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Birds found during the FONT
Holiday Birding & Nature Tour
in
Guatemala
December 26 - January 4,
2005-06
List compiled by Armas
Hill
Photograph at right:
Ocellated Turkey at Tikal
Codes:
In the Guatemalan highlands (gh),
including the areas of Antigua, Lake Atitlan, Fuentes Georginas
with some birds in the western lowlands (wl)
On the Pacifc Slope (ps)
In the Peten lowlands (pl)
including areas of Tikal and Rio de la Pasion
(t): a globally threatened or rare species,
designated by Birdlife International.
(t1): critical (t2): endangered
(t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.
(r/GU): rare in Guatemala
(i): introduced species.
(h): heard only
Links:
Cumulative
Lists of Birds during our Guatemala Tours
In cumulative lists of birds, scientific names
are given & subspecies are noted.
List
of Central American Mammals & Some Other Wildlife
A list of mammals during our
Guatemala Holiday Tour '05-'06 follows the bird-list below.
List
of Selected Central American Butterflies
Upcoming
Birding & Nature Tours in Guatemala
Bird-List:
- Great Tinamou - ps
- Pied-billed Grebe - pl
- Brown Pelican - pl
- Neotropic Cormorant - pl
- Anhinga - pl
- Great Blue Heron - pl
- Little Blue Heron - pl
- Great Egret - pl
- Snowy Egret - pl
- Cattle Egret - gh,ps,pl
- Green Heron - pl
- Black Vulture - gh,pl
- Turkey Vulture - gh,pl
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture - pl
- Osprey - pl
- White-tailed Kite - pl
- Snail Kite - pl
- Red-tailed Hawk - gh
- White-tailed Hawk - ps
- Short-tailed Hawk - gh,pl
- Roadside Hawk - gh,pl
- Gray Hawk - pl
- Black Hawk-Eagle - ps
- Northern Crested-Caracara - wl
- Laughing Falcon - pl
- American Kestrel - gh
- Bat Falcon - pl
- Crested Guan - ps,pl
- Great Curassow - pl
- Plain Chachalaca - pl
- White-bellied Chachalaca - ps
- Ocellated Turkey (nt) - pl
- Gray-necked Wood-Rail
- pl
- Ruddy Crake/Red Rail - pl
- American Coot - pl
- Northern Jacana - pl
- Killdeer - pl
- Spotted Sandpiper - pl
- Solitary Sandpiper - pl
- Laughing Gull - pl
- Feral (or Rock) Pigeon (i) - gh
- Red-billed Pigeon - ps
- Band-tailed Pigeon - gh
- Short-billed Pigeon - pl
- Mourning Dove - gh
- White-winged Dove - gh
- Inca Dove - gh
- Common Ground-Dove - gh
- Plain-breasted Ground-Dove - pl
- Ruddy Ground-Dove - pl
- Blue Ground-Dove - pl
- White-tipped/-fronted Dove - gh
- Gray-headed Dove - pl
- Ruddy Quail-Dove - pl
- Aztec (formerly part of Olive-throated)
Conure/Parakeet - pl
- Orange-fronted Parakeet - ps
- Orange-chinned
(or Tovi) Parakeet - ps
- Brown-hooded Parrot - pl
- White-fronted Parrot - ps
- Red-lored (or Yellow-cheeked) Amazon/Parrot
- pl
- Mealy (or Blue-crowned) Amazon/Parrot - pl
- Squirrel Cuckoo - ps,pl
- Groove-billed Ani - gh,pl
- Pheasant Cuckoo - pl
(heard doing a display
on the ground)
- Mottled Owl - pl
- Lesser Nighthawk - pl
- Pauraque - pl
- Mexican Whip-poor-will - gh
- White-collared Swift - gh
- Vaux's (or Dusky-backed) Swift - gh,pl
- White-throated Swift - gh,pl
- Wedge-tailed Sabrewing - pl
- Green Violet-ear - gh
- Green-breasted (or Prevost's)
Mango -ps
- White-eared Hummingbird - gh
- Canivet's (formerly called
Fork-tailed) Emerald
- ps,pl
- White-bellied Emerald - pl
- Azure-crowned Hummingbird
(or Red-billed Azurecrown) - gh
- Cinnamon Hummingbird - ps
- Amethyst-throated (or Cazique)
Hummingbird - ps
- Garnet-throated Hummingbird - gh
- Rivoli's) (has been part of
Magnificent) Hummingbird - gh
- Sparkling-tailed/Dupont's Woodstar/Hummingbird
- gh
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird - gh
- Slaty-tailed
(or Massena) Trogon - pl
- Mountain Trogon - gh
- Black-headed Trogon - pl
- Northern Violaceous Trogon - pl
- Ringed Kingfisher - pl
- Belted Kingfisher - pl
- Green Kingfisher -pl
- Blue-crowned Motmot - ps,pl
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar - pl
- Emerald Toucanet - gh
- Collared Aracari - pl
- Keel-billed Toucan - pl
- Chestnut-colored Woodpecker - pl
- Lineated Woodpecker - ps,pl
- Acorn Woodpecker - gh
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker - gh,ps,pl
- Hairy Woodpecker - gh
- Pale-/Flint-billed Woodpecker - pl
- Tawny-winged Woodcreeper - pl
- Ruddy Woodcreeper - pl
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper - pl
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper - pl
- Northern Barred-Woodcreeper - pl
- Ivory-billed (or Laughing)
Woodcreeper - pl
- Spotted Woodcreeper - gh
- Spot-crowned Woodcreeper - gh
- Plain Xenops - pl
- Barred Antshrike - pl
- Dot-winged Antwren - pl
- White-collared Manakin - pl
- Red-capped Manakin - pl
- Thrushlike Schiffornis
(has been called
Thrushlike Mourner
or Manakin) - pl
- Masked Tityra - pl
- Black Phoebe - gh
- Vermilion Flycatcher - pl
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - wl,pl
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher - pl
- Tropical Kingbird - gh,pl (may include
some sightings of the very-similar Couch's Kingbird,
which could winter in
areas were were in the Peten)
- Boat-billed Flycatcher - ps,pl
- Social Flycatcher - gh,ps,pl
- Great Kiskadee - ps
- Great Crested Flycatcher - pl
- Bright-rumped Attila - pl
- Rufous Mourner - pl
- Greater Pewee (has been called Coue's
Flycatcher) - gh
- Tropical Pewee - ps,pl
- Northern/Common Tufted-Flycatcher - gh
- Acadian Flycatcher - pl
- Least Flycatcher - ps
- Hammond's Flycatcher - gh
- Buff-breasted Flycatcher - gh
- Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher - pl
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher - pl
- (Northern) Royal Flycatcher - pl
- Stub-tailed (formerly part of White-throated)
Spadebill - ps,pl
- Northern Bentbill - ps
- Mountain Elaenia - gh
- Greenish Elaenia - pl
- Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet - pl
- Paltry/Mistletoe Tyrannulet - ps
- Common Tody-Flycatcher - pl
- Yellow-olive Flycatcher/Flatbill - pl
- Sepia-capped Flycatcher - pl
- Rufous Piha - pl
- Gray-breasted Martin - gh
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow - gh,pl
- Ridgway's (has been part of Northern) Rough-winged
Swallow - pl
- Black-capped Swallow - gh
- Mangrove Swallow - pl
- Violet-green Swallow - gh
- Barn Swallow - wl
- (White-throated) Magpie-Jay - ps
- Brown Jay - pl
- Bushy-crested Jay - gh
- Steller's Jay - gh
- Band-backed
(or Barred) Wren - gh
- "Southern" House Wren - gh
- White-bellied Wren - pl
- Rufous-naped Wren - ps
- Spot-breasted Wren - pl
- Gray-breasted Wood-Wren - gh
- Tropical Mockingbird - gh
- Gray Catbird - pl
- Rufous-collared Thrush/Robin - gh
- Clay-colored Thrush/Robin - gh,ps,pl
- Black Thrush/Robin - gh
- Brown-backed Solitaire - gh
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush - gh
- Wood Thrush - pl
- Swainson's Thrush - gh
- Eastern Bluebird - gh
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - pl
- Long-billed Gnatwren - pl
- White-eyed Vireo - pl
- Mangrove Vireo - pl
- Plumbeous (formerly part of Solitary) Vireo
- gh
- Tawny-crowned Greenlet - pl
- Lesser/Gray-headed Greenlet - pl
- Black-and-white Warbler - gh,pl
- Blue-winged Warbler - pl
- Worm-eating Warbler - pl
- Tennessee Warbler - gh,ps
- Nashville Warbler - gh
- Crescent-chested Warbler - gh
- Yellow Warbler - gh.pl
- Magnolia Warbler - ps,pl
- "Goldman's" Yellow-rumped Warbler
- gh
- Townsend's Warbler - gh
- Black-throated Green Warbler - gh,ps,pl
- Hermit Warbler - gh
- Chestnut-sided Warbler - ps
- Ovenbird - gh,pl
- Northern Waterthrush - pl
- Wilson's Warbler - gh
- Hooded Warbler - pl
- American Redstart - pl
- Slate-throated Redstart - gh
- Pink-headed Warbler (nt) - gh
- Golden-crowned Warbler - pl
- Montezuma Oropendola - pl
- Bronzed/Red-eyed Cowbird - gh
- Great-tailed Grackle - gh,ps,pl
- Melodious Blackbird - gh,pl
- Black-cowled Oriole - pl
- Baltimore Oriole - gh,ps,pl
- Bullock's Oriole - gh
- Orchard Oriole - gh,pl
- Black-vented/Wagler's Oriole - gh
- Altamira Oriole - mv
- Yellow-tailed Oriole - pl
- Yellow-backed Oriole - pl
- Spot-breasted Oriole - ps
- Cinnamon(-bellied) Flower-piercer - gh
- Red-legged Honeycreeper - ps
- Olive-backed Euphonia - pl
- Yellow-throated Euphonia - pl
- Blue-hooded (or Elegant) Euphonia - gh
- Blue-gray Tanager - gh
- Yellow-winged Tanager - gh
- Summer Tanager - gh,pl
- Western Tanager - gh
- White-winged Tanager - gh
- Red-crowned Ant-Tanager - pl
- Red-throated Ant-Tanager - pl
- Black-throated Shrike-Tanager - pl
- Common Bush-Tanager - gh
- Black-headed Saltator - pl
- Grayish Saltator - pl
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak - gh,ps
- Blue Bunting - pl
- White-collared Seedeater - gh,pl
- Yellow-throated Brush-Finch - gh
- Prevost's Ground-Sparrow - gh
- Rusty Sparrow - gh
- Rufous-collared Sparrow - gh
- Black-headed Siskin - gh
- Lesser/Dark-backed Goldfinch - gh,ps
- House Sparrow (i) - gh
Taxonomy in large part conforms
with "A Guide to the Birds of Mexico & Northern Central
America", by Steve Howell & Sophie Webb.
Mammals during the FONT Guatemala
Dec 05 - Jan 06 Holiday Tour
Yucatan (or Mexican) Black Howler Monkey - pl
Alouatta palliata
Central American Spider Monkey - pl
Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis
Central American Agouti - pl
Dasyprocta punctata
White-nosed Coati - pl
Nasua narica
Jaguarundi - pl
Felis (formerly Herpailurus) yauarondi
Mexican Gray Squirrel (has been called Red-bellied
Squirrel) - gh
Sciurus aureogaster
Yucatan Squirrel - pl
Sciurus yucatanensis
Deppe's Squirrel - gh
Sciurus deppei
various bats (sp.) - pl