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Tom's Trip Notes

Costa Rica Bird List

February 4-15, 2004

Reference: A Guide To The Birds Of Costa Rica By F. Gary Stiles And Alexander F. Skutch

Tinamous:

• Great Tinamou
• Little Tinamou
• Slaty-Breasted Tinamou

Grebes:

• Least Grebe

Pelicans, Boobies, Cormorants, And Allies:

• Brown Pelican
• Blue-Footed Booby
• Olivaceous Cormorant
• Anhinga
• Magnificent Frigatebird

Herons, Storks, Ibises, And Allies:

• Rufescent Tiger-Heron
• Fasciated Tiger-Heron
• Bare-Throated Tiger-Heron
• Black-Crowned Night-Heron
• Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron
• Boat-Billed Heron
• Cattle Egret
• Green Heron
• Little Blue Heron
• Tricolored Heron
• Reddish Egret
• Snowy Egret
• Great Egret
• Great Blue Heron
• Chestnut-Bellied Heron
• Wood Stork
• White Ibis
• Roseate Spoonbill

Ducks, Geese, And Swans:

• Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck
• Muscovy Duck
• Blue-Winged Teal

Diurnal Birds Of Prey:

• Turkey Vulture
• Black Vulture
• Osprey
• Gray-Headed Kite
• Hook-Billed Kite
• Swallow-Tailed Kite
• White-Tailed Kite
• Snail Kite
• Double-Toothed Kite
• Sharp-Shinned Hawk
• Cooper's Hawk
• Gray Hawk
• Common Black-Hawk
• Roadside Hawk
• Broad-Winged Hawk
• White-Tailed Hawk
• Zone-Tailed Hawk
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Ornate Hawk-Eagle
• Crested Caracara
• Yellow-Headed Caracara
• Laughing Falcon
• American Kestrel
• Bat Falcon
• Peregrine Falcon
• Chicken-Like Birds:
• Gray-Headed Chachalaca
• Crested Guan
• Black Guan
• Great Curassow

Cranes, Rails And Allies:

• Limpkin
• Gray-Necked Wood-Rail
• (Clapper Rail)
• White-Throated Crake
• Purple Gallinule
• Sungrebe
• Sunbittern

Shorebirds, Gulls, Auks, And Allies:

• Northern Jacana
• American Oystercatcher
• Black-Necked Stilt
• Double-Striped Thick-Knee
• Black-Bellied Plover
• Semipalmated Plover
• Wilson's Plover
• Marbled Godwit
• Whimbrel
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Willet
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Short-Billed Dowitcher
• Sanderling
• Western Sandpiper
• Least Sandpiper
• Ring-Billed Gull
• Laughing Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Forster's Tern
• Royal Tern
• Sandwich Tern
• Black Skimmer
• Pigeons And Doves:
• Rock Dove
• Band-Tailed Pigeon
• Red-Billed Pigeon
• Ruddy Pigeon
• Short-Billed Pigeon
• Mourning Dove
• White-Winged Dove
• Common Ground-Dove
• Ruddy Ground-Dove
• Inca Dove
• White-Tipped Dove
• Gray-Chested Dove
• Chiriqui Quail-Dove

Parrots:

• Scarlet Macaw
• Crimson-Fronted Parakeet
• Orange-Fronted Parakeet
• Sulfur-Winged Parakeet
• Orange-Chinned Parakeet
• Brown-Hooded Parrot
• White-Crowned Parrot
• White-Fronted Parrot
• Red-Lored Parrot
• Yellow-Naped Parrot
• Mealy Parrot

Cuckoos:

• Mangrove Cuckoo
• Squirrel Cuckoo
• Groove-Billed Ani
• Lesser Ground-Cuckoo

Owls:

• Pacific Screech-Owl
• Spectacled Owl
• Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
• Black-And-White Owl
• Unspotted Saw-Whet Owl
• Nightjars And Allies:
• Lesser Nighthawk
• Pauraque

Swifts And Hummingbirds:

• Black Swift
• Chestnut-Collared Swift
• White-Collared Swift
• Vaux's Swift
• Gray-Rumped Swift
• Band-Tailed Barbthroat
• Long-Tailed Hermit
• Green Hermit
• Little Hermit
• Green-Fronted Lancebill
• Violet Sabrewing
• White-Necked Jacobin
• Green Violet-Ear
• Green-Breasted Mango
• Green Thorntail
• Violet-Crowned Woodnymph
• Fiery-Throated Hummingbird
• Steely-Vented Hummingbird
• Cinnamon Hummingbird
• Rufous-Tailed Hummingbird
• Stripe-Tailed Hummingbird
• Coppery-Headed Emerald
• Snowcap
• Red-Footed Plumeleteer
• Purple-Throated Mountain-Gem
• Green-Crowned Brilliant
• Magnificent Hummingbird
• Plain-Capped Starthroat
• Magenta-Throated Woodstar
• Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
• Scintillant Hummingbird
• Volcano Hummingbird
• Trogons:
• Resplendent Quetzal
• Slaty-Tailed Trogon
• Black-Headed Trogon
• Collared Trogon
• Orange-Bellied Trogon
• Violaceous Trogon

Kingfishers, Motmots, And Allies:

• Ringed Kingfisher
• Belted Kingfisher
• Amazon Kingfisher
• Green Kingfisher
• Green-And-Rufous Kingfisher
• Broad-Billed Motmot
• Turquoise-Browed Motmot
• Rufous Motmot
• Blue-Crowned Motmot

Woodpeckers, Jacamars, Toucans, Puffbirds, And Allies:

• White-Necked Puffbird
• Prong-Billed Barbet
• Emerald Toucanet
• Collared Aracari
• Fiery-Billed Aracari
• Keel-Billed Toucan
• Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan
• Acorn Woodpecker
• Black-Cheeked Woodpecker
• Hoffman's Woodpecker
• Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Rufous-Winged Woodpecker
• Lineated Woodpecker
• Pale-Billed Woodpecker

Passerines:

• Woodcreepers:
• Ruddy Woodcreeper
• Olivaceous Woodcreeper
• Wedge-Billed Woodcreeper
• Northern Barred Woodcreeper
• Cocoa Woodcreeper
• Spotted Woodcreeper
• Streak-Headed Woodcreeper

Ovenbirds:

• Spotted Barbtail
• Ruddy Treerunner
• Buffy Tuftedcheek
• Buff-Throated Foliage-Gleaner
• Plain Xenops
• Antbirds:
• Barred Antshrike
• Black-Hooded Antshrike
• Dot-Winged Antwren
• Chestnut-Backed Antbird
• Dull-Mantled Antbird
• Immaculate Antbird
• Spotted Antbird

Tityras And Becards:

• Cinnamon Becard
• White-Winged Becard
• Rose-Throated Becard
• Masked Tityra
• Black-Crowned Tityra

Cotingas:

• Snowy Cotinga
• Purple-Throated Fruitcrow
• Three-Wattled Bellbird (H)

Manakins:

• White-Crowned Manakin
• Long-Tailed Manakin
• White-Ruffed Manakin
• White-Collared Manakin
• Tyrant Flycatchers:
• Black Phoebe
• Long-Tailed Tyrant
• Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
• Tropical Kingbird
• Boat-Billed Flycatcher
• Bright-Rumped Atilla
• Streaked Flycatcher
• Gray-Capped Flycatcher
• Social Flycatcher
• Great Kiskadee
• Brown-Crested Flycatcher
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Dusky-Capped Flycatcher
• Dark Pewee
• Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher
• Yellowish Flycatcher
• Black-Capped Flycatcher
• Tufted Flycatcher
• Sulphur-Rumped Flycatcher
• White-Throated Spadebill
• Yellow-Olive Flycatcher
• Black-Headed Tody-Flycatcher
• Black-Capped Pygmy- Tyrant
• Torrent Tyrannulet
• Mountain Eleania
• Scrub Flycatcher
• Olive-Striped Flycatcher

Swallows:

• Gray-Breasted Martin
• Barn Swallow
• Southern Rough-Winged
• Swallow
• Blue-And-White Swallow
• Tree Swallow
• Mangrove Swallow
• Jays, Crows, And Allies:
• White-Throated Magpie-Jay
• Brown Jay
• Silvery-Throated Jay
• Dippers:
• American Dipper

Wrens:

• Band-Backed Wren
• Rufous-Naped Wren
• Rufous-And-White Wren
• Stripe-Breasted Wren
• Bay Wren
• Riverside Wren
• House Wren
• Ochraceous Wren
• White-Breasted Wood-Wren
• Gray-Breasted Wood-Wren
• Mockingbirds, Catbirds, And

Thrashers:

• Gray Catbird
• Thrushes, Robins, Solitaires,
• And Allies:
• White-Throated Robin
• Clay-Colored Robin
• Pale-Vented Robin
• Mountain Robin
• Sooty Robin
• Black-Faced Solitaire
• Swainson's Thrush

Ruddy-Capped Nightingale-Thrush Gnatcatchers, Gnatwrens, And Old World Warblers:

• Long-Billed Gnatwren
• Silky-Flycatchers:
• Long-Tailed Silky-Flycatcher
• Black-And-Yellow Silky-
• Flycatcher

Vireos, Greenlets, Shrike-Vireos, And Peppershrikes:

• Rufous-Browed Peppershrike
• Yellow-Winged Vireo
• Yellow-Throated Vireo
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Brown-Capped Vireo
• Tawny-Crowned Greenlet

Bananaquit:

• Bananaquit
• Warblers:
• Black-And-White Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler
• Flame-Throated Warbler
• Tropical Parula
• Yellow Warbler
• Mangrove Warbler
• Townsend's Warbler
• Black-Throated Green Warbler
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Chestnut-Sided Warbler
• Ovenbird
• Northern Waterthrush
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Kentucky Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Masked Yellowthroat
• Wilson's Warbler
• American Redstart
• Slate-Throated Redstart
• Collared Redstart
• Three-Striped Warbler
• Golden-Crowned Warbler
• Black-Cheeked Warbler
• Rufous-Capped Warbler
• Buff-Rumped Warbler
• American Orioles And

Blackbirds:

• Chestnut-Headed Oropendola
• Montezuma Oropendola
• Scarlet-Rumped Cacique
• Bronzed Cowbird
• Melodious Blackbird
• Great-Tailed Grackle
• Black-Cowled Oriole
• Spot-Breasted Oriole
• Baltimore Oriole
• Streak-Backed Oriole
• Eastern Meadowlark

Tanagers And Honeycreepers:

• Golden-Browed Chlorophonia
• Tawny-Capped Euphonia
• Yellow-Throated Euphonia
• Olive-Backed Euphonia
• Emerald Tanager
• Speckled Tanager
• Silver-Throated Tanager
• Golden-Hooded Tanager
• Bay-Headed Tanager
• Spangle-Cheeked Tanager
• Green Honeycreeper
• Red-Legged Honeycreeper
• Shining Honeycreeper
• Blue- Gray Tanager
• Palm Tanager
• Crimson-Collared Tanager
• Summer Tanager
• Flame-Colored Tanager
• Red-Throated Ant-Tanager
• White-Lined Tanager
• White-Shouldered Tanager
• Scarlet-Rumped Tanager (?)
• Common Bush-Tanager
• Sooty-Capped Bush-Tanager

New World Sparrows, Finches, Grosbeaks, And Allies:

• Black-Headed Saltator
• Buff-Throated Saltator
• Black-Faced Grosbeak
• Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
• Indigo Bunting
• Yellow-Faced Grassquit
• Variable Seedeater
• Blue-Black Grassquit
• Slaty Flowerpiercer
• Yellow-Thighed Finch
• Chestnut ­capped Brush-Finch
• Orange-Billed Sparrow
• Black-Striped Sparrow
• White-Eared Ground-Sparrow
• Stripe-Headed Sparrow
• Rufous-Collared Sparrow
• Siskins, Canaries, Finches, And

Allies:

• Yellow-Bellied Siskin
• Old World Sparrows:
• House Sparrow

Mammals:

• Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth
• Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth
• Tamandua (collared anteater)
• Long-nosed Bat
• White-lined Sac-winged Bat
• Ghost Bat
• Honduran White Tent Bat
• White-throated Capuchin
• Mantled Howler Monkey
• Central American Spider Monkey
• White-nosed Coati
• Southern River Otter
• White-tailed Deer
• Deppe's Squirrel
• Variegated Squirrel
• Central American Agouti
• Nine-banded Long-nosed Armadillo
• Brazilian Rabbit

Reptiles and Amphibians:

• House Gecko
• Brown Basilisk
• Emerald Basilisk
• Whip-tail Lizard
• Spectacled Caiman
• American Crocodile
• Hog-nosed Pit Viper
• Green Vine Snake
• Central American River Turtle
• Green Iguana
• Ctenosaur (black iguana)
• Rain Frog
• Strawberry Poison Dart Frog
• Red-eyed Tree Frog

Butterflies:

• Blue Morpho
• Owl
• Zebra Longwing
• Heliconia Sps.
• Postman
• Tiger
• Julia
• Fatima

Insects:

• Golden Beetle
• Helicopter Damselfly
• Leaf Cutter Ants
• Army Ants
• Bullet Ants