Trinidad & Tobago Birding Annotated Bird List, Trinidad & Tobago, January 2006

Trinidad & Tobago
May 16-25, 2007

Leaders:Bill Murphy (Trinidad & Tobago)

Martyn Kenefick (Trinidad, first day)

Itinerary

May 17 / Tobago: Southern Tobago
May 18 / Tobago: Main Ridge, Little TobagoIsland
May 19 / Trinidad: Asa Wright Nature Centre (AWNC)
May 20 / Trinidad: Asa Wright Nature Centre (AWNC)
May 21 / Trinidad:Blanchisseuse Road
May 22 / Trinidad: Western Trinidad
May 23 / Trinidad: Eastern Trinidad
May 24 / Trinidad: Blanchisseuse Road
May 25 / Trinidad: Waller Field, AWNC
Species / 5/17 / 5/18 / 5/19 / 5/20 / 5/21 / 5/22 / 5/23 / 5/24
Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui) / h / h / h / h
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) / ● / ●
Rufous-vented Chachalaca (Ortalis ruficauda) / ● / ● / ●
Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) / ● / ●
Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aetherus) / ●
Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) / ● / ● / ●
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) / ●
Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) / ● / ●
Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) / ● / ●
Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) / ● / ● / ●
Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) / ● / ● / ●
Green Heron (Butorides virescens) / ● / ● / ●
Striated Heron (Butorides striatus) / ● / ●
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi) / ● / ●
Great Egret (Ardea alba) / ● / ● / ●
Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) / ● / ●
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) / ● / ●
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) / ● / ●
Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) / ●
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) / ● / ● / ●
Gray-headed Kite (Leptodon cayanensis) / ●
Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Pearl Kite(Gampsonyx swainsonii) / ●
Double-toothed Kite (Harpagus bidentatus) / ●
Plumbeous Kite(Ictinia plumbea) / ● / ● / ●
Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) / ●
White Hawk (Leucopternis albicollis) / ●
Gray Hawk (Buteo nitida) / ●
Common Black Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) / ● / ● / ●
Savanna Hawk (Heterospizias meridionalis) / ●
Short-tailed Hawk (Buteo brachyurus) / ● / ●
Zone-tailed Hawk (Buteo albonotatus) / ●
Yellow-headed Caracara (Milvago chimachima) / ● / ●
Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris) / ●
Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropous) / ● / ● / ●
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica) / ●
Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Collared Plover(Charadrius collaris) / ●
Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) / ●
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) / ●
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) / ●
Willet (Tringa semipalmata) / ●
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularis) / ● / ●
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) / ●
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) / ●
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) / ●
Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) / ● / ● / ●
Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Gull-billed Tern(Sterna nilotica) / ●
Royal Tern (Sterna maxima) / ●
Roseate Tern(Sterna dougallii) / ● / ●
Yellow-billed Tern(Sterna superciliaris) / ●
Bridled Tern(Sterna anaethetus) / ●
Sooty Tern(Sterna fuscata) / ●
Large-billed Tern(Phaetusa simplex) / ●
Brown Noddy(Anous stolidus) / ● / ●
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) / ●
Common Ground-Dove (Columbina passerina) / ●
Plain-breasted Ground-Dove (Columbina minuta) / ●
Ruddy Ground-Dove (Columbina talpacoti) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) / ● / ● / ●
Scaled Pigeon (Patagioenas speciosa) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Eared Dove (Zenaida auricularis) / ● / ● / ● / ●
White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi) / ● / ● / ●
Gray-fronted Dove (Leptotila rufaxilla) / h / ● / h / ●
Red-bellied Macaw (Ara manilata) / ●
Green-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus passerinus) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Lilac-tailed Parrotlet(Touit batavica) / ● / ●
Blue-headed Parrot (Pionus menstruus) / ● / h / ●
Orange-winged Parrot (Amazona amazonica) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Squirrel Cuckoo (Piaya cayana) / ●
Little Cuckoo(Piaya minuta) / ● / ●
Greater Ani(Crotophaga major) / ●
Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Spectacled Owl(Pulsatrix perspicillata) / h / h / h / h
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) / h / ● / h / h / ●
Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) / ● / ●
Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) / ●
White-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus cayennensis) / ● / ●
White-collared Swift(Streptoprocne zonaris) / ●
Gray-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Fork-tailed Palm-Swift (Tachornis squamata) / ● / ●
Rufous-breasted Hermit (Glaucis hirsuta) / h / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
White-tailed Sabrewing (Campylopterus ensipennis) / ●
White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Green-throated Mango (Anthracothorax viridigula) / ●
Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Tufted Coquette (Lophornis ornata) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Blue-chinned Sapphire (Chlorestes notata) / ● / ● / ●
White-chested Emerald (Amazilia brevirostris) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Copper-rumped Hummingbird (Amazilia tobaci) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Long-billed Starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris) / ● / ● / ●
White-tailed Trogon (Trogon viridis) / ● / ●
Violaceous Trogon (Trogon violaceus) / ● / ● / h / ● / ●
Collared Trogon (Trogon collaris) / h / ● / h
Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) / ● / ●
American Pygmy Kingfisher(Chloroceryle aenea) / ● / h
Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / h / ●
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Channel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Red-crowned Woodpecker (Melanerpes rubricapillus) / ● / ●
Red-rumped Woodpecker (Veniliornis kirkii) / h
Golden-olive Woodpecker (Piculus rubiginosus) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Lineated Woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus) / ● / h / ●
Stripe-breasted Spinetail (Synallaxis cinnamomea) / ●
Yellow-chinned Spinetail (Certhiaxis cinnamomea) / ● / ●
Streaked Xenops(Xenops rutilans) / ●
Plain-brown Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla fuliginosa) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Olivaceous Woodcreeper (Sittasomus griseicapillus) / ●
Straight-billed Woodcreeper(Xiphorhynchus picus) / ●
Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Streak-headed Woodcreeper(Lepidocolaptes souleyetii) / h
Great Antshrike (Taraba major) / ● / ●
Black-crested Antshrike (Sakesphorus canadensis) / ● / ● / ●
Barred Antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus) / ● / ● / ● / ● / h / ● / ●
Plain Antvireo (Dysithamnus mentalis) / ● / h
White-fringed Antwren (Formicivora grisea) / ● / ●
White-bellied Antbird (Myrmeciza longipes) / h
Black-faced Antthrush (Formicarius analis) / ●
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet (Camptostoma obsoletum) / ● / ● / ●
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher (Mionectes oleagineus) / ●
Slaty-capped Flycatcher (Leptopogon superciliaris) / h
Streak-headed Woodcreeper(Lepidocolaptes souleyetii) / h
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum) / ●
Yellow-breasted Flycatcher (Tolmomyias flaviventris) / ● / h / h / h / h / h / h / ●
Bran-colored Flycatcher(Myiophobus fasciatus) / ●
Euler's Flycatcher(Lathrotriccus euleri) / h / h
Fuscous Flycatcher (Cnemotriccus fuscatus) / ● / ●
Tropical Pewee (Contopus cinereus) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Pied Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola pica) / ●
White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala) / ● / ●
Piratic Flycatcher (Legatus leucophaius) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua) / ● / ● / ● / h
Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea) / ●
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Fork-tailed Flycatcher(Tyrannus savana) / ● / ● / ●
Gray Kingbird(Tyrannus dominicensis) / ● / ● / ●
Dusky-capped Flycatcher (Myiarchus tuberculifer) / h / ●
Venezuelan Flycatcher (Myiarchus venezuelensis) / ●
Brown-crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus tyrannulus) / ● / ●
Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus) / h
White-winged Becard (Pachyramphus polychopterus) / ●
Bearded Bellbird (Procnias averano) / h / ● / h / h / h
White-bearded Manakin (Manacus manacus) / ● / ● / ●
Blue-backed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata) / ● / h
Golden-headed Manakin (Pipra erythrocephala) / ● / ● / ●
Rufous-browed Peppershrike (Cyclarhis gujanensis) / h / h / ● / h / h / h
Red-eyed "Chivi" Vireo (Vireo olivaceous chivi) / ● / ● / ●
Golden-fronted Greenlet (Hylophilus aurantiifrons) / h / ● / ● / ●
Scrub Greenlet (Hylophilus flavipes) / ● / h
White-winged Swallow (Tachycineta albiventer) / ● / ● / ●
Caribbean Martin (Progne caribbaeus) / ● / ● / ●
Gray-breasted Martin (Progne chalybea) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Southern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx ruficollis) / ● / ● / ● / ●
House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) / h / ● / ● / ● / ●
Rufous-breasted Wren (Thryothorus rutilus) / ● / h / ● / ● / h / ●
Long-billed Gnatwren (Ramphocaenus melanurus) / h / h / ● / h / h
Yellow-legged Thrush (Platycichla flavipes) / ● / h
Cocoa Thrush (Turdus fumigatus) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Bare-eyed Thrush(Turdus nudigenis) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
White-necked Thrush (Turdus albicollis) / ● / h
Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
White-lined Tanager (Thraupus rufus) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Blue-gray Tanager (Thraupis episcopus) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Palm Tanager (Thraupis palmarum) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Turquoise Tanager (Tangara mexicana) / ● / ● / ●
Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis) / ●
Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes nitidens) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Bicolored Conebill (Conirostrum bicolor) / ● / h
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager(Habia rubica) / h / h
Grassland Yellow-Finch (Sicalis luteola) / ●
Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) / ● / ● / ● / ●
Sooty Grassquit(Tiaris fuliginosus) / h / ●
Black-faced Grassquit (Tiaris bicolor) / ● / ●
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater (Sporophila minuta) / ●
Red-capped Cardinal (Paroaria gularis) / ●
Grayish Saltator (Saltator coerulescens) / ● / h / ●
Tropical Parula (Parula pitiayumi) / ● / ● / ●
Golden-crowned Warbler(Basileuterus culicivorus) / ●
Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus) / ● / h / ● / ● / ● / ●
Yellow-rumped Cacique (Cacicus cela) / ● / ● / ●
Epaulet (Moriche) Oriole (Icterus chrysocephalus) / ●
Yellow Oriole (Icterus nigrogularis) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Giant Cowbird (Molothrus oryzivorus) / ● / ●
Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●
Red-breasted Blackbird (Sturnella militaris) / ● / ●
Yellow-hooded Blackbird (Agelaius icterocephalus) / ●
Trinidad Euphonia (Euphonia trinitatis) / h
Violaceous Euphonia (Euphonia violacea) / ● / ● / ● / ● / ●

Total Number of Species: 206 including 9 heard-only

Other Organisms Identified

Butterflies
Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides)
Cattleheart (Parides neophilus)
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)
Cocoa Mort Bleu (Caligo teucer)
Gold Rim (Battus polydamus)
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
Orange-barred Sulphur (Phoebis philea)
Postman (Heliconius melpomene)
Red Rim (Biblis hyperia)
White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae)
White-tailed Patch (Papilio sp.)
Mammals
Brazilian (Red-rumped) Agouti (Dasyprocta agouti)
Greater White-lined Bat (Saccopteryx bilineata)
Indian Mongoose (Herpestes javanicus)
Tropical Red (Red-tailed) Squirrel (Sciurus granatensis)

Reptiles
Golden Tegu (Tupinambis teguixin)
Common Ameiva (Ameiva ameiva)
Cook's Tree Boa (Corallus enydris cooki)
Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
Richardson's Anole (Anolis richardii)
Spectacled Cayman (Caiman crocodilus)