / ●
Long-winged Harrier / ●
Crane Hawk / ●
White Hawk / ● / ●
Gray Hawk / ●
Common Black Hawk / ● / ● / ● / ●
Great Black Hawk / ● / ●
Savanna Hawk / ● / ●
Broad-winged Hawk / ● / ● / ●
Short-tailed Hawk / ● / ● / ●
Zone-tailed Hawk / ● / ●
FALCONS & CARACARAS
Yellow-headed Caracara / ● / ● / ●
Crested Caracara / ●
Merlin / ● / ● / ●
Bat Falcon / ●
Peregrine Falcon / ● / ●
GALLINULES, RAILS & CRAKES
Clapper Rail / h
Common Moorhen / ● / ●
Purple Gallinule / ● / ●
PLOVERS & LAPWINGS
Southern Lapwing / ● / ● / ●
Black-bellied Plover / ●
Semipalmated Plover / ●
Killdeer / ●
SANDPIPERS
Wilson's Snipe / ●
Whimbrel / ● / ●
Greater Yellowlegs / ● / ●
Lesser Yellowlegs / ● / ●
Solitary Sandpiper / ● / ● / ●
Willet / ●
Spotted Sandpiper / ● / ● / ●
Ruddy Turnstone / ● / ●
Western Sandpiper / ● / ●
Least Sandpiper / ● / ●
JACANAS
Wattled Jacana / ● / ● / ●
GULLS & TERNS
Lesser Black-backed Gull / ●
Laughing Gull / ● / ● / ●
Sandwich Tern / ●
Cayenne Tern / ●
Royal Tern / ● / ● / ●
Common Tern / ●
Large-billed Tern / ●
SKIMMERS
Black Skimmer / ●
PIGEONS & DOVES
Ruddy Ground-Dove / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Rock Pigeon / ● / ● / ●
Pale-vented Pigeon / h / h / ● / ●
Eared Dove / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
White-tipped Dove / ● / h / ● / ●
Gray-fronted Dove / ● / ● / ● / ●
PARROTS & MACAWS
Red-bellied Macaw / ●
Green-rumped Parrotlet / h / ● / ●
Blue-headed Parrot / ● / ● / ● / ●
Orange-winged Parrot / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
NEW WORLD CUCKOOS
Mangrove Cuckoo / ●
Squirrel Cuckoo / ● / ●
Greater Ani / ●
Smooth-billed Ani / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Striped Cuckoo / ● / h
BARN OWLS
Barn Owl / ●
OWLS
Tropical Screech-Owl / h
Spectacled Owl / h
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl / h / h / h / h / h / h
Striped Owl / ●
OILBIRD
Oilbird / ●
POTOOS
Common Potoo / ● / ● / h
NIGHTJARS & NIGHTHAWKS
Short-tailed Nighthawk / ●
Common Pauraque / ●
White-tailed Nightjar / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
SWIFTS
Gray-rumped Swift / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Short-tailed Swift / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Fork-tailed Palm-Swift / ●
HUMMINGBIRDS
Rufous-breasted Hermit / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Little Hermit / ● / ●
Green Hermit / ●
White-tailed Sabrewing / ●
White-necked Jacobin / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Green-throated Mango / ●
Black-throated Mango / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Ruby-topaz Hummingbird / ● / ● / ● / ●
Tufted Coquette / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Blue-chinned Sapphire / ● / ●
White-chested Emerald / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Copper-rumped Hummingbird / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
TROGONS
White-tailed Trogon / ● / ● / ●
Violaceous Trogon / ● / ●
Collared Trogon / ● / ●
KINGFISHERS
Ringed Kingfisher / ●
Belted Kingfisher / ●
Green Kingfisher / ●
MOTMOT
Blue-crowned Motmot / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
JACAMARS
Rufous-tailed Jacamar / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
TOUCANS
Channel-billed Toucan / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
WOODPECKERS
Red-crowned Woodpecker / ● / ● / ●
Red-rumped Woodpecker / h
Golden-olive Woodpecker / ● / ● / h / ● / h / ●
Chestnut Woodpecker / ● / ●
Lineated Woodpecker / ● / h / ●
Crimson-crested Woodpecker / ●
OVENBIRDS
Stripe-breasted Spinetail / ● / h / h / ●
Yellow-chinned Spinetail / ● / ●
Gray-throated Leaftosser / ●
WOODCREEPERS
Plain-brown Woodcreeper / ● / ●
Olivaceous Woodcreeper / ●
Cocoa Woodcreeper / ● / ● / h / ● / h / ●
ANTBIRDS
Great Antshrike / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Black-crested Antshrike / ●
Barred Antshrike / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Plain Antvireo / ● / ● / ●
White-flanked Antwren / ● / ●
White-fringed Antwren / ● / ● / ●
White-bellied Antbird / ●
ANTTHRUSHES
Black-faced Antthrush / ● / h
FLYCATCHERS
Yellow-bellied Elaenia / h / ● / ●
Southern Beardless Tyrannulet / ● / ● / ●
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher / ● / ● / ● / ●
Yellow-breasted Flycatcher / ● / ● / h / ● / ●
Fuscous Flycatcher / ● / ● / ●
Tropical Pewee / ● / ●
Pied Water-Tyrant / ●
White-headed Marsh-Tyrant / ●
Great Kiskadee / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Streaked Flycatcher / ●
Boat-billed Flycatcher / ● / ● / ● / ●
Sulphury Flycatcher / ●
Tropical Kingbird / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Gray Kingbird / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Dusky-capped Flycatcher / ● / ● / ●
Venezuelan Flycatcher / ● / h
Brown-crested Flycatcher / ● / ●
Black-tailed Tityra / ●
BELLBIRDS
Bearded Bellbird / ● / h / ● / ● / h
MANAKINS
White-bearded Manakin / ● / ● / ●
Blue-backed Manakin / h / ● / ● / ●
Golden-headed Manakin / ● / ● / ●
VIREOS
Rufous-browed Peppershrike / h / ● / ● / h
Golden-fronted Greenlet / ● / ●
Scrub Greenlet / ● / ● / h
SWALLOWS & MARTINS
White-winged Swallow / ● / ● / ● / ●
Gray-breasted Martin / ● / ● / ● / ●
Southern Rough-winged Swallow / ● / ● / ● / ●
WRENS
House Wren / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Rufous-breasted Wren / ● / h / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
GNATWRENS
Long-billed Gnatwren / h / h / h / h
THRUSHES
Yellow-legged Thrush / ●
Cocoa Thrush / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Bare-eyed Robin / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
White-necked Robin / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
MOCKINGBIRDS
Tropical Mockingbird / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
BANANAQUITS
Bananaquit / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
TANAGERS
White-lined Tanager / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Silver-beaked Tanager / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Blue-gray Tanager / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Palm Tanager / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Turquoise Tanager / ● / ● / ● / ●
Bay-headed Tanager / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Blue Dacnis / ● / ● / ● / ●
Purple Honeycreeper / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Red-legged Honeycreeper / ● / ● / ●
Green Honeycreeper / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Bicolored Conebill / ●
GRASSQUITS, SEEDEATERS & FINCHES
Saffron Finch / ●
Grassland Yellow-Finch / ●
Blue-black Grassquit / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Black-faced Grassquit / ● / ● / ● / ●
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater / ●
Red-capped Cardinal / ●
SALTATORS & BUNTINGS
Grayish Saltator / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
WOOD WARBLERS
Tropical Parula / ● / ● / h
Yellow Warbler / ● / ● / ●
Blackpoll Warbler / ●
American Redstart / ● / h
Northern Waterthrush / ● / ● / ● / h / ● / ● / ●
Masked Yellowthroat / ●
NEW WORLD BLACKBIRDS
Crested Oropendola / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Yellow-rumped Cacique / ●
Yellow Oriole / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Giant Cowbird / ● / ●
Shiny Cowbird / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Carib Grackle / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Red-breasted Blackbird / ● / ●
Yellow-hooded Blackbird / ●
EUPHONIAS
Violaceous Euphonia / ● / ● / ● / ●
Total Number of Species: 211 including 7 heard-only