Trinidad Birdwatching Tour

Nariva Swamp Bird List

Nariva Swamp is a vast expanse on the east coast of Trinidad. We saw these birds in the swamp, along the coast at Manzanilla, and traveling along the road in the eastern lowlands. Jogi, our guide, made sure we were in the right place on the coast side of the swamp to see the macaws come to roost in the tall palms at sunset.

• Magnificent frigatebird
• Cattle egret
• Striated or green-backed heron
• Black vulture
• Azure gallinule
• Southern lapwing
• Semipalmated plover
• Wattled jacana
• Solitary sandpiper
• Ruddy ground-dove
• Red-bellied macaw
• Smooth-billed ani
• Green kingfisher
• American pygmy kingfisher
• Yellow-throated spinetail
• Great antshrike
• Black-crested antshrike
• Pied water-tyrant
• White-headed marsh-tyrant
• Great kiskadee
• Tropical kingbird
• Gray-breasted martin
• White-winged swallow
• Rufous-breasted wren
• Bare-eyed thrush
• Red-breasted blackbird
• Yellow-hooded blackbird

Birds in the grass

Howler monkey

Mangroves and vines on the eastern coast near Nariva

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