Trinidad Birdwatching Tour

Complete Picture List

There's a lot of pictures so we've divided them into categories. If you'd like to see the birds, or the flowers, or the hike to the oilbirds, scroll right down to those sections. You may have seen some of the pictures already in the text. The categories ...

• Around Asa Wright Nature Centre
• Birds and other animals
• Flowers and other plants
• Hike to the oilbird cave
• Trees
• At the coast
• Rainforest and other scenic views
• Nariva and Caroni Swamps
• Towns
• Tobago images

Around Asa Wright Nature Centre

• Pam at the lodge
• Veranda - view from the gardens
• Birdwatching on the veranda
• Pam and local resident on the veranda
• Rest stop on a trail

Birds and other animals

• White-necked Jacobin and black-throated mango at the feeder
• White-necked Jacobin at feeder
• Fast-moving tufted coquette
• White-necked Jacobin on a perch
• Congregation of honeycreepers, bananaquit, and Jacobin
• Purple honeycreepers, male and female #1
• Purple honeycreepers, male and female #2
• Green honeycreeper in the trees
• Cocoa thrush
• Lizard visiting the feeder area
• Purple and green honeycreepers and silver-beaked tanager on the fruit feeder
• Chestnut woodpecker
• Crested oropendola
• Blue-crowned motmot #1
• Blue-crowned motmot #2
• Yellow oriole
• Yellow oriole and pink flowers
• Violaceous trogon
• White-bearded manakin
• Manakin lek
• Red-breasted blackbird on wire
• Yellow-rumped caciques in the pines
• Rufous-tailed jacamar
• See also Tobago images

Flowers and other plants

• Flowers in the trees
• Heliconia, known as lobster claw
• Big red flower
• Coffee au naturel
• Banana in situ
• Red flowers and sensitive plant #1
• Red flowers and sensitive plant #2
• Pink flowers
• See also Tobago images

Hike to the oilbird cave

• Rainforest trail
• Wet forest after rainy morning
• Buttressed tree trunk - hiding place for bushmasters
• Liana vines by the Guacharo
• Oilbirds in their cave by the river

Trees

• Cecropia with oropendola nests
• Bromeliads against the sky
• Immortelle in bloom
• Bamboo close up
• Bamboo grove
• Liana vines
• Bromeliads in many branches
• Cecropia and sky

At the coast

• Boats in Blanchisseuse
• Soccer on the beach in Blanchisseuse
• Beach at Manzanilla
• Portuguese man-of-war at Manzanilla
• Fish jumping in the surf
• See also Tobago images

Rainforest and other scenic views

• Dark dense forest
• Morning light on the forest slopes
• Rain in the mountains
• Mountains on the Blanchisseuse road #1
• Mountains on the Blanchisseuse road #2
• Agricultural station - Trinidad cattle
• See also Tobago images

Nariva and Caroni Swamps

• Vines along river on eastern coast
• Howler monkey near Nariva
• Birds in the grass
• Dwelling in the Nariva Swamp area
• Macaws in royal palms at sunset on the eastern coast
• Clapper rail at Caroni Swamp, deep in shadow
• Scarlet ibis in their roosting tree
• Scarlet ibis in flight
• Egrets flying to the roost

Towns

• Sundries for sale
• Roadside stand with homemade wines
• Vegetable stand

Tobago images

The last three days of our trip were in Tobago, which has its own rainforest and indigenous birds. The Blue Waters Inn looked across the bay at Little Tobago, a nature reserve with a dry terrain and nesting seabirds. We also hiked the interior rainforest and the southern marshes and fields.

• Tobago coconut plantation
• Lizard on tree trunk #1
• Lizard on tree trunk #2
• Red-crowned woodpecker on Tobago
• View of Little Tobago #1
• Snorkeling at Little Tobago
• Bamboo watering trough with blue-gray tanagers on Little Tobago
• Tropicbird nest
• View of Little Tobago #2
• White orchids
• Pink flowers traced against the sky
• Cocoa pods on the tree
• Forest path in highland rainforest on Tobago

Birding in Trinidad: trip report

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Text and web design: Pamela Marshall.
Photos: David Emerson (most) and Pamela Marshall (a few).
Copyright © 1997 Pamela J. Marshall and David J. Emerson. All rights reserved.
Last edited: June 25, 1998.