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Bird Species Seen

The birders among you may be interested in our list of seen and positively identified birds from Trinidad and Venezuela. Most were seen at the Asa Wright Nature Preserve; some at the Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust, Scotland Bay, and Chacachacare, Trinidad as well as various spots in Venezuela. The list is certainly not as big as it might be since there are over a dozen species of hummingbirds found at Asa Wright alone.

Trinidad

Asa Wright Nature Preserve

    2001
  • Osprey
  • Ornate Hawk-Eagle
  • Yellow Oriole
  • Blue-gray Tanager
  • White Lined Tanager
  • Silver Beaked Tanager
  • Palm Tanager
  • Turquoise Tanager
  • White Lined Tanager
  • Yellow Hooded Blackbird
  • Green Honeycreeper
  • Purple Honeycreeper
  • Ruddy Dove
  • Channel Billed Toucan
  • Tufted Coquette
  • White-chested Emerald
  • Rufous Breasted Hermit
  • Long Billed Starthroat
  • White Necked Jacobin
  • Copper Rumped Hummingbird

  • Violaceous Trogon
  • Crested Oropendula
  • Violaceous Euphonia
  • Blue Crested Mot-mot
  • Orange Winged Parrot
  • White Bearded Manakin
  • Golden Olive Woodpecker
  • Chestnut Woodpecker
  • Bearded Bellbird
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Boat-billed Flycatcher
  • Tropical Mockingbird
  • Bananaquit
  • Great Antshrike
  • Barred Antshrike
  • Buff Throated Woodcreeper
  • Oilbird
  • Streaked Flycatcher
  • Southern Housewren
  • Bare Eyed Thrush
    2002
  • Red-Legged Honeycreeper
  • Green Hermit Hummingbird
  • Golden Crowned Warbler (on it's nest)
  • Blue Dacnis
  • Golden Headed Manakin
  • Bay Headed Tanager
  • Cocoa Thrush
  • Black Tailed Tatyras
    2003
  • Double Toothed Kite, 3/2003
  • Collared Trogon, 3/2003

Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust

    2001
  • White Ibis
  • Whistling Duck
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Striated Heron
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Fulvous Duck

  • Anhinga
  • Green Kingfisher
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Common Gallinule
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Wattled Jakana

Caroni Swamp
    2001
  • White Egret
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Black Throated Mango


  • 6/2002
  • Green Throated Mango

Scotland Bay
    2001
  • Black Snail Kite

Chaguaramas
    2001
  • Black Vulture (called Corbeau locally)


  • 6/2002
  • Black Skimmer
  • Groove Billed Ani

Chacachacare
    12/2002
  • Gray Headed Kite
  • Great Black Hawk


Venezuela

Golfo de Cariaco
    10/2002
  • White Winged Swallow, Laguna Grande del Obispo
  • Yellow Tailed Oriole, Medregal Village
  • Green and Rufous Kingfisher, Lagoon de Cariaco
  • Amazon Kingfisher, Rio Cariaco

Isla La Blanquilla
    11/2002
  • Crested Caracara


  • 5/2003
  • Yellow Crowned Night Heron
  • Dark Billed Cuckoo (flew onto the boat)
  • Yellow Warbler (northern migrant)

Islas Los Roques
    9/2003-10/2003
  • Least Tern, Nordisqui
  • Brown Noddy, Gran Roque
  • Rufescent Tiger-Heron, Sarqui
  • Wilsons Plover, Cayo de Agua
  • Blackpoll Warbler (flew onto the boat-northern migrant), Crasqui
  • Great Blue Heron, Cayo de Agua
  • Ruddy Turnstone, Cayo de Agua
  • Willet, Cayo de Agua
  • Lesser Noddy, Gran Roque
  • Common Tern, Crasqui
  • Brown Booby, West Cay


  • 10/2004
  • Roseate Tern, Crasqui
  • Sanderling, Cayo de Agua


  • 8/2005
  • American Oystercatcher, Crasqui

Islas Las Aves
    10/2003
  • Red Footed Booby
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Yellow Warbler


  • 10/2004
  • Lesser Yellowlegs


  • 8/2005
  • Royal Tern