Annotated Bird List, Trinidad
November 11 - 18, 1989
Leader: Bill Murphy
TINAMOU
Little Tinamou (heard almost daily, never seen)
GREBES
Least Grebe (both sewage lagoons)
Pied-billed Grebe (Arena Reservoir)
PELICAN
Brown Pelican (Blanchisseuse beach)
CORMORANT
Olivaceous Cormorant (Wild Fowl Trust)
ANHINGA
Anhinga (Arena Reservoir)
FRIGATEBIRD
Magnificent Frigatebird
BITTERNS & HERONS
Little Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green-backed Heron (called "Striated Heron" down there)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Caroni Swamp)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Caroni Swamp)
Boat-billed Heron (in Winston's powerful flashlight)
IBISES
Scarlet Ibis (largest numbers I've ever seen)
Glossy Ibis (4 of them--very rare in Trinidad)
DUCKS & GEESE
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
White-faced Whistling-Duck (3, seen at Sewage Lagoons)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
NEW WORLD VULTURES
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
OSPREY, HAWKS, & EAGLES
Osprey
Gray-headed Kite
White Hawk (pair circling PAX Guest House, perched bird along Blanchisseuse Rd.)
Common Black-Hawk (superb view at Sewage Lagoon)
Savanna Hawk
Gray Hawk (perched near Cumuto Police Station and near Wallerfield)
Short-tailed Hawk (at PAX Guest House)
CARACARAS & FALCONS
Yellow-headed Caracara
Merlin
Bat Falcon ("can't get better" views in Heights of Aripo)
Peregrine Falcon
CRAKES, RAILS, GALLINULES, & COOT
Clapper Rail (heard, Caroni Swamp)
Gray-necked Wood-Rail (brief view in flooded field)
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
LAPWING & PLOVERS
Southern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover
Lesser Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover (along Gulf of Paria, Port Lisas industrial complex)
STILT
Black-necked Stilt (several hundred at Sewage Lagoons)
JACANA
Wattled Jacana
SANDPIPERS & RELATIVES
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel (Sewage Lagoons)
Hudsonian Godwit (rare in Trinidad)
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
JAEGERS, GULLS, & TERNS
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Yellow-billed Tern (along Churchill-Roosevelt Highway)
Large-billed Tern (along Churchill-Roosevelt Highway)
Black Skimmer (along Churchill-Roosevelt Highway)
DOVES & PIGEONS
Rock Dove
Scaled Pigeon (several places in the heights)
Eared Dove (Caroni Swamp)
Common Ground-Dove (barns at Agricultural Research Center)
Ruddy Ground-Dove
White-tipped Dove
MACAWS, PARROTLETS, & PARROTS
Green-rumped Parrotlet
Lilac-tailed Parrotlet
Blue-headed Parrot (Heights of Aripo)
Orange-winged Parrot (everywhere!)
CUCKOOS & ANIS
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Sewage Lagoons)
Squirrel Cuckoo (Wallerfield)
Striped Cuckoo (heard)
Smooth-billed Ani
OWLS
Tropical Screech-Owl
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (in front of Jogie's house)
GOATSUCKERS
Lesser Nighthawk (Caroni Swamp)
Common Pauraque (on runway at Wallerfield after dark)
POTOO
Common Potoo (Caroni Swamp)
OILBIRD
Oilbird (Asa Wright)
SWIFTS
White-collared Swift (single birds, several times in the heights)
Short-tailed Swift
Fork-tailed Palm-Swift (Wallerfield, Cumuto village)
HUMMINGBIRDS
Rufous-breasted Hermit
Green Hermit
Little Hermit
Green-throated Mango (mangroves at Sewage Lagoons)
Black-throated Mango
Tufted Coquette
Blue-chinned Sapphire
Blue-tailed Emerald
White-chested Emerald
Copper-rumped Hummingbird (everywhere)
Long-billed Starthroat (daily at PAX Guest House)
TROGONS
White-tailed Trogon
Violaceous Trogon
Collared Trogon
MOTMOT
Blue-crowned Motmot
KINGFISHERS
Belted Kingfisher (high fly-by over Caroni Swamp)
Green Kingfisher (Arena Reservoir)
JACAMAR
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (male and female near Morne-la-Croix village)
TOUCAN
Channel-billed Toucan (several in tree near Morne-la-Croix village)
WOODPECKERS
Golden-olive Woodpecker
Lineated Woodpecker
SPINETAILS & RELATIVES
Pale-breasted Spinetail
Yellow-throated Spinetail
Streaked Xenops
WOODCREEPERS
Plain-brown Woodcreeper
Buff-throated Woodcreeper
ANTBIRDS
Black-crested Antshrike
Barred Antshrike
Plain Antvireo
White-bellied Antbird (heard, Wallerfield)
Black-faced Antthrush (Asa Wright)
TYRANT-FLYCATCHERS
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Forest Elaenia
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (everywhere)
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
Slaty-capped Flycatcher
Yellow-breasted Flycatcher (several times)
Bran-colored Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher (along Blanchisseuse Road)
Tropical Pewee
Euler's Flycatcher
Pied Water-Tyrant (or "tidewater tyrant" as some call it)
White-headed Marsh-Tyrant
Bright-rumped Attila
Great Kiskadee (anybody miss this one?)
Boat-billed Flycatcher
Streaked Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird (everywhere)
COTINGAS
Black-tailed Tityra (several birds, none in view for long)
Bearded Bellbird (had to work for that one; Height of Aripo)
MANAKINS
White-bearded Manakin
Golden-headed Manakin
SWALLOWS
Gray-breasted Martin
White-winged Swallow
Southern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
WRENS
Rufous-breasted Wren
House Wren
GNATWREN & THRUSHES
Long-billed Gnatwren
Cocoa Thrush
Bare-eyed Thrush
MOCKINGBIRD
Tropical Mockingbird
VIREOS & RELATIVES
Golden-fronted Greenlet
Rufous-browed Peppershrike
WOOD WARBLERS
Tropical Parula (Blanchisseuse Road)
Yellow Warbler (everywhere)
American Redstart
Northern Waterthrush (the most common warbler species)
Masked Yellowthroat (twice; along Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, in Wallerfield)
Golden-crowned Warbler
HONEYCREEPERS & TANAGERS
Bananaquit (the House Sparrow of the Tropics)
Bicolored Conebill (Caroni Swamp)
Speckled Tanager (at the crest of the Andes on Blanchisseuse Road)
Turquoise Tanager
Bay-headed Tanager
Blue Dacnis
Green Honeycreeper
Purple Honeycreeper
Trinidad Euphonia (cause for the demise of Sam's camera)
Violaceous Euphonia (or "violated euphoria" as some call it)
Blue-gray Tanager (everywhere)
Palm Tanager (everywhere)
Silver-beaked Tanager (common, but wonderful each time)
White-shouldered Tanager (seen more frequently on this trip than ever before)
White-lined Tanager
GROSBEAKS & BUNTINGS
Grayish Saltator
Red-capped Cardinal (only the second sighting for our tours)
Blue-black Grassquit
Saffron Finch (Wild Fowl Trust)
BLACKBIRDS
Red-breasted Blackbird
Yellow-hooded Blackbird
Carib Grackle
Shiny Cowbird (Wild Fowl Trust; had to search for this one)
Giant Cowbird
Yellow Oriole
Yellow-rumped Cacique (Police Station at Cumuto Village)
Crested Oropendola
Total Number of Species: 184
