PEACHFRONT SPEAKS

a bird list from Trinidad June 7-14, 2001

2003-02-23 - 1:12 p.m.

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Personal triumph: Observing not one but two Ferruginous Pygmy Owls in one day, a noisy bird which I have heard often but which previously eluded me in Veracruz and Arizona. (It is an endangered species in Arizona but I had heard but not seen this fascinating bird in Veracruz.)

Note: I do not usually list birds that are "heard only" but in the case of the Gray Hawk, which I have observed in Veracruz, Mexico; southern Arizona, and southern Texas, I felt confident enough to record it on the basis of voice only -- especially as it was responding to a Gray Hawk tape and mimicking it perfectly. All other species in my list are species that I actually saw. A visitor could probably see more species by visiting when over-wintering migrants are present.

The bird list:

1. Least Grebe
2. Neotropical Cormorant
3. Anhinga
4. Magnificent Frigatebird
5. Pinnated Bittern
6. White-necked Heron
7. Great Egret
8. Snowy Egret
9. Little Blue Heron (various plumages)
10. Tricolored Heron
11. Cattle Egret
12. Green Heron (called Striated Heron in Trinidad)
13. Yellow-crowned Night Heron
14. Scarlet Ibis
15. Black Vulture
16. Turkey Vulture
17. Gray-headed Kite
18. American Swallow-tailed Kite
19. Pearl Kite (a tiny guy)
20. Plumbeous Kite
21. Common Black-Hawk
22. Savannah Hawk
23. Gray Hawk -- heard only
24. Short-tailed Hawk
25. Zone-tailed Hawk
26. Yellow-headed Caracara (one of our sightings involved a cute young YH Caracara considering a run-over snake on the highway but getting chased away by an adult Plumbeous Kite before it could do anything about it -- this all occurring directly overhead)
27. Purple Gallinule
28. Common Gallinule/Common Moorhen
29. Limpkin
30. Southern Lapwing
31. Black-necked Stilt
32. Wattled Jacana
33. Yellow-billed Tern
34. Large-billed Tern
35. Black Skimmer
36. Rock Dove
37. Scaled Pigeon
38. Eared Dove (with young in nest)
39. Common Ground Dove
40. Plain-breasted Ground Dove
41. Ruddy Ground Dove
42. Gray-fronted Dove
43. Red-bellied Macaw
44. Green-rumped Parrotlet
45. Lilac-tailed Parrotlet
46. Yellow-crowned Parrot (Amazon) -- at last I can count the Yellow-Crowned
47. Blue-headed Parrot (Pionus)
48. Orange-winged Parrot (Amazon)
49. Squirrel Cuckoo
50. Little Cuckoo
51. Striped Cuckoo
52. Smooth-billed Ani
53. Common Barn Owl
54. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
55. Common Pauraque
56. WHite-tailed Nightjar
57. Common Potoo
58. Oilbird, a cave-dwelling bird
59. Short-tailed Swift
60. Fork-tailed Palm-swift
61. Rufous-breasted Hermit
62. White-necked Jacobin
63. Black-throated Mango
64. Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (in the right light, don't miss this one)
65. Tufted Coquette
66. Blue-chinned Sapphire
67. White-chested Emerald
68. Copper-rumped Hummingbird
69. Long-billed Starthroat
70. White-tailed Trogon
71. Violaceous Trogon (common, if you want to see Trogons, you will see this one)
72. Collared Trogon
73. Blue-crowned Motmot
74. Green Kingfisher
75. American Pygmy Kingfisher
76. Rufous-tailed Jacamar
77. Channel-billed Toucan
78. Red-rumped Woodpecker
79. Golden-olive Woodpecker
80. Lineated Woodpecker
81. Yellow-throated Spinetail
82. Streaked Xenops
83. Straight-billed Woodcreeper
84. Buff-throated Woodcreeper
85. Streak-headed Woodcreeper
86. Great Antshrike
87. Black-created Antshrike
88. Barred Antshrike
89. Silvered Antbird
90. White-bellied Antbird
91. Southern Beardless Tyrannulet
92. Scrub Flycatcher
93. Yellow-bellied Elaenia
94. Bran-colored Flycatcher
95. Tropical Pewee
96. Euler's Flycatcher
97. Pied Water Tyrant
98. White-headed Marsh Tyrant
99. Great Kiskadee
100. Boat-billed Flycatcher
101. Streaked Flycatcher
102. Piratic Flycatcher
103. Sulphury Flycatcher
104. Tropical Kingbird
105. Gray Kingbird
106. Fork-tailed Flycatcher
107. White-winged Becard
108. Black-tailed Tityra
109. Bearded Bellbird
110. White-bearded Manakin
111. Golden-headed Manakin
112. Gray-breasted Martin
113. White-winged Swallow
114. Southern Rough-winged Swallow
115. Rufous-breasted Wren
116. Tropical House Wren
117. Long-Billed Gnatwren
118. Bare-Eyed Thrush
119. Cocoa Thrush
120. Tropical Mockingbird (finder and mobber of Ferruginous Pygmy Owls)
121. Chivi Vireo
122. Golden-fronted Greenlet
123. Tropical Parula
124. Masked Yellowthroat
125. Bananaquit
126. Bicolored Conebill
127. Turquoise Tanager
128. Bay-headed Tanager
129. Blue Dacnis
130. Green Honeycreeper
131. Purple Honeycreeper
132. Red-legged Honeycreeper
133. Violaceous Euphonia
134. Blue-gray Tanager
135. Palm Tanager
136. Silver-beaked Tanager
137. White-shouldered Tanager
138. White-lined Tanager
139. Hepatic Tanager
140. Swallow-tanager
141. Grayish Saltator
142. Red-capped Cardinal
143. Blue-black Grassquit, one of our first life-birds on the road out of the Veracruz, Mexico airport and a nice friendly bird to see again with its antics of jumping in the air like a jack-in-the-box
144. Sooty Grassquit
145. Red-breasted Blackbird
146. Yellow-hooded Blackbird
147. Carib Grackle
148. Shiny Cowbird
149. Giant Cowbird
150. Yellow Oriole
151. Yellow-rumped Cacique
152. Crested Oropendola

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