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a bird list from Trinidad June 7-14, 2001 2003-02-23 - 1:12 p.m. Visit here for the story and pictures of our trip to Trinidad. 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: Least Grebe Neotropical Cormorant Anhinga Magnificent Frigatebird Pinnated Bittern White-necked Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron (various plumages) Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron (called Striated Heron in Trinidad) Yellow-crowned Night Heron Scarlet Ibis Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Gray-headed Kite American Swallow-tailed Kite Pearl Kite (a tiny guy) Plumbeous Kite Common Black-Hawk Savannah Hawk Gray Hawk -- heard only Short-tailed Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk 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) Purple Gallinule Common Gallinule/Common Moorhen Limpkin Southern Lapwing Black-necked Stilt Wattled Jacana Yellow-billed Tern Large-billed Tern Black Skimmer Rock Dove Scaled Pigeon Eared Dove (with young in nest) Common Ground Dove Plain-breasted Ground Dove Ruddy Ground Dove Gray-fronted Dove Red-bellied Macaw Green-rumped Parrotlet Lilac-tailed Parrotlet Yellow-crowned Parrot (Amazon) -- at last I can count the Yellow-Crowned Blue-headed Parrot (Pionus) Orange-winged Parrot (Amazon) Squirrel Cuckoo Little Cuckoo Striped Cuckoo Smooth-billed Ani Common Barn Owl Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Common Pauraque WHite-tailed Nightjar Common Potoo Oilbird, a cave-dwelling bird Short-tailed Swift Fork-tailed Palm-swift Rufous-breasted Hermit White-necked Jacobin Black-throated Mango Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (in the right light, don't miss this one) Tufted Coquette Blue-chinned Sapphire White-chested Emerald Copper-rumped Hummingbird Long-billed Starthroat White-tailed Trogon Violaceous Trogon (common, if you want to see Trogons, you will see this one) Collared Trogon Blue-crowned Motmot Green Kingfisher American Pygmy Kingfisher Rufous-tailed Jacamar Channel-billed Toucan Red-rumped Woodpecker Golden-olive Woodpecker Lineated Woodpecker Yellow-throated Spinetail Streaked Xenops Straight-billed Woodcreeper Buff-throated Woodcreeper Streak-headed Woodcreeper Great Antshrike Black-created Antshrike Barred Antshrike Silvered Antbird White-bellied Antbird Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Scrub Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Elaenia Bran-colored Flycatcher Tropical Pewee Euler's Flycatcher Pied Water Tyrant White-headed Marsh Tyrant Great Kiskadee Boat-billed Flycatcher Streaked Flycatcher Piratic Flycatcher Sulphury Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Gray Kingbird Fork-tailed Flycatcher White-winged Becard Black-tailed Tityra Bearded Bellbird White-bearded Manakin Golden-headed Manakin Gray-breasted Martin White-winged Swallow Southern Rough-winged Swallow Rufous-breasted Wren Tropical House Wren Long-Billed Gnatwren Bare-Eyed Thrush Cocoa Thrush Tropical Mockingbird (finder and mobber of Ferruginous Pygmy Owls) Chivi Vireo Golden-fronted Greenlet Tropical Parula Masked Yellowthroat Bananaquit Bicolored Conebill Turquoise Tanager Bay-headed Tanager Blue Dacnis Green Honeycreeper Purple Honeycreeper Red-legged Honeycreeper Violaceous Euphonia Blue-gray Tanager Palm Tanager Silver-beaked Tanager White-shouldered Tanager White-lined Tanager Hepatic Tanager Swallow-tanager Grayish Saltator Red-capped Cardinal 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 Sooty Grassquit Red-breasted Blackbird Yellow-hooded Blackbird Carib Grackle Shiny Cowbird Giant Cowbird Yellow Oriole Yellow-rumped Cacique Crested Oropendola back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford