Trinidad Birdwatching Tour

Lowlands Bird List

We visited several grassy and brushy sites in the hot, somewhat drier lowlands. The grasslands of the agricultural station, the brushy abandoned runways of the abandoned Wallerfield U.S. military base, and the Arena dam and reservoir were some of the locations. These are some of the birds:

• Pied-billed grebe
• Olivaceous cormorant
• Great egret
• Little blue heron
• Cattle egret
• Immature scarlet ibis
• Black-bellied whistling duck
• Black vulture
• Gray-headed kite
• Plumbeous kite
• Pearl kite
• Common black-hawk
• Savanna hawk
• Broad-winged hawk
• Yellow-headed caracara
• Southern lapwing
• Common ground-dove
• Ruddy ground-dove
• Red-bellied macaw
• Orange-winged parrot
• Squirrel cuckoo
• Little cuckoo
• Smooth-billed ani
• Fork-tailed palm-swift
• Ruby-topaz hummingbird
• Violaceous trogon
• Southern beardless-tyrannulet
• Yellow-bellied elaenia
• Great kiskadee
• Piratic flycatcher
• Tropical kingbird
• Tropical mockingbird
• Bananaquit
• Bay-headed tanager
• Green honeycreeper
• Purple honeycreeper
• Red-legged honeycreeper
• Violaceous euphonia
• Blue-gray tanager
• Palm tanager
• Silver-beaked tanager
• White-lined tanager
• Red-crowned ant-tanager
• Blue-black grassquit
• Yellow-bellied seedeater
• Ruddy-breasted seedeater
• Red-breasted blackbird
• Giant cowbird
• Yellow oriole
• Yellow-rumped cacique
• Crested oropendola

Red flowers and senstive mimosa

Birding at Arena Reservoir

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