Checklist of the Birds of Costa Rica
Numbers correspond to the plates in Stiles & Skutch's "A Guide To The Birds of Costa Rica."
An "NI" means that there is no illustration for that bird in Stiles & Skutch's.
Prepared by Steve Brauning
1999
e-mail: stevebrauning@yahoo.com
1. Brown Booby
2. Red-footed Booby
3. Masked Booby
4. Blue-footed Booby
5. Great Frigatebird
6. Magnificent Frigatebird ...
7. Red-billed Tropicbird
8. Pink-footed Shearwater
9. Sooty Shearwater
10. Wedge-tailed Shearwater
11. Dark-rumped Petrel
12. Parkinson's (Black) Petrel
13. Short-tailed Shearwater
14. Audubon's Shearwater
15. Black-capped Petrel
Plate 2: Small Terns & Storm-Petrels
1. Gull-billed Tern
2. Bridled Tern
3. Sooty Tern
4. Least Tern
5. Common Tern
6. Black Tern
7. Black Noddy
8. Brown Noddy
9. Forster's Tern
10. White Tern
11. White-faced Storm-Petrel
12. Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel
13. Least Storm-Petrel
14. Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
15. Wilson's Storm-Petrel
16. Leach's Storm-Petrel
17. Black Storm-Petrel
NI. Markham's (Sooty) Storm-Petrel
Plate 3: Large Terns, Gulls, & Jaegers
1. Caspian Tern
2. Royal Tern
3. Elegant Tern
4. Sandwich Tern
5. Franklin's Gull
6. Bonaparte's Gull
7. Sabine's Gull
8. Laughing Gull
9. Ring-billed Gull
10. Herring Gull
11. Black Skimmer
12. South Polar Skua
13. Pomarine Jaeger
14. Parasitic Jaeger
15. Long-tailed Jaeger
NI. Great Skua
Plate 51. Gray Gull
Plate 51 Heermann's Gull
Plate 4: Large Waterbirds
1. Brown Pelican
2. American White Pelican
3. Anhinga
4. Olivaceous Cormorant
5. Jabiru
6. Wood Stork
7. Roseate Spoonbill
8. White Ibis
9. Glossy Ibis
10. Green Ibis
NI . . White-faced Ibis Plate 5: Herons & Limpkin
1. Chestnut-bellied Heron
2. Boat-billed Heron
3. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
4. Black-crowned Night-Heron
5. Limpkin
6. Great Blue Heron
7. Reddish Egret
8. Tricolored Heron
9. Little Blue Heron
10. Snowy Egret
11. Pinnated Bittern
12. American Bittern
13. Cattle Egret
14. Great Egret
15. Fasciated Tiger-Heron
16. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
17. Rufescent Tiger-Heron Plate 6: Marsh & Stream Birds
1. Striated Heron
2. Green Heron
3. Least Bittern
4. Spotted Rail
5. Black Rail
6. Gray-breasted Crake
7. Ocellated Crake
8.Uniform Crake
9.White-throated Crake
10.Yellow-breasted Crake
11. Ruddy Crake
12.Sora
13. Gray-necked Woodrail
14. Rufous-necked Woodrail
15. Purple Gallinule
16. Sunbittern
17. Wattled Jacana
18. Northern Jacana
Plate 51. Paint-billed Crake
Plate 7: Swimming & Diving Waterbirds
1. American Coot
2. Common Moorhen
3. Pied-billed Grebe
4. Least Grebe
5. Greater Scaup
6. Lesser Scaup
7. Ring-necked Duck
8. Masked Duck
9. Sungrebe
Plate 51. Eared Grebe
Plate 8: Ducks
1. Northern Shoveler
2. Northern Pintail
3. Cinnamon Teal
4. Green-winged Teal
5. Blue-winged Teal
6. American Wigeon
7. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
8. White-faced Whistling-Duck
9. Fulvous Whistling-Duck
10. Muscovy Duck
NI. Mallard
Plate 9: Shorebirds 1: Large Species
1. Black-bellied Plover
2. Lesser Golden-Plover
3.Short-billed Dowitcher
4. Long-billed Dowitcher
5. Common Snipe
6. Willet
7. Hudsonian Godwit
8. Marbled Godwit
9. American Oystercatcher
10. Double-striped Thick-knee
11. American Avocet
12. Black-necked Stilt
13. Long-billed Curlew
14. Whimbrel
Plate 10, Shorebirds 2: Small Plovers, Phalaropes, & Rocky Shore Species
1. Killdeer
2. Wilson's Plover
3. Collared Plover
4. Snowy Plover
5. Semipalmated Plover
6. Ruddy Turnstone
7. Surfbird
8.Wandering Tattler
9. Wilson's Phalarope
10. Red-necked Phalarope
11. Red Phalarope
Plate 11: Shorebirds 3: Sandpipers
1. Ruff
2. Greater Yellowlegs
3. Lesser Yellowlegs
4. Solitary Sandpiper
5. Short-billed Dowitcher(see plate 9)
6. Stilt Sandpiper
7. Pectoral Sandpiper
8. Spotted Sandpiper
9. Curlew Sandpiper
10. Dunlin
11. Sanderling
12. Western Sandpiper
13. Semi-palmated Sandpiper
14. Least Sandpiper
15. Baird's Sandpiper
16. White-rumped Sandpiper
17. Upland Sandpiper
18. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
19. Red Knot
Plate 12: Chachalacas, Guans, Quails, & Tinamous
1. Gray-headed Chachalaca
2. Plain(White-bellied) Chachalaca
3. Great Curassow
4. Crested Guan.
5. Black Guan
6. Great Tinamou
7. Highland Tinamou
8. Slaty-breasted Tinamou
9. Marbled Wood-Quail
10. Black-breasted Wood-Quail
11. Spotted Wood-Quail
12. Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail
13. Spotted-bellied Bobwhite
14. Crested Bobwhite
15. Tawny-faced Quail
16. Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge
17. Little Tinamou.
18. Thicket Tinamou
Plate 13: Vultures & Large Black Raptors
1. Zone-tailed Hawk
2. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
3. Turkey Vulture
4. Black Vulture
5. King Vulture
6. Common Black-Hawk
7. Great Black-Hawk
8. Solitary Eagle ...
9. Black Hawk-Eagle
NI . . Mangrove Black-Hawk
Plate 14: Black Raptors
1.Short-tailed Hawk
2. Zone-tailed Hawk (see plate 13)
3. Swainson's Hawk
4. Crane Hawk.
5. Bay-winged (Harris') Hawk
6. Snail Kite
7. White-tailed Hawk
8. Plumbeous Kite
9. Hook-billed Kite
10. Collared Forest Falcon
11. Red-throated Caracara
12. Crested Caracara Plate 15: Kites and Falcons 1. Black-shouldered Kite
2. American Swallow-tailed Kite
3. Mississippi Kite
4. Plumbeous Kite
5. Peregrine Falcon
6. Snail Kite
7. Northern Harrier
8. Laughing Falcon .
9. Yellow-headed Caracara
10. Aplomado Falcon
11. Orange-breasted Falcon
12. Pearl Kite
13. American Kestrel
14. Bat Falcon
15. Merlin
Plate 16: Hawks, Kites. & Forest Falcons
1. Double-toothed Kite
2. Tiny Hawk
3. Sharp-shinned Hawk
4. Cooper's Hawk
5. Barred Forest-Falcon
6. Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon .
7. Collared Forest-Falcon
8. Bicolored Hawk
9. Hook-billed Kite
10. Semiplumbeous Hawk
11. Short-tailed Hawk
12. Roadside Hawk
13. Broad-winged Hawk
14. Gray Hawk
Plate 17:Large Raptors
1. Black-chested(Barred) Hawk
2.White Hawk
3. Gray-headed Kite
4. Savanna Hawk
5. Black-collared Hawk
6. White-tailed Hawk
7. Swainson's Hawk
8. Red-tailed Hawk
9. Harpy Eagle
10. Crested Eagle
11. Ornate Hawk-Eagle
12. Black Hawk-Eagle
13. Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle
14. Osprey
Plate 18: Pigeons and Doves
1. Band-tailed Pigeon
2. Red-billed Pigeon
3. Pale-vented Pigeon
4.Scaled Pigeon
5. Short-billed Pigeon
6. Blue Ground-Dove
7.Ruddy Ground-Dove
8. Common Ground-Dove
9. Plain-breasted Ground-Dove
10. Maroon-chested Ground-Dove
11. Inca Dove
12. White-winged Dove
13. Mourning Dove
14. White-tipped Dove
15. Gray-fronted Dove
16. Gray-chested Dove
17. Ruddy Quail-Dove
18. Chiriqui Quail-Dove
19. Buff-fronted Quail-Dove
20. Violaceous Quail-Dove
21. Purplish-backed Quail-Dove
22. Olive-backed Quail-Dove
NI . Rock Dove
NI. Ruddy Pigeon
Plate 51. White-crowned Pigeon
Plate 19: Parrots
1. Scarlet Macaw
2.Great Green Macaw
3. Mealy Parrot
4.Red-lored Parrot
5. Yellow-naped Parrot
6. White-fronted Parrot
7. White-crowned Parrot
8. Blue-headed Parrot
9. Brown-hooded Parrot
10. Crimson-fronted Parakeet
11. Olive-throated Parakeet
12. Sulfur-winged Parakeet
13. Orange-fronted Parakeet
14. Orange-chinned Parakeet
15. Red-fronted Parakeet
16. Barred Parakeet
Plate 20: Owls & Potoos
1. Great Horned Owl
2.Striped Owl
3. Crested Owl
4. Great Potoo
5. Common Potoo
6. Mottled Owl
7. Black-and-white Owl
8. Spectacled Owl
9. Common Barn-Owl
10. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl
11. Pacific Screech-Owl
12. Vermiculated Screech-Owl
13. Unspotted Saw-whet Owl
14. Burrowing Owl
15. Tropical Screech-Owl
16. Least Pigmy-Owl
17. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
18. Andean Pygmy-Owl
NI Short-eared Owl
Plate 21: Cuckoos & Nightjars
1. Black-billed Cuckoo
2. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
3. Cocos Cuckoo
4. Mangrove Cuckoo
5. Striped Cuckoo
6. Pheasant Cuckoo
7. Squirrel Cuckoo
8. Smooth-billed Ani
9. Groove-billed Ani
10. Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo
11. Lesser Ground-Cuckoo
12. Lesser Nighthawk
13. Common Nighthawk
14. Short-tailed Nighthawk
15. Rufous Nightjar
16. Chuck-will's Widow
17. Whip-poor-will
18. Common Paraque
19. Dusky Nightjar
20. White-tailed Nightjar
NI Ocellated Poorwill
Plate 51 Oilbird
Plate 22: Swifts & Swallows
1. White-Collared Swift
2. Swift Black
3. Chestnut-Collared Swift
4. White-Chinned Swift
5. Spot-fronted Swift
6. Great Swallow-tailed Swift
7. Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
8. Chimney Swift
9. Vaux's Swift
10. Gray-Rumped Swift
11. Band-Rumped Swift
12. Barn Swallow
13. Cliff Swallow
14. Brown-chested Martin
15. Gray-breasted Martin
16. Purple Martin
17. Bank Swallow
18. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
19. Southern Rough-winged Swallow
20. Blue-and-white Swallow
21. Tree Swallow
22. Violet-green Swallow
23. Mangrove Swallow
Plate 51 Cave Swallow
Plate 23: Hummingbirds 1: Hermits & Large Species
1. Little Hermit
2. Long-tailed Hermit
3. Green Hermit
4. Bronzy Hermit
5. Band-tailed Barbthroat
6. Brown Violet-ear
7. Green Violet-ear
8. White-tipped Sicklebill
9. Violet Sabrewing
10. Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
11. Green-fronted Lancebill
12. Red-footed(Bronze-tailed) Plumeleteer
13. Green-breasted Mango
14. Purple-Crowned Fairy
15. Green-Crowned Brilliant
16. Magnificent Hummingbird
17. White-necked Jacobin
18. Long-billed Starthroat
19. Plain-Capped Starthroat
Plate 24: Hummerbirds 2: Medium Sized Species and Dark Males
1. White-bellied Emerald
2. Mangrove Hummingbird
3. Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
4. Crowned Woodnymph
5. White-bellied Mountain-gem
6. Gray-tailed Mountain-gem
7. Purple-throated Mountain-gem
8. Sapphire-throated Hummingbird
9. Blue-throated Goldentail
10. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
11. Cinnamon Hummingbird
12. Fiery-throated Hummingbird
13. Fork-tailed Emerald
14. Blue-Chested Hummingbird
15. Steely-vented Hummingbird
16. Blue-tailed Hummingbird
17. Striped-tailed Hummingbird
18. Beryl-crowned Hummingbird
19. White-tailed Emerald
20. Coppery-headed Emerald
21. Black-bellied Hummingbird
NI. Garden Emerald
NI. Indigo-Capped Hummingbird
NI. White-throated Mountain-gem
Plate 25:Hummingbirds 3: Small Species, Females
1. Green Thorntail
2. Magenta-throated Woodstar
3. Volcano Hummingbird
4. Rufous-Crested Coquette
5. White-Crested Coquette
6. Black-Crested Coquette
7. Scintillant Hummingbird
8. Snowcap
9. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
10. Fork-tailed Emerald
11. Violet-headed Hummingbird
12. Black-bellied Hummingbird
13. Sapphire-throated Hummingbird
14. Striped-tailed Hummingbird
15. Crowned Woodnymph
16. White-tailed Emerald
17. Coppery-headed Emerald
Plate 26:Trogons & Jacamars
1. Resplendent Quetzal
2. Slaty-tailed Trogon
3. Lattice-tailed Trogon
4. Orange-bellied Trogon
5. Collared Trogon
6. Baird's Trogon
7. Elegant Trogon
8. Violaceous Trogon
9. Black-throated Trogon
10. Black-headed Trogon
11. Great Jacamar
12. Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Plate 27: Kingfishers, Motmots, Large Woodpeckers &Toucans
1. Ringed Kingfisher
2. Belted Kingfisher
3. Green-and-Rufous Kingfisher
4. Amazon Kingfisher
5. Green Kingfisher
6. American Pygmy Kingfisher
7. Rufous Motmot
8. Blue-Crowned Motmot
9. Broad-billed Motmot
10.Keel-billed Motmot
11. Turquoise-browed Motmot
12.Tody Motmot
13. Lineated Woodpecker
14. Pale-billed Woodpecker
15. Collared Aracari
16. Fiery-billed Aracari
17.Emerald Toucanet
18. Keel-billed Toucan
19. Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
20. Yellow-eared Toucanet
Plate 28: Barbets, Puffbirds, & Woodpeckers
1. Prong-billed Barbet
2. Red-headed Barbet
3. White-necked Puffbird
4. White-fronted Nunbird
5. Lanceolated Monklet
6. White-whiskered Puffbird
7. Pied Puffbird
8. Chestnut-colored Woodpecker
9. Cinnamon Woodpecker
10. Rufous-winged Woodpecker
11. Golden-olive Woodpecker
12. Red-rumped Woodpecker
13. Smoky-brown Woodpecker
14. Black-cheeked Woodpecker
15. Acorn Woodpecker
16. Hoffmann's Woodpecker
17. Red-crowned Woodpecker
18. Golden-naped Woodpecker
19. Hairy Woodpecker
20. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Plate 29: Woodcreepers, Furnariids, & Piculet
1. Olivaceous Piculet
2. Streaked Xenops
3. Plain Xenops
4. Ruddy Treerunner
5. Spotted Barbtail
6.Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
7. Olivaceous Woodcreeper
8. Streaked-headed Woodcreeper
9. Spotted-crowned Woodcreeper
10. Long-tailed Woodcreeper
11. Plain-brown Woodcreeper
12. Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
13. Ruddy Woodcreeper
14. Brown-billed Scythebill
15. Black-banded Woodcreeper
16. Black-striped Woodcreeper
17. Buff-throated Woodcreeper
18. Strong-billed Woodcreeper
19. Barred Woodcreeper
20. Spotted Woodcreeper
21. Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
Plate 30: Furnariids & Terrestrial Antbirds
1. Buffy Tuftedcheek
2. Spectacled Foliage-gleaner
3. Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner
4. Striped(Woodhaunter)Foliage-gleaner
5. Ruddy Foliage-gleaner
6. Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner
7. Streaked-breasted Treehunter
8. Lineated Foliage-gleaner
9. Scaly-throated Leaftosser
10. Gray-throated Leaftosser
11. Tawny-throated Leaftosser
12. Red-faced Spinetail
13. Ochre-breasted Antipitta
14. Fulvous-bellied Antipitta
15. Black-faced Antthrush
16. Rufous-breasted Antthrush
17. Black-headed Antthrush
18. Spectacled Antipitta
19. Black-crowned Antipitta
20. Scaled Antipitta
21. Wing-banded Antbird
Plate 31: Antbirds
1. Fasciated Antshrike
2. Great Antshrike
3. Barred Antshrike
4. Russet Antshrike
5. Slaty Antshrike
6. Black-hooded Antshrike
7. Ocellated Antbird
8. Dusky Antbird
9. Bicolored Antbird
10. Immaculate Antbird
11. Chestnut-backed Antbird
12. Spotted Antbird
13. Bare-crowned Antbird
14. Dull-mantled Antbird
Plate 32: Antwrens, Spinetails, & Other Small Understory Birds
1. Dotted-winged Antwren
2. White-flanked Antwren
3. Slaty Antwren
4. Tawny-crowned Greenlet
5. Checker-throated Antwren
6. Plain Antvireo
7. Streaked-crowned Antvireo
8. Spotted-crowned Antvireo
9. Slaty Spinetail
10. Rufous-rumped Antwren
11. Pale-breasted Spinetail
12. Silvery-fronted Tapaculo
13. Zeledonia (Wrenthrush)
14. Tawny-faced Gnatwren
15. Long-billed Gnatwren
Plate 33: Manakins & Becards
1. White-collared Manakin
2. Orange-collared Manakin
3. Gray-headed Manakin
4. Long-tailed Manakin
5. Lance-tailed Manakin
6. Red-capped Manakin
7. Blue-crowned Manakin
8. White-crowned Manakin
9. White-ruffed Manakin
10. Thrushlike Manakin
11. Cinnamon Becard
12. Rose-throated Becard
13. White-winged Becard
14. Barred Becard
15. Black-and-white Becard
Plate 34: Tityras, Cotingas, Sharpbill, & Mourners)
1. Masked Tityra
2. Black-crowned Tityra
3. Yellow-billed Cotinga
4. Snowy Cotinga
5. Turquoise Cotinga
6. Lovely Cotinga
7. Sharpbill
8. Speckled Mourner
9. Rufous Mourner
10. Rufous Piha
11. Purple-throated Fruitcrow
12. Three-wattled Bellbird
13. Bare-necked Umbrellabird
Plate 35: Flycatchers 1: Medium & Large Species
1. Tropical Kingbird
2. Western Kingbird
3. Eastern Kingbird
4. Fork-tailed Flycatcher
5. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
6. Bright-rumped Attila
7. Gray Kingbird
8. Piratic Flycatcher
9. Golden-bellied Flycatcher
10. Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
11. Streaked Flycatcher
12. Boat-billed Flycatcher
13. Great Kiskadee
14. Social Flycatcher
15. Gray-capped Flycatcher
16. White-ringed Flycatcher
17. Great Crested Flycatcher
18. Brown-crested Flycatcher
19. Ash-throated Flycatcher
20. Panama Flycatcher
21. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
22. Nutting's Flycatcher
23. Royal Flycatcher
Plate 36: Flycatchers 2: Small Species, Salliers
1. Torrent Tyrannulet
2. Dark Pewee
3. Ochraceous Pewee
4. Olive-sided Flycatcher
5. Black Phoebe
6. Long-tailed Tyrant
7. Western Wood-Pewee
8. Eastern Wood-Pewee
9. Tropical Pewee
10. Tawny-chested Flycatcher
11. Tufted Flycatcher
12. Acadian Flycatcher
13. White-throated Flycatcher
14. Alder Flycatcher
15. Least Flycatcher
16. Black-capped Flycatcher
17. Bran-colored Flycatcher
18. Cocos Flycatcher
19. Yellowish Flycatcher
20. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
21. Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher
22. Black-tailed Flycatcher
23. Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
24. Olive-striped Flycatcher
25. Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
26. Slaty-capped Flycatcher
27. Sepia-capped Flycatcher
NI. Willow (Traill's) Flycatcher
Plate 37: Flycatchers 3: Elaenias, Tyrannulets, Flatbills,& Others
1. White-throated Spadebill
2. Stub-tailed Spadebill
3. Golden-crowned Spadebill
4. Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant
5. Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant
6. Northern Bentbill
7. Common Tody-Flycatcher
8. Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher
9. Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher
10. Mistletoe(Paltry) Tyrannulet
11. Yellow Tyrannulet
12. Rufous-browed Tyrannulet
13. Brown-capped Tyrannulet
14. Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
15.Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet
16.Yellow-olive Flycatcher
17. Yellow-margined Flycatcher
18. Zeledon's (Rough-legged) Tyrannulet
19. Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
20. Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
21. Greenish Elaenia
22. Scrub Flycatcher
23. Eye-ringed Flatbill
24. Mountain Elaenia
25. Lesser Elaenia
26. Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Plate 38: Wrens & Nightingale-Thrushes
1. Sedge Wren
2. Rufous-naped Wren
3. Banded-backed Wren
4. Rock Wren
5. Striped-breasted Wren
6. Banded Wren
7. Spotted-breasted Wren
8. Rufous-breasted Wren
9. Rufous-and-white Wren
10. Riverside Wren
11. Black-bellied Wren
12. Bay Wren
13. Black-throated Wren
14. Gray-breasted Wood-Wren
15. White-breasted Wood-Wren
16. Timberline Wren
17. Plain Wren
18. House Wren
19. Ochraceous Wren
20. Whistling(Scaly-breasted) Wren
21. Nightingale Wren
22. Song Wren
23. Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush
24. Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush
25. Black-headed Nightengale-Thrush
26. Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
27. Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush
Plate 39: Thrushes, Jays, Silky-flycatchers, Catbirds,& Dipper
1. Gray-cheeked Thrush
2. Swainson's Thrush
3. Veery
4. Wood Thrush
5. Pale-Vented Robin
6. Mountain Robin
7. Sooty Robin
8. Clay-colored Robin
9. White-throated Robin
10. Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher
11. American Dipper
12. Gray Catbird
13. Black-faced Solitaire
14. Cedar Waxwing
15. Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher
16. Silvery-throated Jay
17. Azure-hooded Magpie Jay
18. White-throated Magpie Jay
19. Brown Jay
20. Black-chested Jay
NI. American Robin
NI. Tropical Mockingbird
Plate 40: Vireos, Warblers, & Bananaquit
1. Green Shrike-Vireo
2. Rufous-browed Peppershrike
3. Red-eyed Vireo
4. Black-Whiskered Vireo
5. Yellow-green Vireo
6. Yellow-throated Vireo
7. Lesser Greenlet
8. Scrub Greenlet
9. Solitary Vireo
10. Yellow-winged Vireo
11. Mangrove Vireo
12. White-eyed Vireo
13. Warbling Vireo
14. Brown-capped Vireo
15. Philadelphia Vireo
16. Rufous-capped Warbler
17. Black-cheeked Warbler
18. Golden-crowned Warbler
19. Orange-crowned Warbler
20. Three-striped Warbler
21..Worm-eating Warbler
22. Tennessee Warbler
23. Buff-rumped Warbler
24. Bananaquit
Plate 41: Gnatcatchers & Warblers
1. White-lored Gnatcatcher
2. Tropical Gnatcatcher
3. Tropical Parula
4. Northern Parula
5. Golden-winged Warbler
6. Blue-winged Warbler
7. Flame-throated Warbler
8. Blackburnian Warbler
9. Bay-breasted Warbler
10. American Redstart
11. Blackpoll Warbler
12. Yellow-throated Warbler
13. Black-and-white Warbler
14. Pine Warbler
Plate 42: Warblers with Yellow Underparts& No Wing-Bars
1. Prothonotary Warbler
2. Yellow Warbler
3. Mangrove Warbler
4. Wilson's Warbler
5. Hooded Warbler
6. Collared Redstart
7. Slate-throated Redstart
8. Canada Warbler
9. Yellow-breasted Chat
10. Common Yellowthroat
11. Olive-crowned Yellowthroat
12. Masked(Chiriqui) Yellowthroat
13. Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
14. Mourning Warbler
15. Kentucky Warbler
16. MacGillivray's Warbler
Plate 52 Nashville Warbler
Plate 52 Connecticut Warbler
Plate 43: Warblers w/ Wing Bars and Streaks;Overbirds1. Black-throated Blue Warbler
2. Cerulean Warbler
3. Palm Warbler
4. Chestnut-sided Warbler
5. Prairie Warbler
6. Cape May Warbler
7. Hermit Warbler
8. Townsend's Warbler
9. Black-throated Green Warbler
10. Magnolia Warbler
11. Yellow-rumped Warbler
12. Ovenbird
13. Northern Waterthrush
14. Louisiana Waterthrush
Plate 44: Icterids (American Orioles and Blackbirds)
1. Spotted-breasted Oriole
2. Streaked-backed Oriole
3. Yellow-tailed Oriole
4. Yellow-headed Blackbird
5. Black-cowled Oriole
6. Orchard Oriole
7. Northern (Baltimore) Oriole
8. Montezuma Oropendola
9. Chestnut-headed Orependola
10. Giant Cowbird
11. Scarlet-rumped Cacique
12. Yellow-billed Cacique
13. Red-breasted Blackbird
14. Red-winged Blackbird
15. Bronzed Cowbird
16. Great-tailed Grackle
17. Nicaraguan Grackle
Plate52 Melodious Blackbird
Plate 45: Euphonias & Olive-Green Tanagers
1. Yellow-crowned Euphonia
2. Spotted-crowned Euphonia
3. Olive-backed Euphonia
4. Scrub Euphonia
5. Yellow-throated Euphonia
6. Tawny-capped Euphonia
7. White-vented Euphonia
8. Thick-billed Euphonia
9. Blue-hooded Euphonia
10. Golden-browed Chlorophonia
11. Blue-and-gold Tanager
12. Ashy-throated Bush-Tanager
13. Common Bush-Tanager
14. Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager
15. Sulphur-rumped Tanager
16. Olive Tanager
17. Gray-headed Tanager
18. Dusky-faced Tanager
19. Palm Tanager
Plate 46: Honeycreepers & Tanagers
1. Shining Honeycreeper
2. Red-legged Honeycreeper
3. Blue Dacnis
4. Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
5. Emerald Tanager
6. Silver-throated Tanager
7. Green Honeycreeper
8. Speckled Tanager
9. Bay-headed Tanager
10. Rufous-winged Tanager
11. Plain-colored Tanager
12. Spangled-cheeked Tanager
13. Golden-hooded(Masked) Tanager
14. Black-and-yellow Tanager
15. Blue-gray Tanager
16. White-lined Tanager
17. Tawny-crested Tanager
18. White-shouldered Tanager
NI. Yellow-winged Tanager
Plate 47: Larger Red or Yellow Tanagers
1. White-throated Shrike-Tanager
2. Western Tanager
3. Crimson-collared Tanager
4. Scarlet-rumped Tanager
5. Summer Tanager
6. Hepatic Tanager
7. White-winged Tanager
8. Scarlet Tanager
9. Flame-colored Tanager
10. Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
11. Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager
12. Red-throated Ant-Tanager
13. Rosy Thrush-Tanager
Plate 48 Grosbeaks, Buntings, and Larger Finches1. Black-headed Saltator
2. Buff-throated Saltator
3. Grayish Saltator
4. Streaked Saltator
5. Black-faced Grosbeak
6 . Slate-colored Grosbeak
7. Black-thighed Grosbeak
8. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
9. Black-headed Grosbeak
10. Blue-black Grosbeak
11. Blue Grosbeak
12. Indigo Bunting
13. Painted Bunting
14. Black-headed Brush-Finch
15. Yellow-throated Brush-Finch
16. Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch
17. Orange-billed Sparrow
18. Prevost's Ground-Sparrow
19. White-eared Ground-Sparrow
20. Large-footed Finch
21. Sooty-faced Finch
22. Yellow-thighed Finch
Plate 49: Seedeaters, Flowerpiercer, & Finches
1. Ruddy-breasted Seedeater
2. White-collared Seedeater
3. Variable Seedeater
4. Yellow-bellied Seedeater
5. Slate-colored Seedeater
6. Yellow-faced Grassquit
7. Blue-black Grassquit
8. Cocos Finch
9. Slaty Flowerpiercer
10. Thick-billed Seed-Finch
11. Blue Seedeater
12. Peg-billed Finch
13. Pink(Great)-billed Seed-Finch
14. Slaty Finch
Plate 50: Siskins, Sparrows, Meadowlark, & Others
1. Yellow-bellied Siskin
2. Lesser Goldfinch
3. Grassland Yellow-Finch
4. Rusty Sparrow
5. Botteri's Sparrow
6.Indigo Bunting (see plate48)
7. Striped-headed Sparrow
8. Grasshopper Sparrow
9. Chipping Sparrow
10. Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch
11. Volcano Junco
12. Lincoln's Sparrow
13. Rufous-collared Sparrow
14. Black-striped Sparrow
15. Olive Sparrow
16. Eastern Meadowlark
17. House Sparrow
18. Bobolink
19. Dickcissel
NI . . Savannah Sparrow
This checklist was developed from the website of Rara Avis and BXI Inc.
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