Birds during the Focus On Nature Tours
in the
Cayman
Islands
& Jamaica
in February/March 2006
List compiled by Armas Hill, leader of the tours
Photo at right, the Rose-throated or Cayman Parrot
Codes:
CY: in the Cayman Islands, Feb 23-26
gc: Grand Cayman Island
lc: Little Cayman Island
JM: in Jamaica, Feb 27 - Mar 4
(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
(neCY): Cayman Island near-endemic
(eJM): Jamaican endemic
Links:
Cumulative
List of Birds during our Cayman Island Tours
Cumulative
List of Birds during our Jamaica Tours
List of Selected West Indian Butterflies
Upcoming
Caribbean Birding Tours
Bird-List:
- Least Grebe - JM
- Pied-billed Grebe - CY(gc), JM
- White-tailed Tropicbird - CY(lc), JM
- Brown Pelican - CY(gc), JM
- Red-footed Booby - CY(gc,lc)
- Magnificent Frigatebird -
CY(gc,lc), JM
- Great Blue Heron - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- Cattle Egret - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Green Heron - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Tricolored Heron - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- Little Blue Heron - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- Snowy Egret - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Great Egret - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Black-crowned Night-Heron -
CY(gc), JM
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron -
CY(lc), JM
- Least Bittern - JM
- Glossy Ibis - JM
- West Indian Whistling-Duck (t3)
- CY(gc)
- Blue-winged Teal - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- American Wigeon - JM
- Northern Shoveler - JM
- Masked Duck - JM
- Turkey Vulture - JM
- Osprey - CY(gc), JM
- Red-tailed Hawk - JM
- American Kestrel - JM
- (Antillean) Clapper Rail - JM
- Yellow-breasted Crake - JM
- Common Gallinule (or Moorhen) -
CY(gc,lc), JM
- American Coot - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Northern Jacana - JM
- Black-bellied Plover - CY(gc),
JM
- Semipalmated Plover - JM
- Wilson's Plover - JM
- Killdeer - CY(lc), JM
- Black-necked Stilt - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- Willet - CY(gc), JM
- Greater Yellowlegs - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- Lesser Yellowlegs - CY(lc), JM
- Spotted Sandpiper - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- Solitary Sandpiper - CY(gc)
- Ruddy Turnstone - CY(gc), JM
- Least Sandpiper - JM
- Wilson's (formerly Common) Snipe
- JM
- Laughing Gull - JM
- Royal Tern - CY(gc), JM
- Feral Pigeon (i) - CY(gc), JM
- White-crowned Pigeon - CY(gc),
JM
- Ring-tailed Pigeon (t1) (eJM) -
JM
- Mourning Dove - JM
- Zenaida Dove - CY(gc,lc), JM
- White-winged Dove - CY(gc), JM
- Caribbean Dove - CY(gc)
- Common Ground-Dove - CY(gc,lc)
JM
- Ruddy Quail-Dove
- JM
- Monk Parakeet (i) - CY(gc)
- Jamaican (Olive-throated) Parakeet -
JM
- Green-rumped Parrotlet (i)
- JM
- Yellow-billed Parrot (nt) (eJM) -
JM
- Black-billed Parrot (t3) (eJM) -
JM
- Rose-throated (or Cayman) Parrot
- CY(gc)
- Mangrove Cuckoo - CY(gc), JM
- Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo (eJM)
- JM
- Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo (eJM)
- JM
- Smooth-billed Ani - CY(gc), JM
- Barn Owl - JM
- Jamaican (or Northern) Potoo -
JM
- White-collared Swift - JM
- Black Swift - JM
- Jamaican Mango (eJM) - JM
- Red-billed Streamertail (eJM) -
JM
- Black-billed Streamertail (eJM) -
JM
- Vervain Hummingbird - JM
- Belted Kingfisher - CY(gc), JM
- Jamaican Tody (eJM) - JM
- Jamaican Woodpecker (eJM) -
JM
- West Indian Woodpecker - CY(gc)
- "Yellow-shafted" Northern
Flicker - CY(gc)
- Jamaican Becard (eJM) -
JM
- Loggerhead Kingbird - CY(gc),
JM
- LaSagra's Flycatcher - CY(gc)
- Rufous-tailed Flycatcher (eJM) -
JM
- Sad Flycatcher (eJM) - JM
- Jamaican Pewee (eJM) - JM
- Jamaican Elaenia (eJM) -
JM
- Caribbean Elaenia - CY(gc,lc)
- Thick-billed Vireo - CY(gc)
- Jamaican Vireo (eJM) - JM
- White-eyed Vireo - JM
- Blue Mountain Vireo (eJM) - JM
- Black-whiskered Vireo - JM
- Yucatan Vireo - CY(gc)
- Barn Swallow - CY(lc), JM
- Cave Swallow - JM
- Jamaican (or Jabbering) Crow (eJM)
- JM
- White-chinned Thrush (eJM) -
JM
- White-eyed Thrush (eJM) -
JM
- Rufous-throated Solitaire - JM
- Northern Mockingbird - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- Gray Catbird - CY(gc)
- Black-and-White Warbler -
CY(gc,lc), JM
- Swainson's Warbler - JM
- Worm-eating Warbler - JM
- Northern Parula - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Yellow Warbler - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Golden Warbler - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Black-throated Blue Warbler -
CY(gc), JM
- Cape May Warbler - JM
- "Myrtle" Yellow-rumped
Warbler - JM
- Magnolia Warbler - JM
- Chestnut-sided Warbler - JM
- Yellow-throated Warbler -
CY(gc,lc)
- Prairie Warbler - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Vitelline Warbler - CY(gc,lc)
- Palm Warbler - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Arrow-headed Warbler (eJM)
- JM
- Ovenbird - JM
- Northern Waterthrush - CY(gc,lc),
JM
- Common Yellowthroat - JM
- American Redstart - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Jamaican Oriole (eJM) -
JM
- Jamaican Blackbird (nt) (eJM) -
JM
- Greater Antillean Grackle -
CY(gc,lc), JM
- Shiny (or Glossy) Cowbird - JM
- Bananaquit - CY(gc,lc), JM
- Orangequit (eJM)
- JM
- Jamaican Euphonia (eJM) -
JM
- Jamaican Spindalis (eJM)
- JM
- Western Spindalis - CY(gc)
- Greater Antillean Bullfinch -
JM
- Cuban Bullfinch - CY(gc)
- Yellow-faced Grassquit - JM
- Black-faced Grassquit - JM
- House Sparrow (i) - JM
- Chestnut Mannakin (i) - JM
Other Wildlife during the FONT tours
in the Cayman Islands & Jamaica in February/March 2006
Central American Agouti (i) -
CY(gc)
Small Indian Mongoose (i) - JM
Brown Rat (i) - CY(gc)
House Mouse (i) - JM
bats - JM
Iguana - CY(gc,lc)
(including the subspecies in CY on gc known as the "Blue Iguana")
anoles - CY(gc), JM
snake - CY(gc)
lizard - JM
Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana) - JM
fire ants - JM
an assortment of butterflies - CY(gc,lc), JM
(including in JM, the Homer's Swallowtail, the largest butterfly in the
Americas)
sphinx moth - CY(gc)