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

Plate 1: Large Seabirds

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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