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Trinidad & Tobago

January 3 - 13, 2006
Leader: Bill Murphy

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Itinerary:
January  4 - Trinidad: Asa Wright Nature Centre (AWNC) grounds
January  5 - Trinidad: Blanchisseuse Road
January  6 - Trinidad: Aripo Livestock Station, Waller Field, night birding at Waller Field
January  7 - Trinidad: Pointe-à-Pierre Wildfowl Trust, Waterloo/Brickfield, Caroni Swamp
January  8 - Trinidad: AWNC, Oilbird Cave; Tobago: Cuffie River Nature Retreat
January  9 - Tobago: Cuffie River Nature Retreat
January 10 - Tobago: Bon Accord & Hilton ponds, Crown Point, Adventure Farm, Grafton Bird Sanctuary
January 11 - Tobago: Main Ridge Reserve, Little Tobago Island, St. Giles
January 12 - Tobago: Free day

Species  1/4  1/5  1/6  1/7  1/8  1/9  1/10  1/11
 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

Other Organisms Identified (excluding insects, other than butterflies)

Butterflies
Anartia Butterfly, Anartia amather
Caribbean Buckeye, Junonia evarete
Cloudless Sulphur, Phoebis sennae
Giant Morpho, Morpho peleides
Long-tailed Skipper, Urbanus proteus
Monarch, Danaus plexippus
Owl butterfly, Caligo teucer
Postman, Heliconius melpomene
White Peacock Butterfly, Anartia jatrophaes
White-tailed Patch, Papilio sp.

Mammals
Black-eared Opossum, Didelphis marsupialis
Brazilian (Red-rumped) Agouti, Dasyprocta agouti
Greater White-lined (Sac-winged) Bat, Saccopteryx bilineata
Tropical Red (Red-tailed) Squirrel, Sciurus granatensis
Indian Mongoose, Herpestes javanicus

Reptiles
Black Tegu, Tupinambis teguixin
Common Ameiva, Ameiva ameiva
Cook's Tree Boa, Corallus enydris cooki
Green Iguana, Iguana iguana
House Gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus