Birds found during the 
FONT Birding & Nature Tour 
in Guatemala 

in March  2006

List compiled by Armas Hill


Photograph at right: 
Long-tailed Manakin, 
seen nicely during our '06 spring Guatemala tour.


 Dates:
March 7-19, 2006 


 Codes:
1: In the Guatemalan highlands (gh)  
    including the areas of Antigua, Lake Atitlan, and Fuentes Georginas
    as well as on the Pacifc slope (ps) & along the Pacific coast (pc)  
    
2: In the Peten lowlands (pl)
    including areas of Tikal, the Rio de la Pasion, and the Lago de Peten Itza 
     
      

(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
(r/pt): rare in the Peten region 
(u/pt): uncommon in Peten region
(i): introduced species.

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 March '06 Guatemala Tour follows the bird-list below.

List of Selected Central American Butterflies


Upcoming Guatemala Tours

Bird-List:

  1. Slaty-breasted (or Boucard's) Tinamou - 2:pl
  2. Thicket (or Rufescent) Tinamou - 2:pl
  3. Least Grebe - 1:pc  2:pl
  4. Pied-billed Grebe  -  2:pl
  5. American White Pelican  -  1:pc 
  6. Brown Pelican - 1:pc
  7. Neotropic Cormorant - 1: pc  2:pl
  8. Anhinga - 1: pc  2:pl
  9. Great Blue Heron - 1:pc  2:pl
  10. Little Blue Heron - 1:pc  2:pl
  11. Tricolored Heron - 1:pc  2:pl
  12. Great Egret - 1:pc  2:pl
  13. Snowy Egret - 1:pc  2:pl
  14. Cattle Egret - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  15. Green Heron - 1:pc  2:pl
  16. Agami Heron  (r/GU) - 2:pl 
  17. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1:pc
  18. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron - 1:pc
  19. Boat-billed Heron - 1:pc  2:pl
  20. Pinnated Bittern  (r/GU) - 1:pc
  21. Wood Stork - 1:pc
  22. White Ibis - 1:pc
  23. Blue-winged Teal - 1:pc
  24. Black Vulture - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl
  25. Turkey Vulture - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl
  26. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture - 1:pc  2:pl 
  27. Osprey - 1:pc  2:pl
  28. Swallow-tailed Kite - 2:pl
  29. Gray-headed Kite - 1:ps,pc
  30. White-tailed Kite - 1:pc  2:pl
  31. Plumbeous Kite - 2:pl
  32. Snail Kite - 2:pl
  33. Red-tailed Hawk - 1:gh
  34. Short-tailed Hawk - 2:pl 
  35. Roadside Hawk -  1:ps,pc  2:pl
  36. Gray Hawk - 1:ps  2:pl
  37. Common Black Hawk - 2:pl
  38. Mangrove Black Hawk - 1:pc
  39. Northern Crested-Caracara - 1:ps
     
  40. Laughing Falcon - 1:ps  2:pl
  41. Collared Forest-Falcon -  2:pl
  42. Peregrine Falcon - 1:pc
  43. American Kestrel - 1:pc
  44. Bat Falcon - 2:pl
  45. Orange-breasted Falcon (nt) (r/GU) - 2:pl (at a Tikal temple) 
  46. Crested Guan - 2:pl
  47. Great Curassow - 2:pl
  48. Plain Chachalaca - 2:pl
  49. White-bellied Chachalaca - 1:pc
  50. Ocellated Turkey (nt) - 2:pl
  51. Limpkin - 2:pl
  52. Gray-necked Wood-Rail - 2:pl
  53. Ruddy Crake (or Red Rail) - 2:pl
  54. Common Gallinule (or Moorhen)  - 1:pc  2:pl
  55. Purple Gallinule - 1:pc  2:pl
  56. American Coot  - 1:gh  2:pl
  57. Sungrebe -  2:pl
  58. Northern Jacana - 1:pc  2:pl
  59. Killdeer -  2:pl
  60. Black-necked Stilt - 1:pc  2:pl
  61. Solitary Sandpiper - 2:pl
  62. Spotted Sandpiper - 1:pc  2:pl
  63. Semipalmated Sandpiper -  1:pc  2:pl
  64. Western Sandpiper - 1:pc
  65. Least Sandpiper - 1:pc  2:pl 
  66. Laughing Gull - 1:pc  2:pl
  67. Gull-billed Tern - 1:pc
  68. Caspian Tern - 1:pc 
  69. Royal Tern - 1:pc
  70. Sandwich Tern - 1:pc
  71. Feral Pigeon (i) - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl
  72. Band-tailed Pigeon - 1:gh
  73. Pale-vented Pigeon - 2:pl
  74. Red-billed Pigeon - 1:ps
  75. Short-billed Pigeon - 2:pl
  76. Mourning Dove - 1:pc
  77. White-winged Dove - 1:gh
  78. Inca Dove - 1:gh
  79. Common Ground-Dove - 1:gh
  80. Ruddy Ground-Dove - 1:pc  2:pl
  81. White-tipped/-fronted Dove - 1:gh,ps  
  82. Gray-headed Dove - 2:pl
  83. Ruddy Quail-Dove - 2:pl
  84. Pacific (or Green) Parakeet - 1:gh,ps
  85. Aztec (formerly part of Olive-throated) Conure/Parakeet - 2:pl
  86. Orange-throated Conure/Parakeet - 1:ps,pc
  87. Orange-chinned (or Tovi) Parakeet - 1:ps,pc
  88. Brown-hooded Parrot - 2:pl
  89. White-fronted Amazon/Parrot - 1:pc  2:pl
  90. Red-lored (or Yellow-cheeked) Amazon/Parrot - 2:pl
  91. Yellow-naped Amazon/Parrot  - 1:ps,pc
  92. Mealy (or Blue-crowned) Amazon/Parrot - 2:pl
  93. Groove-billed Ani - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  94. Striped Cuckoo - 2:pl
  95. Pheasant Cuckoo - 2:pl  (seen on ground doing display) 
  96. Guatemalan (or Vermiculated) Screech-Owl - 2:pl 
  97. "Guatemalan" Mountain Pygmy-Owl - 1:gh
  98. Mottled Owl - 2:pl
  99. Lesser Nighthawk - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  100. Common Nighthawk - 1:pc  2:pl
  101. Short-tailed Nighthawk - 2:pl 
  102. Pauraque - 1:pc  2:pl
  103. Yucatan Poorwill - 2:pl 
  104. "Mexican" Whip-poor-will - 1:gh 
  105. White-collared Swift - 1:gh,ps  2:pl
  106. Vaux's (or Dusky-backed) Swift - 1:gh,wl  2:pl
  107. Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift - 2:pl
  108. Western Long-tailed (or Long-billed) Hermit (formerly Long-tailed Hermit) - 2:pl
  109. Wedge-tailed Sabrewing - 2:pl
  110. Rufous Sabrewing - 1:gh,ps
  111. Violet Sabrewing - 1:ps 
  112. Green-breasted (or Prevost's) Mango - 2:pl
  113. Emerald-chinned Hummingbird - 1:gh
  114. White-eared Hummingbird - 1:gh
  115. Salvin's (formerly called Fork-tailed) Emerald - 2:pl
  116. White-bellied Emerald - 2:pl
  117. Azure-crowned Hummingbird (or Red-billed Azurecrown) - 1:gh,ps
  118. Berylline Hummingbird - 1:gh,ps
  119. Blue-tailed Hummingbird - 1:ps
  120. Fawn-breasted/Buff-bellied Hummingbird - 2:pl
  121. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird - 2:pl
  122. Cinnamon Hummingbird - 1:ps
  123. Rivoli's (has been part of Magnificent) Hummingbird - 1:gh
  124. Purple-crowned Fairy - 2:pl
  125. Long-billed Starthroat - 1:ps
  126. Sparkling-tailed Woodstar - 1:ps
  127. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1:ps
  128. Slaty-tailed (or Massena) Trogon - 2:pl
  129. Mountain Trogon 1:gh
  130. Black-headed Trogon - 2:pl
  131. Northern Violaceous Trogon - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  132. Ringed Kingfisher - 2:pl
  133. Belted Kingfisher - 1:pc  2:pl
  134. Amazon Kingfisher - 2:pl
  135. Green Kingfisher - 2:pl
  136. American Pygmy Kingfisher - 2:pl
  137. Blue-crowned Motmot - 1:ps  2:pl
  138. Tody Motmot - 1:ps
  139. Rufous-tailed Jacamar - 2:pl
  140. White-whiskered Puffbird - 2:pl
  141. Collared Aracari - 2:pl
  142. Keel-billed Toucan - 2:pl
  143. "Guatemalan" Northern Flicker - 1:gh
  144. Golden-olive Woodpecker - 1:gh,ps 
     
  145. Chestnut-colored Woodpecker - 2:pl
  146. Lineated Woodpecker 1:ps
  147. Acorn Woodpecker - 1:gh
  148. Golden-fronted Woodpecker - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl
  149. Black-cheeked Woodpecker - 2:pl
  150. Hairy Woodpecker - 1:gh
  151. Pale-billed Woodpecker - 2:pl
  152. Tawny-winged Woodcreeper - 2:pl
  153. Ruddy Woodcreeper - 2:pl
  154. Olivaceous Woodcreeper -  2:pl
  155. Wedge-billed Woodcreeper - 2:pl
  156. Ivory-billed (or Laughing) Woodcreeper - 2:pl
  157. Spotted Woodcreeper - 1:gh
  158. Spot-crowned Woodcreeper - 1:gh
  159. Rufous-breasted Spinetail - 2:pl
  160. Plain Xenops - 2:pl
  161. Barred Antshrike - 1:ps  2:pl
  162. Plain Antvireo - 2:pl
  163. Mexican (part of Black-faced) Antthrush - 2:pl
  164. Long-tailed Manakin - 1:ps
  165. White-collared Manakin - 2:pl
  166. Thrushlike Schiffornis (has been called Thrushlike Mourner or Manakin) - 2:pl
  167. Gray-collared Becard - 1:ps
  168. Rose-throated Becard - 1:ps
  169. Masked Tityra - 1:ps  2:pl
  170. Black Phoebe - 1:gh
  171. Vermilion Flycatcher - 2:pl
  172. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1:pc
  173. Fork-tailed Flycatcher -  2:pl
  174. Tropical Kingbird - 1:ps,pc  2:pl (may include some sightings of the very-similar Couch's Kingbird, which winters in areas where we were in the Peten region)
  175. Western Kingbird - 1:pc
  176. Cassin's Kingbird (r/GU) - 2:pl
  177. Boat-billed Flycatcher - 1:ps  2:pl
  178. Social Flycatcher - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  179. Great Kiskadee - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  180. Dusky-capped Flycatcher - 1:ps  2:pl
  181. Great Crested Flycatcher - 2:pl
  182. Bright-rumped Attila - 2:pl
  183. Greater Pewee (at one time called Coue's Flycatcher) - 1:gh
  184. Tropical Pewee - 1:ps
  185. Northern/Common Tufted-Flycatcher - 1:gh
  186. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1:ps,pc
     
  187. Least Flycatcher - 1:ps  2:pl
  188. Yellowish Flycatcher - 1:gh
  189. Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher - 2:pl
  190. Northern Royal Flycatcher - 2:pl
  191. Stub-tailed (formerly part of White-throated) Spadebill - 2:pl
  192. Yellow-olive Flatbill/Flycatcher - 2:ps
  193. Eye-ringed Flatbill - 2:pl
  194. Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher - 2:pl
  195. Yellow-bellied Elaenia - 1:ps  2:pl
  196. Mountain Elaenia - 1:gh
  197. Northern Beardless Tyrannulet - 2:pl
  198. Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet - 2:pl
  199. Sepia-capped Flycatcher - 2:pl
  200. Gray-breasted Martin - 2:pl
  201. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  202. Ridgway's (has been part of Northern) Rough-winged Swallow - 2:pl
  203. Black-capped Swallow - 1:gh
  204. Tree Swallow - 2:pl
  205. Mangrove Swallow - 1:pc  2:pl
  206. Barn Swallow - 1:pc
  207. (White-throated) Magpie-Jay - 1:ps,pc
  208. Brown Jay - 2:pl
  209. Bushy-crested Jay - 1:gh
  210. Steller's Jay - 1:gh
  211. (Black-eared form of the Common) Bushtit - 1:gh
  212. Band-backed (or Barred) Wren - 1:gh,ps
  213. Rufous-naped Wren - 1:ps,pc
  214. Rufous-and-white Wren - 1:ps
  215. Spot-breasted Wren - 2:pl
  216. "Southern" House Wren - 1:gh,ps  2:pl
  217. Rufous-browed Wren - 1:gh
  218. White-bellied Wren - 2:pl
  219. Gray-breasted Wood-Wren - 2:gh
  220. Blue-and-white Mockingbird - 1:gh
  221. Tropical Mockingbird - 1:gh  
  222. Rufous-collared Thrush/Robin - 1:gh
  223. White-throated Thrush/Robin - 1:ps
  224. Clay-colored Thrush/Robin - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl
     
  225. Mountain Thrush/Robin - 1:gh
  226. Black Thrush/Robin - 1:gh
  227. Brown-backed Solitaire - 1:gh
  228. Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush - 1:ps
  229. Wood Thrush - 2:pl
  230. Eastern Bluebird - 1:gh
  231. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2:pl
  232. Gray Silky (-Flycatcher) - 1:gh
  233. Rufous-browed Peppershrike - 1:ps
  234. White-eyed Vireo - 2:pl
  235. Mangrove Vireo - 1:pc  2:pl
  236. Blue-headed (formerly part of Solitary) Vireo - 1:gh  2:pl
     
  237. Yellow-throated Vireo - 2:pl
  238. Yellow-green Vireo - 1:ps  2:pl
  239. Philadelphia Vireo - 2:pl
  240. Tawny-crowned Greenlet - 2:pl
  241. Lesser (or Gray-headed) Greenlet - 1:wl  2:pl
  242. Black-and-white Warbler - 1:gh,ps  2:pl
  243. Prothonotary Warbler - 1:pc
  244. Blue-winged Warbler - 2:pl
  245. Golden-winged Warbler - 2:pl
  246. Worm-eating Warbler - 2:pl
  247. Tennessee Warbler - 1:gh,ps  2:pl
  248. Nashville Warbler - 1:gh  2:pl
  249. Crescent-chested Warbler - 1:gh
  250. Northern Parula - 2:pl
  251. Yellow Warbler - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  252. Mangrove Warbler - 2:pl
  253. Magnolia Warbler - 1:ps  2:pl
  254. "Goldman's" Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1:gh
  255. Townsend's Warbler - 1:gh
  256. Black-throated Green Warbler - 1:gh,ps  
  257. Hermit Warbler - 1:gh
  258. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2:pl
  259. Ovenbird - 2:pl
  260. Northern Waterthrush - 1:pc  2:pl
  261. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1:ps
  262. Wilson's Warbler - 1:gh
  263. Hooded Warbler - 2:pl
  264. Kentucky Warbler - 2:pl
  265. Common Yellowthroat - 1:pc  2:pl
  266. Gray-crowned Yellowthroat - 2:pl
  267. Gray-throated Chat - 2:pl
  268. American Redstart - 1:pc  2:pl
  269. Slate-throated Whitestart/Redstart - 1:gh,ps
  270. Red-faced Warbler - 1:gh
  271. Pink-headed Warbler (nt) - 1:gh
  272. Golden-crowned Warbler - 2:pl
  273. Golden-browed Warbler - 1:gh
  274. Rufous-capped Warbler - 1:gh,ps
  275. Olive Warbler - 1:gh
  276. Montezuma Oropendola - 2:pl
  277. Yellow-winged Cacique - 1:ps
  278. Giant Cowbird - 2:pl
  279. Bronzed/Red-eyed Cowbird - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl
  280. Great-tailed Grackle - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl
  281. Melodious Blackbird - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl
  282. Red-winged Blackbird -  1:pc  2:pl
  283. Black-cowled Oriole - 2:pl
  284. Baltimore Oriole - 1:gh  2:pl
  285. Orchard Oriole - 1:pc  2:pl
  286. Black-vented/Wagler's Oriole - 1:ps
  287. Spot-breasted Oriole - 1: ps,pc
  288. Altamira Oriole - 1:ps,pc 
  289. Yellow-tailed Oriole - 2:pl
  290. Eastern Meadowlark - 1:pc
  291. Green Honeycreeper - 2:pl
  292. Red-legged Honeycreeper - 1:ps  2:pl
  293. Scrub Euphonia - 1:ps  2:pl
  294. Yellow-throated Euphonia - 2:pl
  295. Olive-backed Euphonia - 2:pl
     
  296. Blue-hooded (or Elegant) Euphonia - 1:gh
  297. Golden-hooded Tanager - 2:pl
  298. Blue-gray Tanager - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  299. Yellow-winged Tanager - 1:gh,ps  2:pl
  300. Summer Tanager - 1:gh  2:pl
  301. Western Tanager - 1:gh,ps
  302. White-winged Tanager - 1:ps
  303. Red-crowned Ant-Tanager - 1:ps
  304. Red-throated Ant-Tanager - 2:pl
  305. Black-throated Shrike-Tanager - 2:pl
  306. Gray-headed Tanager - 2:pl
  307. Common Bush-Tanager - 1:gh
  308. Black-headed Saltator - 1:ps
  309. Buff-throated Saltator - 2:pl
  310. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1:ps
  311. Blue Grosbeak - 1:ps
  312. Blue Bunting - 2:pl
  313. Indigo Bunting - 2:pl
  314. Painted Bunting - 2:pl
  315. White-collared Seedeater - 1:ps,pc  2:pl
  316. Blue-black Grassquit - 1:pc
  317. Green-backed Sparrow - 2:pl
  318. Stripe-headed Sparrow - 1:pc
  319. Rusty Sparrow - 1:ps
  320. Rufous-collared Sparrow - 1:gh
  321. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1:gh
  322. "Guatemalan" Yellow-eyed Junco - 1:gh
  323. Hooded Grosbeak - 1:gh
  324. Black-headed Siskin - 1:gh
  325. Lesser (or Dark-backed) Goldfinch - 1:gh
  326. House Sparrow (i) - 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl

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 March '06 Tour


Yucatan Black Howler Monkey - 2:pl

Central American Spider Monkey - 2:pl

Central American Agouti - 1: ps  2:pl

 Jaguarundi  - 1:ps

Gray Fox  -  2:pl

Striped Hognose Skunk - 2:pl 

White-tailed Deer - 1:gh

Mexican Gray Squirrel - 1:gh

Yucatan Squirrel - 2:pl

Deppe's Squirrel - 1:gh

Guatemalan Vole - 1:gh

sac-winged bat - 2:pl

other bats - 1:pc  2:pl 


 Other Wildlife

crocodile - 2:pl

lizards - 2:pl

fresh-water turtle - 2:pl

Leaf-cutter and other ants - 2:pl

various butterflies 1:gh,ps,pc  2:pl