Trinidad & Tobago 11/26/06-12/03/06

[Connie Sandlin]

Fifteen birders from North Texas had a great time birding in Trinidad & Tobago from 11/26/06 - 12/3/06. We observed 130 bird species and fauna, in addition to beautiful flowers, trees, and scenery.

Wish you'd been there. It was a great trip! :)

1. Little Tinamou (heard)
2. Black-bellied Whistling Duck
3. Blue-winged Teal
4. White-cheeked Pintail
5. Rufous-vented Chachalaca
6. Least Grebe
7. Red-billed Tropicbird
8. Brown Pelican
9. Red-footed Booby
10. Brown Booby
11. Anhinga
12. Magnificent Frigatebird
13. Green Heron
14. Striated Heron
15. Cattle Egret
16. Great Egret
17. Tricolored Heron
18. Snowy Egret
19. Little Blue Heron
20. Scarlet Ibis
21. Turkey Vulture
22. Black Vulture
23. Osprey
24. White Hawk
25. Gray Hawk
26. Common Black Hawk
27. Great Black Hawk
28. Savanna Hawk
29. Broad-winged Hawk
30. Ornate Hawk-Eagle
31. Yellow-head Caracar
32. Common Moorhen
33. Southern Lapwing
34. Greater Yellowlegs
35. Lesser Yellowlegs
36. Spotted Sandpiper
37. Ruddy Turnstone
38. Solitary Sandpiper
39. Wattled Jacana
40. Royal Tern
41. Ruddy Ground-Dove
42. Rock Pigeon
43. Pale-vented Pigeon
44. Eared Dove
45. White-tipped Dove
46. Gray-fronted Dove
47. Blue-headed Parrot
48. Orange-winged Parrot
49. Smooth-billed Ani
50. Oilbird
51. Common Potoo
52. Swifts (unidentified species)
53. Little Hermit
54. Green Hermit
55. White-tailed Sabrewing
56. White-necked Jacobin
57. Tufted Coquette
58. Blue-chinned Sapphire
59. White-chested Emerald
60. Copper-rumped Hummingbird
61. White-tailed Trogon
62. Violaceous Trogon
63. Collared Trogon
64. Blue-crowned Motmot
65. Rufous-tailed Jacamar
66. Channel-billed Toucan
67. Red-rumped Woodpecker
68. Golden-olive Woodpecker
69. Lineated Woodpecker
70. Stripe-breasted Spinetail
71. Streaked Xenops
72. Plain-brown Woodcreeper
73. Straight-billed Woodcreeper
74. Cocoa Woodcreeper
75. Great Antshrike
76. Barred Antshrike
77. Plain Antvireo
78. White-flanked Antwren
79. White-fringed Antwren
80. Silvered Antbird
81. White-bellied Antbird
82. Forest Elaenia
83. Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
84. Euler’s Flycatcher
85. Fuscous Flycatcher
86. Tropical Pewee
87. Pied Water-Tyrant
88. White-headed Marsh Tyrant
89. Great Kiskadee
90. Tropical Kingbird
91. Gray Kingbird
92. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
93. Brown-crested Flycatcher
94. Bearded Bellbird
95. White-bearded Manakin
96. Blue-backed Manakin
97. Golden-headed Manakin
98. Golden-fronted Greenlet
99. Scrub Greenlet
100. White-winged Swallow
101. Southern Rough-winged Swallow
102. Tropical House Wren
103. Rufous-breasted Wren
104. Yellow-legged Thrush
105. Cocoa Thrush
106. Bare-Eyed Robin/Thrush
107. White-necked Robin/Thrush
108. Tropical Mockingbird
109. Bananaquit
110. White-shouldered Tanager
111. White-lined Tanager
112. Silver-beaked Tanager
113. Blue-gray Tanager
114. Palm Tanager
115. Turquoise Tanager
116. Bay-headed Tanager
117. Purple Honeycreeper
118. Red-legged Honeycreeper
119. Green Honeycreeper
120. Bi-colored Conebill
121. Blue-black Grassquit
122. Tropical Parula (heard)
123. American Redstart
124. Northern Waterthrush
125. Crested Oropendula
126. Yellow-rumped Cacique
127. Carib Grackle
128. Yellow-hooded Blackbird
129. Trinidad Euphonia
130. Violaceous Euphonia

ALSO:

Red-tailed Squirrel
Green Iguana
Water Buffalo
Agouti
Army Ants
Leafcutter Ants
Blue Morpho Butterfly
Giant Tegu (lizard)
Amaeiva (lizard)
Ocellated Gecko
Tree-climbing feral chicken eating papaya still on the tree
Spectacled Caiman
Blue Crabs
Coral Reef / Fish
Hawkbilled Sea Turtle
World’s largest Brain Coral

Connie Sandlin
Audubon Dallas