We just completed a 17-day birding tour of Costa Rica in which we
travelled fairly widely within the country. Our expert local guide, Alex
Villegas, was with us once again, as on our trip in November (See trip
report on Birdchat of 12/10/98). Our group included Mary Reese from
Oregon, my wife Nancy and me along with Alex and our driver, Eric.
We got off to a fast start on day one by going to a site that Alex had
just learned about from a researcher working on three-wattled bellbirds.
Within minutes we were hearing the strange call(?) all around us and
were treated to three individuals in the same scope field while a
ferruginous pygmy-owl scolded us.
On the way up the mountain to Monteverde, the resident bat falcons were
present. We closed the evening with an owling session that yielded great
looks at a bare-shanked screech-owl after following a trail off the road
to Monteverde Reserve.
The next day was spent entirely in the Monteverde Reserve. Alex found a
perched resplendent quetzal male and showed it to all passersby, but the
bird of the day was definitely the buff-fronted quail-dove that Nancy
cut off at the pass. The bird walked across the path about 5 feet from
Gordon's 2 feet. Mary even had time to take a picture. Hope that one
turns out.
The evening's owling session included Alex's wife and two daughters,
ages 3 and 7. After an hour or so, a mottled owl showed itself to the
group.
The next morning was spent in the Santa Elena Reserve. It was a day for
skulkers and soarers. A silvery-fronted tapaculo was seen well by Mary
and Alex, not so well by Nancy and me. Then a zeledonia was called out
by Alex and literally walked through our ranks, closing with an angry
display of wing-fluttering on a log so close we had to drop our
binoculars as we watched the sun play on it's tawny crest.
At a scenic overlook of Arenal Volcano, Alex suddenly shouted "Black
hawk-eagle!" Actually there were two birds displaying in flight. I won't
soon forget the words of one party member on being asked the current
location of the hawk-eagles. "Middle of the volcano, in the puffy
cloud."
On the ride down the mountain, the car suddenly stopped. Zone-tailed
hawk soaring overhead. I would have dismissed this bird 10 times out of
10 as a turkey vulture, but thanks to this lesson, I spotted two more
later in the trip.
A stop at Solimar Farm in Guanacaste province yielded several
hard-to-get species, including Nutting's flycatcher, greenish elaenia,
and banded wren. We invited a family to join us for a brief outing to
the wetlands. The father was French, the mother from New Zealand, and
they live in Costa Rica. Their four boys, ranging in age from
approximately 5 to 12 years are all trilingual. I commented that perhaps
they would grow up to be diplomats.
"Or terrorists!" was the father's retort.
On our arrival at Ecolodge outside of Arenal, we went for a late
afternoon walk in the gardens. There were three birds in a bare tree and
Alex at first pronounced them to be bay-headed tanagers, but then
changed the call to rufous-winged tanager, a lifer for him! What a great
punctuation mark to the day!
The next day was spent entirely on the trails of the hotel. The hotel
maintains some terrific habitat for it's birding clientele. One of the
first birds of the day was the second (and final) lifer for Alex on the
trip, dull-mantled antbird. Alex sings, "New bird for meeee". And for
us, of course.
Other worthy birds this day were rufous-browed tyrannulet, nightingale
wren, song wren, and the elusive white-throated shrike-tanager (great
looks all).
We closed the day stalking a fulvous-bellied antpitta. Alex heard the
bird, positioned the group, and mimicked the call from varying positions
on the trail. Gordon got a reasonable look early on and stood back to
watch the others try. After about an hour of crouching and staring at
the understory, the bird flew onto a branch for an "in-your-face" look
for Nancy just a few feet away. Another exclamation point!
The next morning was slated for mop-up of missed species, but started
with a surprise. A tiny hawk flew to a branch near the group. In a
flash, Alex's scope was trained on the diminutive predator and its prey
- a song wren. We watched a full scope view for about 40 minutes as the
hawk proceeded with its breakfast. This was a bird that was previously
unknown to the site (Alex maintains the site list).
In the meantime, a slaty-backed forest falcon posed and some group
members tried to improve their looks at ocellated antbird. But bird of
the day may have been the great looks the group had at a singing
spectacled antpitta in the scope.
The next day was at La Selva OTS Station. We started fast with great and
fasciated antshrikes outside the gate. Nancy found some snowy cotingas
in a distant tree and at one point Alex coaxed a great tinamou to walk
through the party.
In late afternoon, yellow-tailed oriole and pink-billed (Nicaraguan)
seed-finch were found and then it got hectic. We were hoping for a look
at the little tinamou that was calling maybe 15 feet away in the high
grass when a white-throated crake sang out on the other side of us. Alex
threw himself on the hand grenade and went for the
almost-impossible-to-see crake, though the tinamou would have been a
lifer for him. As we approached the crake, the tinamou decided it was a
good idea to distract us by coming closer. Our heads were spinning,
trying to get looks at whichever bird presented itself first when
Orlando, a guide at La Selva who joined us for the fun of it, yelled
"short-tailed nighthawk". A quick look over the shoulder and back to
serious birding! We got a full (if dark) view of the crake as daylight
expired. The tinamou will have to wait for another day.
Owling that night at a secret spot yielded our most up-close and
personal ever encounter with an owl. Alex called to a distant
vermiculated screech-owl in the dark. He saw one bird fly in, while I
saw one fly past. We could hear the faint call in the dark and Alex said
"Get ready". I thought he was kidding. The call sounded a mile away.
Then he put the spotlight on the bird just 10 feet over our heads and 5
feet off the trail! This bird is a ventriloquist. The soft whimper still
sounded a mile away. Alex talked to this bird for about 15 minutes,
imitating the owl, great potoos, and other species. The bird never
flinched and sometimes puffed itself up and angled its head to stare
intimidatingly down at us with its deep yellow eyes. I thought Nancy
would lose all control when the bird suddenly winked its left eye.
The following day shall go down as the great green macaw hunt. After
finding a pinned down tawny-chested flycatcher at El Gavilan Hotel in
the morning, we hired a boat for the one hour ride at full throttle to a
site known to one of Alex friends who is closely involved with
conservation efforts to save the great green. Alex told us it was a
20-minute walk from the landing to the macaw tree. 20 minutes when it's
dry, maybe. But this day we found ourselves soon slogging through mud,
trying to keep our shoes dry.
Once your shoes got submerged, you could go faster, because you no
longer cared about staying clean (too late for that). But then it became
a matter of making progress in the ever-deepening mud. The group got
strung out as various members chose better or worse paths, and
eventually Alex had to go back to try to help Mary, who had gone in
quite deep. Gordon and Nancy had regained a dry patch of ground up ahead
with the boat pilot and watched a local farmer walking with a horse
toward Alex and Mary in the distance. Gordon offered a bet that Alex and
Mary would return on the horse. No one was foolish enough to accept.
Technically, they would have won because only Mary was astride the horse
when they caught up to us. Alex had told the farmer in a tearful voice
"This lady came all the way from the United States to see your birds,
and now she can't walk through the mud."
So we saw the macaws (10 in one tree in perfect light, with an eleventh
calling from behind us). SPECTACULAR!!! And good news for conservation
as there had previously been reported no more than six birds at this
site.
Our day on Cerro de la Muerte (Ridge of Death) was one of extremes.
Cold, high wind, low oxygen, and hot birding! Almost everything seen was
new for the trip. Highlights were a huge mixed flock led by a buffy
tuftedcheek, timberline wren, yellow-winged vireo, the incredibly
beautiful flame-throated warbler (eat your hearts out, Blackburnians)
and a high stakes game of hide-and-seek with a peg-billed finch in the
low scrub of the paramo.
Day 12 was simply magic. The morning at Los Cusingos, the home of
Alexander Skutch, the grand old gentleman of Costa Rican birding, was
eye-popping. The riot of color in his front yard was without precedent
in my birding life. Dr. Skutch places a banana on his window sill as he
eats breakfast. The species I recall partaking were clay-colored robin,
blue-gray tanager, Cherrie's (scarlet-rumped) tanager, speckled tanager
(many!), buff-throated saltator, palm tanager, bay-headed tanager,
golden-hooded tanager, and green honeycreeper. The nearby trees also
gave good looks at male and female turquoise cotingas and a long-billed
starthroat. If I die and heaven isn't all I expected, I'm going back to
Los Cusingos.
Carara provided a fitting conclusion to the holiday. Consecutive owling
sessions yielded a pair of black-and-white owls sharing a branch and a
striped owl 10 feet from the car. Other good finds were american pygmy
kingfisher, king vulture (seen through a hole in the canopy), scrub
flycatcher, rufous-browed peppershrike, green shrike-vireo (illuminated
in the canopy by Alex's trusty mirror),
mangrove vireo, and scrub greenlet.
The total species for the trip was 485 birds in 15 full days. 16 were
"heard only" birds. These are designated with an (H) on the list. Our
thanks once again to Alex and his amazing ears. I'm thinking more than
ever of moving to this wonderful country one day and eagerly anticipate
our next trip with Alex.
Gordon Gover
Bridgewater, NJ
gdgover@hotmail.com
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TINAMOUS
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Great Tinamou
- Little Tinamou (H)
- Slaty-breasted Tinamou (H)
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GREBES
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PELICANS
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BOOBIES
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CORMORANTS
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ANHINGAS
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FRIGATEBIRDS
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HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS
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Bare-throated Tiger-heron
- Boat-billed Heron
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Great Blue Heron
- Tricolored Heron
- Little Blue Heron
- Snowy Egret
- Cattle Egret
- Great Egret
- Green Heron
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STORKS
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VULTURES
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Black Vulture
- Turkey Vulture
- King Vulture
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IBISES AND SPOONBILLS
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White Ibis
- Glossy Ibis
- Roseate Spoonbill
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DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE
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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
- Muscovy Duck
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OSPREY
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HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES
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Swallow-tailed Kite
- Snail Kite
- Double-toothed Kite
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Tiny Hawk
- Semiplumbeous Hawk
- Gray Hawk
- Mangrove Black-Hawk
- Harris's Hawk
- Roadside Hawk
- Short-tailed Hawk
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Zone-tailed Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Black Hawk-eagle
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FALCONS AND CARACARAS
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Crested Caracara
- Yellow-headed Caracara
- Laughing Falcon
- Slaty-backed Forest Falcon
- American Kestrel
- Bat Falcon
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GUANS, CHACHALACAS, AND CURASSOWS
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Gray-Headed Chachalaca
- Crested Guan
- Black Guan
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QUAILS
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Black-breasted Wood-quail
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LIMPKINS
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RAILS, CRAKES, AND ALLIES
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Gray-necked Wood-rail
- White-throated Crake
- Purple Gallinule
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SUNGREBES
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JACANAS
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AVOCETS AND STILTS
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THICK-KNEES
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Double-striped Thick-knee
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PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS
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Black-bellied Plover
- Semipalmated Plover
- Wilson's Plover
- Snowy Plover
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SANDPIPERS
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Whimbrel
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Willet
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Sanderling
- Western Sandpiper
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- Baird's Sandpiper
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GULLS AND TERNS
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Laughing Gull
- Franklin's Gull
- Royal Tern
- Sandwich Tern
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SKIMMERS
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PIGEONS AND DOVES
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Rock Dove
- Scaled Pigeon
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Pale-vented Pigeon
- Red-billed Pigeon
- Ruddy Pigeon
- Short-Billed Pigeon
- White-winged Dove
- Common Ground-Dove
- Ruddy Ground-Dove
- Inca Dove
- Blue Ground-Dove
- White-tipped Dove
- Gray-chested Dove
- Buff-fronted Quail-dove
- Chiriqui Quail-dove
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PARROTS
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Scarlet Macaw
- Great Green Macaw
- Crimson-fronted Parakeet
- Olive-throated Parakeet
- Orange-fronted Parakeet
- Orange-chinned Parakeet
- Brown-hooded Parrot
- White-crowned Parrot
- White-fronted Parrot
- Red-lored Parrot
- Yellow-Naped Parrot
- Mealy Parrot
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CUCKOOS
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Mangrove Cuckoo
- Squirrel Cuckoo
- Groove-billed Ani
- Striped Cuckoo (H)
- Lesser Ground-Cuckoo (H)
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OWLS
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Pacific Screech-owl
- Vermiculated Screech-owl
- Bare-shanked Screech-owl
- Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
- Mottled Owl
- Black-and-white Owl
- Striped Owl
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POTOOS
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NIGHTJARS
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Short-tailed Nighthawk
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Pauraque
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SWIFTS
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Chestnut-collared Swift
- White-Collared Swift
- Vaux's Swift
- Band-Rumped Swift
- Gray-Rumped Swift
- Lesser Swallow-Tailed Swift
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HUMMINGBIRDS
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Bronzy Hermit
- Long-Tailed Hermit
- Green Hermit
- Little Hermit
- Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
- Violet Sabrewing
- White-Necked Jacobin
- Brown Violet-Ear
- Green Violet-ear
- Green-breasted Mango
- Violet-headed Hummingbird
- Green Thorntail
- Fork-tailed Emerald
- Crowned Woodnymph
- Fiery-Throated Hummingbird
- Blue-Throated Goldentail
- Beryl-crowned Hummingbird
- Blue-chested Hummingbird
- Steely-Vented Hummingbird
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
- Cinnamon Hummingbird
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
- Stripe-tailed Hummingbird
- Coppery-Headed Emerald
- Snowcap
- White-bellied Mountain-gem
- Purple-Throated Mountain-gem
- Green-crowned Brilliant
- Magnificent Hummingbird
- Purple-Crowned Fairy
- Plain-capped Starthroat
- Long-billed Starthroat
- Magenta-throated Woodstar
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Volcano Hummingbird
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TROGONS AND QUETZALS
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Resplendent Quetzal
- Slaty-Tailed Trogon
- Baird's Trogon
- Black-Headed Trogon
- Collared Trogon
- Orange-Bellied Trogon
- Black-Throated Trogon
- Violaceous Trogon
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KINGFISHERS
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Ringed Kingfisher
- Belted Kingfisher
- Amazon Kingfisher
- Green Kingfisher
- American Pygmy Kingfisher
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MOTMOTS
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Broad-Billed Motmot
- Turquoise-browed Motmot
- Rufous Motmot
- Blue-Crowned Motmot
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JACAMARS
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PUFFBIRDS
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BARBETS
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Red-Headed Barbet
- Prong-Billed Barbet
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TOUCANS
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Emerald Toucanet
- Collared Aracari
- Fiery-billed Aracari
- Keel-Billed Toucan
- Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan
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WOODPECKERS
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Golden-Naped Woodpecker
- Black-Cheeked Woodpecker
- Hoffmann's Woodpecker
- Red-Crowned Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Smoky-Brown Woodpecker
- Golden-Olive Woodpecker
- Rufous-Winged Woodpecker
- Lineated Woodpecker
- Pale-Billed Woodpecker
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WOODCREEPERS
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Plain-brown Woodcreeper
- Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper
- Wedge-Billed Woodcreeper
- Barred Woodcreeper
- Cocoa (Buff-throated) Woodcreeper
- Spotted Woodcreeper
- Streaked-Headed Woodcreeper
- Brown-Billed Scythebill (H)
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FURNARIIDS AND SPINETAILS
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Slaty Spinetail
- Red-Faced Spinetail
- Spotted Barbtail
- Ruddy Treerunner
- Buffy Tuftedcheek
- Lineated Foliage-Gleaner
- Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner
- Tawny-throated Leaftosser (H)
- Plain Xenops
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ANTBIRDS
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Fasciated Antshrike
- Great Antshrike
- Barred Antshrike
- Black-Hooded Antshrike
- Slaty Antshrike (H)
- Russet Antshrike
- Plain Antvireo
- Slaty Antwren
- Dot-winged Antwren
- Dusky Antbird
- Chestnut-Backed Antbird
- Dull-mantled Antbird
- Bicolored Antbird
- Spotted Antbird
- Ocellated Antbird
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ANTTHRUSHES AND ANTPITTAS
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Black-faced Antthrush
- Black-headed Antthrush (H)
- Spectacled Antpitta
- Fulvous-bellied Antpitta
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TAPACULOS
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BECARDS AND TITYRAS
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Barred Becard
- Cinnamon Becard
- White-Winged Becard
- Rose-Throated Becard (H)
- Masked Tityra
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COTINGAS AND ALLIES
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Rufous Piha
- Turquoise Cotinga
- Snowy Cotinga
- Purple-Throated Fruitcrow
- Three-wattled Bellbird
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MANAKINS
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Red-Capped Manakin
- Blue-Crowned Manakin
- Long-Tailed Manakin
- White-Ruffed Manakin
- Orange-Collared Manakin
- White-Collared Manakin
- Thrushlike Schiffornis (Manakin)
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FLYCATCHERS
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Black Phoebe
- Long-Tailed Tyrant
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Tropical Kingbird
- Piratic Flycatcher
- White-ringed Flycatcher
- Boat-billed Flycatcher
- Bright-Rumped Attila
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
- Streaked Flycatcher
- Golden-Bellied Flycatcher
- Gray-Capped Flycatcher
- Social Flycatcher
- Great Kiskadee
- Rufous Mourner
- Brown-crested Flycatcher
- Nutting's Flycatcher
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Dusky-Capped Flycatcher
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Western Wood-Pewee
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Tropical Pewee
- Tawny-chested Flycatcher
- Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher
- Yellowish Flycatcher
- Black-capped Flycatcher
- Tufted Flycatcher
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
- Black-Tailed Flycatcher
- Royal Flycatcher (H)
- White-Throated Spadebill
- Golden-Crowned Spadebill
- Yellow-olive Flycatcher
- Yellow-margined Flycatcher
- Eye-ringed Flatbill
- Black-headed Tody-flycatcher
- Common Tody-flycatcher
- Northern Bentbill
- Scale-Crested Pygmy-Tyrant
- Black-Capped Pygmy-Tyrant
- Rufous-browed Tyrannulet
- Yellow Tyrannulet
- Torrent Tyrannulet
- Yellow-Bellied Elaenia
- Lesser Elaenia
- Mountain Elaenia
- Greenish Elaenia
- Scrub Flycatcher
- Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
- Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet (H)
- Paltry Tyrannulet
- Slaty-Capped Flycatcher
- Olive-Striped Flycatcher
- Ochre-Bellied Flycatcher
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SWALLOWS
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Gray-Breasted Martin
- Barn Swallow
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Blue and White Swallow
- Mangrove Swallow
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CROWS AND JAYS
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White-Throated Magpie-Jay
- Brown Jay
- Azure-Hooded Jay
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WRENS
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Band-Backed Wren
- Rufous-Naped Wren
- Plain Wren (both races)
- Rufous and White Wren
- Stripe-breasted Wren
- Bay Wren
- Riverside Wren
- Banded Wren
- Black-Throated Wren
- Black-Bellied Wren
- Rufous-Breasted Wren
- House Wren
- Ochraceous Wren
- Timberline Wren
- White-breasted Wood-wren
- Gray-Breasted Wood-wren
- Nightingale Wren
- Song Wren
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MIMIDS
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THRUSHES AND ALLIES
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White-Throated Robin
- Clay-Colored Robin
- Pale-Vented Robin
- Mountain Robin
- Sooty Robin
- Black-Faced Solitaire
- Wood Thrush
- Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
- Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush
- Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush
- Orange-Billed Nightingale-Thrush
- Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush
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GNATCATCHERS AND GNATWRENS
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White-Lored Gnatcatcher
- Tropical Gnatcatcher
- Long-billed Gnatwren
- Tawny-faced Gnatwren
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SILKY FLYCATCHERS
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Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher (H)
- Black-and-Yellow Silky-Flycatcher
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VIREOS AND ALLIES
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Rufous-browed Peppershrike
- Green Shrike-Vireo
- Mangrove Vireo
- Yellow-winged Vireo
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-green Vireo
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Brown-capped Vireo (H)
- Scrub Greenlet
- Tawny-crowned Greenlet
- Lesser Greenlet
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BANANAQUITS
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WARBLERS
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Black-and-white Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Worm-Eating Warbler
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Tennessee Warbler
- Flame-throated Warbler
- Tropical Parula
- Yellow Warbler
- Mangrove Warbler
- Black-Throated Green Warbler
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Chestnut-Sided Warbler
- Ovenbird
- Northern Waterthrush
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Kentucky Warbler
- Olive-Crowned Yellowthroat
- Gray-Crowned Yellowthroat
- Wilson's Warbler
- Slate-Throated Redstart
- Collared Redstart
- Three-Striped Warbler
- Golden-Crowned Warbler
- Black-cheeked Warbler
- Rufous-Capped Warbler
- Buff-rumped Warbler
- Zeledonia
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ICTERIDS
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Chestnut-Headed Oropendola
- Montezuma Oropendola
- Scarlet-Rumped Cacique
- Yellow-Billed Cacique
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Melodious Blackbird
- Great-Tailed Grackle
- Orchard Oriole
- Yellow-tailed Oriole
- Spot-breasted Oriole
- Baltimore Oriole
- Streak-Backed Oriole
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
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EUPHONIAS
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Golden-browed Chlorophonia
- Blue-hooded Euphonia (H)
- Tawny-Capped Euphonia
- Scrub Euphonia
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia
- Thick-billed Euphonia
- Yellow-throated Euphonia
- Olive-Backed Euphonia
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HONEYCREEPERS, TANAGERS AND ALLIES
- Emerald Tanager
- Speckled Tanager
- Silver-Throated Tanager
- Golden-Hooded Tanager
- Plain-Colored Tanager
- Rufous-winged Tanager
- Bay-headed Tanager
- Spangled-cheeked Tanager
- Green Honeycreeper
- Red-legged Honeycreeper
- Shining Honeycreeper
- Blue Dacnis
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
- Blue and Gold Tanager
- Blue-gray Tanager
- Palm Tanager
- Passerini's Tanager
- Cherrie's Tanager
- Crimson-collared Tanager
- Summer Tanager
- Hepatic Tanager
- Olive Tanager
- Red-crowned Ant-tanager
- Red-throated Ant-tanager
- White-throated Shrike-tanager
- White-lined Tanager
- White-shouldered Tanager
- Gray-headed Tanager
- Dusky-Faced Tanager
- Black-and-Yellow Tanager
- Common Bush-tanager
- Sooty-capped Bush-tanager
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BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, FINCHES, ALLIES
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Black-headed Saltator
- Buff-throated Saltator
- Grayish Saltator
- Black-faced Grosbeak
- Slate-colored Grosbeak
- Black-thighed Grosbeak
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Blue-black Grosbeak
- Yellow-Faced Grassquit
- White-collared Seedeater
- Variable Seedeater
- Pink-billed (Nicaraguan) Seed-finch
- Thick-billed Seed-finch
- Blue-Black Grassquit
- Slaty Finch
- Peg-billed Finch
- Slaty Flowerpiercer
- Large-footed Finch
- Yellow-thighed Finch
- Yellow-Throated Brush-Finch
- Chestnut-Capped Brush-Finch
- Sooty-Faced Finch (H)
- Orange-Billed Sparrow
- Olive Sparrow
- Black-Striped Sparrow
- White-Eared Ground-Sparrow
- Striped-Headed Sparrow
- Volcano Junco
- Rufous-Collared Sparrow
- House Sparrow