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Belize Bird List

Trips 1993-2003

Order follows A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America, Steve N. G. Howell and Sophie Webb

Tinamous:

  • Great Tinamou
  • Thicket Tinamou
  • Little Tinamou

Grebes:

  • Least Grebe
  • Pied-billed Grebe

Boobies and Gannets:

  • Brown Booby
  • Red-footed Booby

Pelicans:

  • Brown Pelican

Cormorants:

  • Neotropic Cormorant
  • Double-crested Cormorant

Darters - Anhingas:

  • Anhinga

Frigatebirds:

  • Magnificent Frigatebird

Herons and Bitterns:

  • Pinnated Bittern
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Snowy Egret
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Cattle Egret
  • Green Heron
  • Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
  • Bare-throated Tiger Heron
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Reddish Egret
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron
  • Boat-billed Heron

Ibises and Spoonbills:

  • White Ibis
  • Roseate Spoonbill

Storks:

  • Wood Stork
  • Jabiru

Ducks:

  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Muscovy

Vultures:

  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture
  • King Vulture
  • Lesser Yellow-headed

Ospreys:

  • Osprey

Kites, Hawks, Eagles and Allies:

  • Grey-headed Kite
  • White Hawk
  • Common Black Hawk
  • Roadside Hawk
  • Gray Hawk
  • Crane Hawk
  • Great Black Hawk
  • Ornate Hawk-Eagle
  • White-tailed Kite
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle
  • Black Hawk-Eagle
  • Short-tailed Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Broadwing Hawk
  • White Hawk
  • Black-collared Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Snail Kite
  • Double-toothed Kite
  • Hook-billed Kite
  • Plumbeous Kite
  • Swallow-tailed Kite

Falcons and Allies:

  • Laughing Falcon
  • American Kestrel
  • Bat Falcon
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Merlin
  • Orange-breasted Falcon
  • Barred Forest-falcon

Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows:

  • Plain Chachalaca
  • Crested Guan
  • Great Curassow

Turkeys and Quail:

  • Ocellated Turkey
  • Spotted Wood-quail

Rails, Gallinules, and Allies:

  • American Coot
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Gray-necked Wood-rail
  • Common Moorhen
  • Sora (T)
  • Ruddy Crake (T)

Finfoots:

  • Sungrebe

Limpkins:

  • Limpkin

Plovers:

  • Killdeer
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Semipalmated Plover

Stilts and Avocets:

  • Black-necked Stilt

Jacanas:

  • Northern Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies:

  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Willet
  • Common Snipe
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Whimbrel
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • Dunlin
  • Solitary Sandpiper

Gulls, Terns:

  • Laughing Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Royal Tern

Pigeons, Doves:

  • Red-billed Pigeon
  • Short-billed Pigeon
  • Ruddy Ground-Dove
  • Blue Ground-Dove
  • Rock Dove
  • White-tipped Dove
  • Pale-vented Pigeon
  • Scaled Pigeon
  • Common Ground-Dove
  • White-winged Dove
  • Caribbean Dove
  • White-crowned Pigeon
  • Gray-headed Dove

New World Parrots:

  • Aztec Parakeet
  • White-crowned Parrot
  • White-fronted Parrot
  • Red-lored Parrot
  • Mealy Parrot
  • Brown-hooded Parrot

Cuckoos:

  • Squirrel Cuckoo
  • Mangrove Cuckoo
  • Groove-billed Ani

Barn Owls:

  • Barn Owl

Owls:

  • Central American Pygmy-Owl
  • Mottled Owl
  • Spectacled Owl
  • Black-and-White Owl
  • Vermiculated Screech-owl

Nighthawks and Nightjars:

  • Pauraque
  • Yucatan Poorwill
  • Northern Potoo

Swifts:

  • Vaux's Swift
  • Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
  • Black Swift
  • White-collared Swift

Hummingbirds:

  • Long-tailed Hermit
  • Little Hermit
  • Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
  • Green-breasted Mango
  • White-necked Jacobin
  • White-bellied Emerald
  • Cinnamon Hummingbird
  • Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
  • Buff-bellied Hummingbird
  • Purple-crowned Fairy
  • Fork-tailed Emerald
  • Violet Sabrewing
  • Wedge-tailed Sabrewing

Trogons:

  • Black-headed Trogon
  • Violaceous Trogon
  • Slaty-tailed Trogon
  • Collared Trogon

Motmots:

  • Blue-crowned Motmot
  • Tody Motmot

Kingfishers:

  • Ringed Kingfisher
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Amazon Kingfisher
  • Green Kingfisher
  • Pygmy Kingfisher

Puffbirds:

  • White-necked Puffbird
  • White-whiskered Puffbird

Jacamars:

  • Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Toucans:

  • Keel-billed Toucan
  • Collared Aracari
  • Emerald Toucanet

Woodpeckers:

  • Lineated Woodpecker
  • Black-cheeked Woodpecker
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  • Smoky-brown Woodpecker
  • Pale-billed Woodpecker
  • Acorn Woodpecker
  • Golden Olive Woodpecker
  • Red-vented Woodpecker
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • Chestnut Collared Woodpecker

Ovenbirds:

  • Plain Xenops

Woodcreepers:

  • Olivaceous Woodcreeper
  • Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
  • Ruddy Woodcreeper
  • Strong-billed Woodcreeper
  • Streak-headed Woodcreeper
  • Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
  • Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
  • Barred Woodcreeper

Antbirds:

  • Barred Antshrike
  • Plain Antvireo
  • Dot-winged Antwren
  • Dusky Antwren
  • Black-faced (Mexican) Antthrush

Flycatchers:

  • Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
  • Empidonax Sp.
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Black Phoebe
  • Great-crested Flycatcher
  • Brown-crested Flycatcher
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Social Flycatcher
  • Eye-ringed Flatbill
  • Bright-rumped Attila
  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher
  • Greenish Elaenia
  • Yellow-bellied Elaenia
  • Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher
  • Rufous Mourner
  • Boat-billed Flycatcher
  • Piratic Flycatcher
  • Royal Flycatcher
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Stub-tailed Spadebill
  • Northern Bentbill
  • Common Tody Flycatcher
  • Tropical Peewee
  • Yellow-olive Flycatcher
  • Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
  • Vermilion Flycatcher

Manakins:

  • Red-capped Manakin
  • White-collared Manakin

Cotingas:

  • Masked Tityra
  • Cinnamon Becard
  • Rose-throated Becard
  • Black-crowned Tityra
  • Rufous Piha
  • Lovely Cotinga
  • Thrushlike Mourner

Swallows:

  • Mangrove Swallow
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Gray-breasted Martin
  • Tree Swallow
  • Barn Swallow

Crows, Jays:

  • Brown Jay
  • Green Jay

Wrens:

  • White-breasted Wood-wren
  • Southern House Wren
  • Gray-breasted Woodwren
  • Spot-breasted Woodwren
  • Band-backed Woodwren

Old World Warblers, Kinglets, and Gnatcatchers:

  • Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
  • Long-billed Gnatwren
  • Tropical Gnatcatcher
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Thrushes and Allies:

  • Wood Thrush
  • Clay-colored Robin
  • White-throated Thrush

Mockingbirds, Thrashers, and Allies:

  • Grey Catbird
  • Tropical Mockingbird
  • Black Catbird

Waxwings:

  • Cedar Waxwings

Vireos:

  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Plumbeous Vireo
  • Yucatan Vireo
  • Lesser Greenlet
  • Tawny-crowned Greenlet
  • Blue-headed Vireo
  • Mangrove Vireo
  • Yellow-green Vireo
  • Warbling Vireo
  • Black-whiskered Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo

Wood Warblers:

  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Ovenbird
  • Louisiana Waterthrush
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Hooded Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Yellow-breasted Chat
  • Worm-eating Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Kentucky Warbler
  • Golden-crowned Warbler
  • Rufous-capped Warbler
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • Tennessee Warbler
  • Wilson's Warbler
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Mangrove Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Mourning Warbler

Bananaquit:

  • Bananaquit
  • .Tanagers:
  • Yellow-throated Euphonia
  • Masked Tanager
  • Red-legged Honeycreeper
  • Blue-grey Tanager
  • Yellow-winged Tanager
  • Summer Tanager
  • Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
  • Red-throated Ant-Tanager
  • Green Honeycreeper
  • Scrub Euphonia
  • Olive-backed Euphonia
  • Black-throated Shrike-Tanager
  • Scarlet-rumped Tanager
  • Golden-hooded Tanager
  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Grey-headed Tanager

Grosbeaks and Buntings:

  • Black-headed Saltator
  • Buff-throated Saltator
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Blue Bunting
  • Painted Bunting
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Black-faced Grosbeak
  • Blue-black Grosbeak
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Brushfinches, Seedeaters, Sparrows, and Allies:

  • White-collared Seedeater
  • Blue Black Grassquit
  • Variable Seedeater
  • Yellow-faced Grassquit
  • Olive-backed Sparrow

American Blackbirds and Orioles:

  • Montezuma Oropendola
  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Melodious Blackbird
  • Black-cowled Oriole
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Yellow-backed Oriole
  • Yellow-tailed Oriole
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Hooded Oriole
  • Bronzed Cowbird
  • Giant Cowbird
  • Yellow-billed Cacique
  • Altamira Oriole
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Audubon's Oriole

Belize Mammal, Reptile, and Amphibian List 1993-2003
Ceiba Nature Tours

Mammals:

  • Virginia Opossum
  • Gray Fox
  • Northern Raccoon
  • Striped Hog-nosed Skunk
  • Southern River Otter
  • Fruit Bat sp.
  • White-lined Sac Winged Bat
  • Mexican Black Howler Monkey
  • Central American Spider Monkey
  • Kinkajou
  • Tamandua
  • White-nosed Coati
  • Tayra
  • Ocelot
  • White-tailed Deer
  • Red Brocket Deer
  • Collared Peccary
  • Deppe's Squirrel
  • Yucatan Squirrel
  • Spiny Mouse
  • Baird's Tapir

Amphibians:

  • Mahogany Tree Frog
  • Campbell's Rainforest Toad
  • Burrowing Toad
  • Cane (Marine)Toad
  • Vaillant's Frog

Reptiles:

  • Smoothhead Helmeted Basilisk
  • Brown basilisk
  • Crested Basilisk
  • Big Head Anole
  • Brown Silky Anole
  • Gecko sp.
  • Green Iguana
  • Black Iguana
  • American Crocodile
  • Morelet's Crocodile
  • Tabasco Mud Turtle
  • Central American Mabuya
  • Slider
  • Terciopelo or Fer-de-Lance
  • Green Vine Snake
  • Black-tailed Indigo