Tour dates: March 8-11, 2004

This was our 26th birding tour in Puerto Rico. The numbers in ( ) following the bird-names indicate during how many of these tours the species has been found. 


Codes:    

(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 Puerto Rico
(qe): quasi-endemic to Puerto Rico (also in the Virgin Islands) 
(r/PR): rare in Puerto Rico 

Links:

Cumulative List of Birds during our Tours in Puerto Rico

In cumulative lists of birds, scientific names are given & subspecies are noted.

Upcoming Caribbean Tours

1. Pied-billed Grebe - (26)
   
2. White-tailed Tropicbird - (12)
   
3. Brown Pelican - (26)
   
4. Brown Booby - (19)
   
5. Magnificent Frigatebird - (26)
   
6. Great Blue Heron - (24, not all of our PR tours have been in the winter)
   
7. Great Egret - (26)
   
8. Snowy Egret - (26)
   
9. Cattle Egret - (26)
   
10. Little Blue Heron - (26)
    
11. Tricolored Heron - (26)
    
12. Green Heron - (26)
    
13. Black-crowned Night-Heron - (17)
    
14. Least Bittern - (16)
    
15. White-cheeked Pintail - (26) (this subspecies considered vulnerable, or t3)
    
16. Blue-winged Teal - (7)
    
17. Lesser Scaup - (2)
    
18. Ruddy Duck - (20) (resident on Puerto Rico)
    
19. Turkey Vulture - (26)
    
20. Osprey - (25)
    
21. Broad-winged Hawk (r/PR) - (17) (this resident subspecies considered vulnerable, or t3) 
    
22. Red-tailed Hawk - (26)
    
23. Merlin - (10)
    
24. American Kestrel - (26) (a resident subspecies on Puerto Rico)
    
25. (Antillean) Clapper Rail - (19)
    
26. Sora - (3)
    
27. Common Gallinule (or Moorhen) - (26)
    
28. American Coot - (7)
    
29. Caribbean Coot (nt) (considered by some conspecific with American Coot) - (26)
    
30. American Oystercatcher - (9)
    
31. Black-bellied Plover - (18)
    
32. Semipalmated Plover - (17)
    
33. Wilson's (or Thick-billed) Plover - (16)
    
34. Killdeer - (18)
    
35. Black-necked Stilt - (25)
    
36. Greater Yellowlegs - (23)
    
37. Lesser Yellowlegs - (19)
    
38. Solitary Sandpiper - (6)
    
39. Spotted Sandpiper - (24)
    
40. Ruddy Turnstone - (21)
    
41. Sanderling - (9)
    
42. Semipalmated Sandpiper - (17)
    
43. Least Sandpiper - (12)
    
44. Stilt Sandpiper - (3)
    
45. Short-billed Dowitcher - (3) 
    
46. Royal Tern - (26)
    
47. Sandwich Tern - (18)
    
48. Feral Pigeon (i) - (26)
    
49. Scaly-naped (or Red-necked) Pigeon - (26)
    
50. Zenaida Dove - (26)
    
51. White-winged Dove - (26)
    
52. Ringed Turtle-Dove (i) - (18)
    
53. Common Ground-Dove - (26)
    
54. Puerto Rican Amazon/Parrot (t1) (PRe) - (11) (1 seen in '04, this very rare has now become quite difficult to find in the wild)
    
55. Monk Parakeet (i) - (21)
    
56. Mangrove Cuckoo - (24)
    
57. Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo (PRe) - (26)
    
58. Smooth-billed Ani - (26)
    
59. Puerto Rican Screech-Owl (PRqe) - (26) (also occurs in the Virgin Islands, but it is very rare there)
    
60. Chuck-Will's-Widow - (3)
    
61. Puerto Rican Nightjar (t1) (PRe) - (24)
    
62. Puerto Rican Emerald (PRe) - (26)
    
63. Green-throated Carib - (22)
    
64. Antillean Crested Hummingbird - (21)
    
65. Belted Kingfisher - (17)
    
66. Puerto Rican Tody (PRe) - (26)
    
67. Puerto Rican Woodpecker (PRe) - (26)
    
68. Gray Kingbird - (26)
    
69. Loggerhead Kingbird - (21)
    
70. Puerto Rican Flycatcher (PRqe) - (26) (also occurs in Virgin Islands)
    
71. Puerto Rican Pewee (PRe) - (24) (has previously been considered conspecific with Lesser Antillean Pewee)
    
72. Caribbean Elaenia - (18)
    
73. Tree Swallow - (1) (During this tour, a new species for our PR tours.) 
    
74. Caribbean Martin - (26)
    
75. Cave Swallow - (24) (an endemic subspecies in Puerto Rico)
    
76. Northern Mockingbird - (26) (subspecies endemic to the Caribbean) 
    
77. Pearly-eyed Thrasher - (26)
    
78. Red-legged Thrush - (26) (subspecies on Puerto Rico also on Hispaniola) 
    
79. Puerto Rican Vireo (PRe) - (25)
    
80. Black-whiskered Vireo - (25)
    
81. Bananaquit - (26) (There are 41 subspecies of Bananaquit. The one on Puerto Rico is endemic.) 
    
82. Northern Parula - (21) 
    
83. Golden (has been considered part of Yellow) Warbler - (26) (A resident on Puerto Rico. Migratory races of the Yellow Warbler from North America have most likely also been seen during our PR tours in the winter.)
    
84. Black-throated Blue Warbler - (11)
    
85. Adelaide's Warbler (PRe) - (26) (Has not always been a PR endemic for us, as it was formerly conspecific with what's now the St. Lucia & Barbuda Warblers, on those islands respectively.)     
    
86. Prairie Warbler - (14)
    
87. Palm Warbler - (5)
    
88. Elfin Woods Warbler (now t3, formerly nt) (PRe) - (23) (Discovered as recently as 1971.)
    
89. Northern Waterthrush - (11)
    
90. Louisiana Waterthrush - (6)
    
91. Common Yellowthroat - (11)
    
92. House Sparrow (i) - (24)
    
93. Yellow-crowned Bishop (or Napolean Weaver) (i) - (6)
    
94. Orange-cheeked Waxbill (i) - (13)
    
95. Warbling Silverbill (or White-throated Munia) (i) - (17)
    
96. Bronze Mannikin (or Hooded Weaver) (i) - (22)
    
97. Nutmeg Mannikin (or Scaly-breasted Munia) (also called Spice Finch) (i) - (16)
    
98. Shiny (or Glossy) Cowbird - (23)
    
99. Greater Antillean Grackle - (26)
    
100. (Venezuelan) Troupial (i) - (24)
     
101. Yellow-shouldered Blackbird (t1) (PRe) - (26)
     
102. Puerto Rican Spindalis (formerly Stripe-headed Tanager) (PRe) - (26)
     
103. Puerto Rican Tanager (PRe) - (26)
     
104. Puerto Rican Bullfinch (PRe) - (26)
     
105. Yellow-faced Grassquit - (26)  (subspecies endemic to Puerto Rico)
     
106. Black-faced Grassquit - (26)
     
107. Indigo Bunting - (3)   
     

Mammals & Some Other Wildlife 
during the FONT Puerto Rico tour 
in March 2004

(i): introduced


Small Indian Mongoose (i)

various bats


butterflies