Trinidad Birdwatching Tour

Mountain Bird List

We saw these birds on our field trips into the mountains. Some of them we also saw at the AsaWright Nature Centre, which is also pretty high up (1200 feet) in the Northern Range. For a complete list of Asa Wright sightings, see the Asa Wright bird list.

On the Blanchisseuse road, in the mountains (in checklist order):

• Black vulture
• Turkey vulture
• Common black-hawk
• Savanna hawk
• Gray hawk
• Zone-tailed hawk
• Rock dove
• Ruddy ground-dove
• Orange-winged parrot (the typical green parrot)
• Smooth-billed ani
• Band-rumped swift
• Gray-rumped swift
• White-tailed trogon
• Collared trogon
• Rufous-tailed jacamar
• Channel-billed toucan
• Lineated woodpecker
• Barred antshrike
• Forest elaenia
• Great kiskadee
• Black-tailed tityra
• Golden-headed manakin
• Cocoa thrush
• Tropical mockingbird
• Turquoise tanager
• Bay-headed tanager
• Blue-gray tanager
• Palm tanager
• Silver-beaked tanager
• Bananaquit
• Green honeycreeper
• Purple Honeycreeper (#1, #2)

Additional birds on remote mountain road:

• Plumbeous kite
• Broad-winged hawk
• Yellow-headed caracara
• Bat falcon
• Ferruginous pygmy-owl
• Blue-crowned motmot (#1, #2)
• Red-rumped woodpecker
• Golden-olive woodpecker
• Streaked xenops
• Plain-brown woodcreeper
• Buff-throated woodcreeper
• White-flanked antwren
• White-bellied antbird
• Yellow-bellied elaenia
• Ochre-bellied flycatcher
• Tropical pewee
• Euler's flycatcher
• White-headed marsh-tyrant
• Tropical kingbird
• Gray kingbird
• Rufous-breasted wren
• Bare-eyed thrush
• Golden-fronted greenlet
• Rufous-browed peppershrike
• Tropical parula
• American redstart
• Blue dacnis
• Trinidad euphonia
• Violaceous euphonia
• White-shouldered tanager
• White-lined tanager

In Blanchisseuse, on the coast:

• Brown pelican
• Magnificent frigatebird

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