Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Waterfowl and Seabirds |
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Black-bellied whistling duck |
Dendrocygna autumnalis |
Muscovy Duck |
Cairina moschata |
Neotropic Cormorant |
Nannopterum brasilanum |
Anhinga |
Anhinga anhinga |
Magnificent Frigatebird |
Fregata magnificens |
Brown Pelican |
Pelecanus occidentalus |
Laughing gull |
Leocophaeus atricilla |
Herring gull |
Larus argentinus |
Royal Tern |
Sterna maximus |
Sandwich Tern |
Sterna sandvicensis |
Elegant tern |
Thalasseus elegans |
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Shorebirds |
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Northern Jacana |
Jacana spinosa |
American Oystercatcher |
Haematopus palliatus |
Whimbrel |
Numenius phaopus |
Semipalmated Plover |
Charadrius semipalmatus |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Arenaria interpres |
Wandering Tattler |
Heteroscelus incanus |
Spotted Sandpiper |
Actitis macularia |
Sanderling |
Calidris alba |
Wood Stork |
Mycteria americana |
Herons and allies |
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Little Blue Heron |
Egretta caerules |
Snowy Egret |
Egretta thula |
Great Egret |
Casmerodius albus |
Great Blue Heron |
Ardea herodias |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
Nyctanassa violacea |
Green-backed Green Heron |
Butorides s. virescens |
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron |
Tigrisoma mexicanum |
Boat-billed Heron |
Cochlearius cochlearius |
Cattle Egret |
Bubulcus ibis |
White Ibis |
Eudocimus albus |
Purple Gallinule |
Porphyrula martinica |
Gray-cowled Wood-Rail |
Aramides cajaneus |
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Guans and Tinamous |
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Great Curassow |
Crax rubra |
Crested Guan |
Penelope purpurascens |
Gray-headed chachalaca |
Penelope purpurascens |
Great Tinamou |
Tinamus major |
Little Tinamou |
Crypturellus soui |
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Pigeons and Doves |
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Short-billed Pigeon |
Columba nigrirostris |
Ruddy Ground-Dove |
Columbina talpacoti |
White-tipped Dove |
Leptotila verreauxi |
Gray-chested Dove |
Leptotila cassinii |
Pale-vented Pigeon |
Patagioenas cayennensis |
Ruddy Quail-Dove |
Geotrygon montana |
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Birds of Prey |
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Turkey Vulture |
Cathartes aura |
Black Vulture |
Coragyps atratus |
King Vulture |
Sarcoramphus papa |
Roadside Hawk |
Rupornis magnirostris |
Common Black-Hawk |
Buteogallus anthracinus |
Broad-winged Hawk |
Buteo platypterus |
American Swallow-tailed Kite |
Elanoides forficatus |
White Hawk |
Leucopternis albicollis |
Gray-headed Kite |
Leptodon cayanensis |
Osprey |
Pandion haliaetus |
White-tailed Kite |
Elanus leucurus |
Black-collared Hawk |
Busarellus nigricollis |
Black-shouldered Kite |
Elanus caeruleus |
Tiny Hawk |
Microspizias superciliosus |
Black Hawk-Eagle |
Spizaetus tyrannus |
Crested Caracara |
Polyborus plancus |
Yellow-headed Caracara |
Milvago chimachima |
Laughing Falcon |
Herpetotheres cachinnans |
Bat Falcon |
Falco rufigularis |
Barred Forest-Falcon |
Micrastur ruficollis |
Collared Forest-Falcon |
Micrastur semitorquatus |
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Owls and Potoos |
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Spectacled Owl |
Pulsatrix perspicillata |
Common Barn-Owl |
Tyto alba |
Black-and-white Owl |
Strix nigrolineata |
Common Potoo |
Nyctibius griseus |
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Hummingbirds |
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Little Hermit |
Phaethornis longuemareus |
Long-tailed Hermit |
Phaethornis superciliosus |
Green Hermit |
Phaethornis guy |
Green-breasted Mango |
Anthracothorax prevostii |
White-necked Jacobin |
Florisuga mellivora |
Crowned Woodnymph |
Thalurania colombica |
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird |
Amazilia tzacatl |
Cinnamon Hummingbird |
Amazilia rutila |
Beryl Crowned Hummingbird |
Amazilia decora |
White-crested Coquette |
Lophornis adorabilis |
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Parrots |
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Scarlet Macaw |
Ara macao |
Mealy Parrot |
Amazona farinosa |
Red-lored Parrot |
Amazona autumnalis |
White-crowned Parrot |
Pionus senilis |
Blue-headed Parrot |
Pionus menstruus |
Brown-hooded Parrot |
Pionopsitta haematotis |
Orange-chinned Parakeet |
Brotogeris jugularis |
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Cuckoos |
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Black-billed Cuckoo |
Coccyzus erythropthalmus |
Striped Cuckoo |
Tapera naevia |
Squirrel Cuckoo |
Piaya cayana |
Smooth-billed Ani |
Crotophaga ani |
Common Pauraque |
Nyctidromus albicollis |
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Swallows |
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Barn Swallow |
Hirundo rustica |
Gray-breasted Martin |
Progne chalybea |
Purple Martin |
Progne subis |
Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
Stelgidopteryx serripennis |
Mangrove Swallow |
tachycineta albilinea |
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Trogons |
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Slaty-tailed Trogon |
Trogon massena |
Baird?s Trogon |
Trogon bairdii |
Violaceous Trogon |
Trogon violaceus |
Black-throated Trogon |
Trogon rufus |
Black-headed Trogon |
Trogon melanocephalus |
Great Jacamar |
Jacamerops aurea |
Rufous-tailed Jacamar |
Galbula ruficauda |
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Motmots, Kingfishers, Toucans, Large Woodpeckers |
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Ringed Kingfisher |
Ceryle torquata |
Belted Kingfisher |
Ceryle alcyon |
Amazon Kingfisher |
Chloroceryle amazona |
Green Kingfisher |
Chloroceryle americana |
American Pygmy Kingfisher |
Chloroceryle aenea |
Blue-crowned Motmot |
Momotus momota |
Lineated Woodpecker |
Dryocopus lineatus |
Pale-billed Woodpecker |
Campephilus guatemalensis |
Fiery-billed Aracari |
Pteroglossus frantzii |
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan |
Ramphastos swainsonii |
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Woodpeckers and Woodcreepers |
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Prong-billed Barbet |
Semnornis frantzii |
White-necked Puffbird |
Bucco macrorhynchos |
White-whiskered Puffbird |
Malacoptila panamensis |
Red-crowned Woodpecker |
Melanerpes rubricapillus |
Golden-naped Woodpecker |
Melanerpes chrysauchen |
Olivaceous Piculet |
Picumnus alivaceus |
Plain Xenops |
Xenops minutus |
Ruddy Treerunner |
Margarornis rubiginosus |
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper |
Glyphorhynchus spirurus |
Streaked-headed Woodcreeper |
Lepidocolaptes souleyetii |
Tawny-winged Woodcreeper |
Dendrocincla anabatina |
Black-striped Woodcreeper |
Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus |
Buff-throated Woodcreeper |
Xiphorhynchus guttatus |
Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner |
Automolus ochrolaemus |
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Antbirds |
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Black-faced Antthrush |
Formicarius analis |
Rufous-breasted Antthrush |
Formicarius rufipectus |
Spectacled Antpitta |
Hylopezus perspicillatus |
Barred Antshrike |
Thamnophilus doliatus |
Black-hooded Antshrike |
Thamnophilus bridgesi |
Bi-colored Antbird |
Gymnopithys leucaspis |
Chestnut-backed Antbird |
Myrmeciza exsul |
Bare-crowned Antbird |
Gymnocichla nudiceps |
Dotted-winged Antwren |
Microrhopias quixensis |
Tawny-crowned Greenlet |
Hylophilus ochraceiceps |
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Manakins |
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Red-capped Manakin |
Pipra mentalis |
Blue-crowned Manakin |
Pipra coronata |
Thrushlike Manakin |
Shiffornis turdinus |
Cinnamon Becard |
Pachyramphus cinnamomeus |
White-winged Becard |
Pachyramphus polychopterus |
Orange-collared |
Manacus aurantiacus |
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Tityras and Cotingas |
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Masked Tityra |
Tityra semifasciata |
Black-crowned Tityra |
Tityra inquisitor |
Yellow-billed Cotinga |
Carpodectes antoniae |
Turquoise Cotinga |
Cotinga ridgwayi |
Rofous Mourner |
Rhytipterna holerythra |
Rufous Piha |
Lipaugus unirufus |
Three-wattled Bellbird |
Procnias tricarunculata |
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Flycatchers |
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Tropical Kingbird |
Tytannus melancholicus |
Bright-rumped Attila |
Attila spadiceus |
Streaked Flycatcher |
Mayiodynastes maculatus |
Boat-billed Flycatcher |
Megarhynchus pitangua |
Great Kiskadee |
Pitangus sulphuratus |
Social Flycatcher |
Myiozetetes similis |
Gray-capped Flycatcher |
Myiozetetes granadensis |
Great Crested Flycatcher |
Myiarchus crinitus |
Dusky-capped Flycatcher |
Myiarchus tuberculifer |
Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher |
Myiobius sulphureipygius |
Black-tailed Flycatcher |
Myiobius atricaudus |
Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher |
Terenotriccus erythrurus |
Golden-crowned Spadebill |
Platyrinchus coronatus |
Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant |
Lophotriccus pileatus |
Common Tody-Flycatcher |
Todirostrum cinereum |
Yellow Tyrannulet |
Capsiempis flaveola |
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet |
Camptostoma obsoletum |
Yellow-bellied Elaenia |
Elaenia flavogaster |
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Wrens |
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Riverside Wren |
Thryothorus semibadius |
Timberline Wren |
Thryorchilus browni |
Plain Wren |
Thryothorus modestus |
House Wren |
Troglodytes aedon |
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Thrushes |
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Wood Thrush |
Hylocichla mustelina |
Clay-colored Robin |
Turdus grayi |
White-throated Robin |
Turdus assimilis |
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Vireos and Warblers |
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Green Shrike-Vireo |
Vireolanius pulchellus |
Red-eyed Vireo |
Vireo olivaceus |
Lesser Greenlet |
Hylophilus decurtatus |
Scrub Greenlet |
Hylophilus flavipes |
Tennessee Warbler |
Vermivora peregrina |
Buff-rumped Warbler |
Phaeothlypis fulvicauda |
Bananaquit |
Coereba flaveola |
Tropical Gnatcatcher |
Polioptila plumbea |
American Redstart |
Setophaga ruticilla |
Black-and-white Warbler |
Mniotilta varia |
Yellow Warbler |
Dendroica petechia |
Mangrove Warbler |
Dendroica petechia erithachorides |
Mourning Warbler |
Oporornis philadelphia |
Kentucky Warbler |
Oporornis formosus |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Dendroica pensylvanica |
Louisiana Waterthrush |
Seiurus motacilla |
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Icterids |
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Northern (Baltimore) Oriole |
Icterus g. galbula |
Scarlet-rumped Cacique |
Cacicus uropygialis |
Yellow-billed Cacique |
Amblycercus holosericeus |
Great-tailed Grackle |
Quiscalus nicaraguensis |
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Tanager |
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Yellow-crowned Euphonia |
Euphonia luteicapilla |
Spotted-crowned Euphonia |
Euphonia imitans |
Thick-billed Euphonia |
Euphonia laniirostris |
Gray-headed Tanager |
Eucometis penicillata |
Palm Tanager |
Thraupis palmarum |
Shining Honeycreeper |
Cyanerpes lucidus |
Red-legged Honeycreeper |
Cyanerpes cyaneus |
Green Honeycreeper |
Chlorophanes spiza |
Bay-headed Tanager |
Tangara gyrola |
Rufous-winged Tanager |
Tangara lavinia |
Golden-hooded Tanager |
Tangara larvata |
Blue-gray Tanager |
Thraupis episcopus |
White-lined Tanager |
Tachyphonus rufus |
White-shouldered Tanager |
Tachyphonus luctuosus |
White-throated Shrike-Tanager |
Lanio leucothorax |
Scarlet-rumped Tanager |
Ramphocelus passerinii |
Summer Tanager |
Piranga rubra |
Hepatic Tanager |
Piranga flava |
Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager |
Habia atrimaxillaris |
Rosy Thrush-Tanager |
Rhodinochichla rosea |
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Grosbeaks, Seedeaters, Sparrows |
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Buff-throated Saltator |
Saltator maximus |
Blue-black Grosbeak |
Cyanocompsa cyanoides |
Orange-billed Sparrow |
Arremon aurantiirostris |
Variable Seedeater |
Sporophila aurita |
Blue-black Grassquit |
Volatinia jacarina |
Black-striped Sparrow |
Arremonops conirostris |
House Sparrow |
Passer domesticus |
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Others |
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Common Pauraque |
Nyctidromus albicollis |
Nashville Warbler |
Vermivora ruficapilla |