Birds found during FONT Birding Tours 
in the Caribbean

in the Lesser Antilles
(St. Lucia, St. Vincent, 
 Dominica, & Barbados)

in 2004 

in February - March 
& in July

List compiled by Armas Hill



Codes:

1:   February 28 - March 7, 2004
     in Saint Lucia (sl)
     in Saint Vincent (sv)
     in Domincia (dm)
     

2:  July 14-17, 2004
     in Saint Vincent (sv) 
     in Barbados (bd)   
       
 
(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International.
(t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.
(i): introduced species.
 (e): endemic to the particular island (SL: St. Lucia, SV: St, Vincent, DM: Dominica)
(r/LA): rare in the Lesser Antilles 
(r/WI): rare in the West Indies    
(h): heard only

Links:

Cumulative List of Birds during our Tours in the Lesser Antilles

Upcoming Caribbean Tours


Bird-List:
  1. White-tailed Tropicbird - 1:dm
  2. Brown Pelican - 1:dm
  3. Brown Booby - 1:sl,dm  2:sv
  4. Red-footed Booby - 2:sv
  5. Magnificent Frigatebird - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:sv
  6. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2:cc
  7. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 1:sl
  8. Cattle Egret - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  9. Green Heron - 1:sl,dm  2:bd
  10. Little Blue Heron - 2:sv
  11. Tricolored Heron - 1:sl
  12. Little Egret - 1:dm  2:bd,sv  (Collectively in '04, we saw this species, now established in the Lesser Antilles, on 3 islands.)  
  13. Snowy Egret - 2:bd (Oddly Little Egret was seen, but Snowy Egret was not during the March tour.)    
  14. Great Egret - 1:sl,dm
  15. Great Blue Heron - 1:sl
  16. Broad-winged Hawk - 1:sl,sv,dm
  17. Common Black (or Crab) Hawk - 1:sv  2:sv
  18. Peregrine Falcon - 1:sv
  19. Merlin - 1:sl,dm
  20. American Kestrel - 1:sl,sv
  21. Common Gallinule (or Moorhen) - 1:sl  2:bd
  22. Black-bellied Plover - 1:sl
  23. Semipalmated Plover - 1:bd
  24. Wilson's (or Thick-billed) Plover - 2:bd 
  25. Greater Yellowlegs - 1:sl
  26. Lesser Yellowlegs - 2:bd
  27. Solitary Sandpiper - 1:sl
  28. Wood Sandpiper (r/WI) - 1: bd
  29. Reeve (female Ruff) (r/WI) - 1:bd 
  30. Spotted Sandpiper - 1:sl,dm
  31. Ruddy Turnstone - 1:sl  2:bd
  32. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2:bd
  33. Pomarine Jaeger - 1:dm
  34. Lesser Black-backed Gull (r/WI) - 1:dm 
  35. Laughing Gull - 1:sl,dm  2:sv
  36. Royal Tern - 1:sl,dm
  37. Feral Pigeon (i) - 1:sl,dm
  38. Scaly-naped (or Red-necked) Pigeon - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  39. Eared Dove - 1:sv  2:sv
  40. Zenaida Dove - 1:sl,dm  2:bd
  41. Eurasian Collared-Dove (i) - 1:dm
  42. Common Ground-Dove - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  43. Bridled Quail-Dove - 1:sv(h)
  44. Imperial Amazon/Parrot (t2) (DMe) - 1:dm
  45. St. Vincent Amazon/Parrot (t3) (SVe) - 1:sv  2:sv
  46. St. Lucia Amazon/Parrot (t3) (SLe) - 1:sl
  47. Red-necked Amazon/Parrot (t3) (DMe) - 1:dm
  48. Mangrove Cuckoo - 1:sl,sv,dm
  49. Smooth-billed Ani - 1:dm
  50. Barn Owl - 1:sv,dm
  51. Lesser Antillean Swift - 1:sl,dm
  52. Blue-headed Hummingbird - 1:dm
  53. Purple-throated Carib - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:sv
  54. Green-throated Carib - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:sv
  55. Antillean Crested Hummingbird - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  56. Ringed Kingfisher - 1:dm
  57. Gray Kingbird - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  58. Lesser Antillean Flycatcher - 1:sl,dm
  59. Grenada Flycatcher - 1:sv
  60. Saint Lucia Pewee (e) - 1:sl
  61. Lesser Antillean Pewee - 1:dm
  62. Yellow-bellied Elaenia - 1:sv  2:sv
  63. Caribbean Elaenia - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  64. Caribbean Martin - 1:sl,dm  2:bd,sv
  65. "Lesser Antillean" House Wren - 1:dm
  66. Tropical Mockingbird - 1:sl,sv,dm
  67. Scaly-breasted Thrasher - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:sv
  68. Pearly-eyed Thrasher - 1:sl
  69. White-breasted Thrasher (t2) - 1:sl
  70. Brown Trembler - 1:sv,dm  2:sv
  71. Gray Trembler - 1:sl
  72. Bare-eyed Thrush - 1:sl,sv  2:sv
  73. Cocoa Thrush - 1:sv  2:sv
  74. Forest Thrush (t3) - 1:dm
  75. Rufous-throated Solitaire - 1:sl,dm
  76. Black-whiskered Vireo - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd
  77. Bananaquit - 1:sl,sv,dm (including "Black Bananaquit" on St Vincent)
  78. Golden (has been considered part of Yellow) Warbler - 1:sl,dm  2:bd
  79. Saint Lucia Warbler (e) - 1:sl  (was formerly conspecific with Adelaide's Warbler of Puerto Rico and Barbuda Warbler of that small Caribbean island)   
  80. Plumbeous Warbler - 1:dm
  81. Whistling Warbler (t2) (SVe) - 1:sv  2:sv
  82. Shiny (or Glossy) Cowbird - 1:sl  2:bd
  83. Carib Grackle - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  84. Saint Lucia Oriole (nt) (SLe) - 1:sl
  85. Lesser Antillean Tanager - 1:sv  2:sv
  86. Lesser Antillean Bullfinch - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  87. Saint Lucia Black Finch (t2) (SLe) - 1:sl
  88. Black-faced Grassquit - 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd,sv
  89. Lesser Antillean Saltator - 1:sl (was formerly conspecific with Streaked Saltator of South & Central America)
  90. Indigo Bunting (r/LA) - 1:dm   





 Mammals & Some Other Wildlife 
during FONT tours 
in the Lesser Antilles in 2004

(i): introduced


Virginia Opossum (i) - 1:sl  (introduced from North America)
Small Indian Mongoose (i) - 1:sl,sv  2:bd  (introduced from Asia)

Red-rumped Agouti (i) - 1:sl  (introduced from northern South America) 

various bats: 1:sl,sv,dm  2:bd


butterflies