Photo at right: the Hispaniolan Trogon 


Dates:  

April 1-8, 2006


Codes:

HA:   also in adjacent Haiti, April 5
HAo: in adjacent Haiti only

ho:    heard only
   

(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International.
    (t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.

(isH):      introduced species in Hispaniola

(esH):     endemic species in Hispaniola
(essH):    endemic subspecies in Hispaniola


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1. Pied-billed Grebe -  HA
   
   
2. Brown Pelican  
   
   
3. Magnificent Frigatebird   
   
   
4. Great Blue Heron  -  HA 
   
   
5. Cattle Egret  
   
   
6. Green Heron  -  HA
   
   
7. Reddish Egret - (white morph)
   
   
8. Tricolored Heron    
   
   
9. Little Blue Heron  -  HA 
   
   
10. Snowy Egret   
    
    
11. Great Egret  -  HA  
    
    
12. Least Bittern    
    
    
13. Glossy Ibis  
    
    
14. White Ibis
    
    
15. Roseate Spoonbill
    
    
16. "Caribbean" American Flamingo 
    
    
17. White-cheeked Pintail  
    
    
18. Blue-winged Teal  
    
    
19. Osprey  
    
    
20. Red-tailed Hawk   
    
    
21. Merlin
    
    
22. American Kestrel  -  (essH)
    
    
23. Helmeted Guinea-Fowl  -  (isH) 
    
    
24. (Feral) Red Jungle Fowl  -  (isH)
    
    
25. Limpkin  -  ho  (now essH, also formerly in Puerto Rico) 
    
    
26. Common Gallinule -  HA 
    
    
27. "Caribbean" American Coot  -  HA  (nt)
    
    
28. Black-bellied Plover  
    
    
29. Semipalmated Plover  
    
    
30. Snowy Plover
    
    
31. Wilson's Plover  -  HA 
    
    
32. Killdeer  -  HA 
    
    
33. Black-necked Stilt  -  HA
    
    
34. Hudsonian Godwit  -  (along southwest DR coast April 3; not normally recorded in the West Indies in the spring)  
    
    
35. Willet  
    
    
36. Greater Yellowlegs  
    
    
37. Lesser Yellowlegs  
    
    
38. Spotted Sandpiper  -  HA
    
    
39. Solitary Sandpiper  
    
    
40. Ruddy Turnstone  
    
    
41. Sanderling
    
    
42. Western Sandpiper
    
    
43. Semipalmated Sandpiper   
    
    
44. Least Sandpiper  
    
    
45. Short-billed Dowitcher
    
    
46. Stilt Sandpiper
    
     
47. Laughing Gull  
    
    
48. Common Tern
    
    
49. Roseate Tern  (subspecies t3)
    
    
50. Least Tern
    
    
51. Royal Tern  
    
    
52. Sandwich Tern
    
    
53. Caspian Tern  -  HAo
    
    
54. Feral Pigeon (i)  
    
    
55. Scaly-naped (or Red-necked) Pigeon  
    
    
56. Plain Pigeon  -  (t3)
    
    
57. Mourning Dove  -  HA
    
    
58. Zenaida Dove     
    
    
59. White-winged Dove  
    
    
60. Common Ground-Dove  
    
    
61. Ruddy Quail-Dove  -  ho
    
    
62. Key West Quail-Dove 
    
    
63. Hispaniolan (formerly part of Gray-headed) Quail-Dove  -  (t3)
    
    
64. Hispaniolan Parakeet (or Conure)  -  (t3)  (esH)
    
    
65. Jamaican (formerly part of Olive-throated) Parakeet (or Conure)  
    
    
66. Hispaniolan Parrot (or Amazon)  -  (t3)  (esH) 
    
    
67. Mangrove Cuckoo  
    
    
68. Hispaniolan Lizard-Cuckoo  -   (esH) (1 of 2 subspecies)
    
    
69. Bay (or Rufous) -breasted Cuckoo   -  (t2) (esH)
    
    
70. Smooth-billed Ani  
    
    
71. Ashy-faced Owl  -  (esH)
    
    
72. Burrowing Owl  -  (essH) 
    
    
73. Hispaniolan (formerly part of Greater Antillean) Nightjar  -  (esH)
    
    
74. Least Poorwill  (was called Least Pauraque)  -  (nt)  (esH)
    
    
75. Antillean Nighthawk  
    
    
76. Antillean Palm-Swift  
    
    
77. Hispaniolan Emerald  -  (esH)
    
    
78. Antillean Mango  -  (essH: Dominican Mango)
    
      
79. Vervain Hummingbird  -  (essH & on nearby small islands)
    
    
80. Hispaniolan Trogon  -  (nt) 
    
    
81. Belted Kingfisher  -  HA 
    
    
82. Narrow-billed Tody  -  (esH)  
    
    
83. Broad-billed Tody  -  (esH)
    
    
84. Antillean Piculet  -  (esH) (1 of 2 subspecies)
    
    
85. Hispaniolan Woodpecker  -  (esH) 
    
    
86. Gray Kingbird  
    
    
87. Loggerhead Kingbird  -  (essH & on nearby small islands) (1 of 2 subspecies on Hispaniola, the other in Haiti)
    
    
88. Stolid Flycatcher  -  (essH)
    
    
89. Hispaniolan Pewee  -  (esH)  
    
    
90. Greater Antillean Elaenia  -  (essH)  
    
    
91. Flat-billed Vireo  -  (esH)
    
    
92. Black-whiskered Vireo  
    
    
93. Golden Swallow  -  (t3)  (now probably esH) (another subspecies on Jamaica may no longer be)
    
    
94. Caribbean Martin
    
    
95. Barn Swallow  
    
    
96. White-necked Crow  -  (t3)  (now esH)  
    
    
97. Hispaniolan Palm Crow  -  (nt)  (esH, but has been considered conspecific with the Cuban Palm Crow)
    
    
98. LaSelle Thrush  -  (t2) (esH) 
    
    
99. Red-legged Thrush   
    
    
100. Rufous-throated Solitaire  -  ho  (essH)
     
     
101. Northern Mockingbird  
     
     
102. Palm Chat  -  (esH, also endemic family)
     
     
103. Black-and-White Warbler  
     
     
104. Northern Parula  
     
     
105. Yellow Warbler  
     
     
106. Black-throated Blue Warbler  
     
     
107. Cape May Warbler  
     
     
108. Chestnut-sided Warbler   
     
     
109. Prairie Warbler  
     
     
110. Pine Warbler  
     
     
111. Palm Warbler  
     
     
112. Ovenbird  
     
     
113. Northern Waterthrush  
     
     
114. Common Yellowthroat  
     
     
115. (Green-tailed) Ground Warbler  -  (esH)
     
     
116. White-winged Warbler  -  (t3)  (esH) 
     
     
117. American Redstart  
     
     
118. Hispaniolan Oriole  -  (esH, but previously part of Black-cowled & Greater Antillean Orioles)  
     
     
119. Greater Antillean Grackle   (essH, the nominate)
     
     
120. Shiny (or Glossy) Cowbird   
     
     
121. Bananaquit  -  (essH, 1 of 41 subspecies)
     
     
122. Antillean Euphonia  -  (essH, the nominate)
     
     
123. Hispaniolan Spindalis  -  (esH,  but formerly part of Stripe-headed Tanager, now split into 4 species) 
     
     
124. Black-crowned Palm-Tanager  -  (esH)
     
     
125. Gray-crowned Palm-Tanager  -  (nt)  (esH, but nearly all of its range in Haiti)
     
     
126. (Western) Chat-Tanager  -  (t3)  (esH)
     
     
127. Greater Antillean Bullfinch  -  (essH & on nearby small islands)
     
     
128. Yellow-faced Grassquit  
     
     
129. Black-faced Grassquit  
     
     
130. Rufous-collared Sparrow  -  (essH, the only subspecies in the West Indies, although there's another on Curacao & Aruba)
     
     
131. Hispaniolan Crossbill  -  (t2) (esH, but has been considered part of the White-winged Crossbill)  
     
     
132. House Sparrow  -  (isH)
     
     
133. Village Weaver  -  (isH)
        

Hispaniolan Solenodon 


Small Indian Mongoose  -  (isH)


Leach's Single-leaf Bat


small bat  


Iguana  


anoles  


snake  


lizard  


an assortment of butterflies