Birds of Trinidad and Tobago a listing of the neo-tropical bird families

Birds Listing

The diversity of bird life that is so easily found in Trinidad and Tobago ensures that bird watching is a rewarding pastime. In addition to the many resident tropical birds, these two Caribbean islands receive numerous winter migrant birds from North America, Europe and the Arctic regions plus South American migrant birds from the austral winter.

Below is a listing of the 332 bird species that will be found in Discovering the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago. You can view samples of the bird photographs and descriptions from the bird identification guide by clicking on the links. The Sample Bird Photographs page also provides direct links to the bird images.

Bird Listing

Antbirds

	Barred Antshrike - Male & Female
	Great Antshrike - Female
	White-flanked Antwren
	White-fringed Antwren
	Plain Antvireo

Ani

Smooth billed ani

Anhinga

Avocet

American Avocet

Bananaquit

Barn Owls

Barn Owl

Bellbird

Bearded Bellbird

Booby

	Brown Booby
	Masked Booby
	Red-footed Booby

Chachalaca

Rufous-vented Chachalaca

Cormorant

Olivaceous Cormorant

Cuckoo

	Striped Cuckoo
	Little Cuckoo
	Squirrel Cuckoo
	Mangrove Cuckoo
	Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Ducks

	Black bellied whistling duck
	Fulvous whistling duck
	White cheeked pintail duck
	Northern Pintail
	Wild Muscovy Duck
	Mallard
	Green-winged Teal
	Blue-winged Teal
	American Wigeon
	Northern Shoveler
	Ring-necked Duck
	Masked Duck
	Lesser Scaup

Dove

	Common Ground Dove
	Ruddy Ground Dove
	Eared Dove

	Plain Breasted Ground Dove
	White-tipped Dove

	Zenaida Dove
	Gray-fronted Dove

Falcons

	Peregrine Falcon
	American Kestrel
	Yellow Headed Caracara
	Crested Caracara
	Bat Falcon
	Aplomado Falcon
	Merlin

Flamingo

Greater Flamingo

Flycatchers

	Fork Tailed Flycatcher
	Pied Water Tyrant
	White Headed Marsh Tyrant
	Greater Kiskadee
	Boat-billed Flycatcher
	Tropical Kingbird
	Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
	Brown Crested Flycatcher
	Fuscous Flycatcher
	Olive Sided Flycatcher
	Yellow-olive Flycatcher

Swainson’s Flycatcher

	Venezuelan Flycatcher
	Euler's Flycatcher
	Variegated Flycatcher
	Gray Kingbird
	Streaked Flycatcher

Piratic Flycatcher

	Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
	Northern Scrub Flycatcher
	Tropical Pewee
	White-throated Spadebill
	White-winged Becard

	Yellow-bellied Eleania
	Lesser Eleania
	Small-billed Eleania

Frigatebirds

Magnificent Frigatebird

Finches & Seedeaters

	Red Capped Cardinal
	Gray Seedeater

	Slate-coloured Seedeater - Female
	Saffron Finch
	Yellow-bellied Seedeater
	Variable Seedeater

Gallinules

Purple Gallinule

Common Moorhen

Grebe

	Least Grebe
	Pied-billed Grebe

Greenlet

	Scrub Greenlet
	Golden Fronted Greenlet

Gull

	Laughing Gull
	Ring-billed Gull
	Black-headed Gull
	Herring Gull
	Lesser Black-backed Gull

Guan

Piping Guan

Hawk

Savannah Hawk

	Common Black Hawk
	White Hawk
	White-tailed Hawk
	Gray Hawk
	Broad-winged Hawk
	Rufous Crab-Hawk
	Black-collared Hawk
	Great Black Hawk
	Ornate Hawk-Eagle
	Crane Hawk
	Swainson's Hawk

Herons

	Black Crowned Night Heron
	Yellow Crowned Night Heron
	Boat Billed Heron
	Little Blue Heron
	Tri-Coloured Heron
	Cattle egret
	Snowy Egret
	Great Egret
	Green Heron
	Striated Heron
	Great Blue Heron
	Rufescent Tiger-Heron
	Reddish Egret
	Agami Heron
	Least Bittern
	White-necked Heron
	Western Reef-Heron

Honeycreepers

	Green Honeycreeper – Male & Female
	Purple Honeycreeper – Male & Female
	Red Legged Honeycreeper

Hummingbird

	Blue Tailed Emerald
	Copper Rumped
	White Chested Emerald
	Ruby Topaz Hummingbird
	White-necked Jacobin
	Blue Chinned Sapphire
	White-tailed Sabrewing
	Tufted Coquette
	Green Hermit
	Black-throated Mango
	Green-throated Mango
	Rufous-breasted Hermit
	Brown Violetear

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Ibis

	Scarlet Ibis
	White Ibis
	Glossy Ibis
	Roseate Spoonbill

Jacana

Wattled Jacana

Jacamar

Rufous Tailed Jacamar

Kingfishers

	American Pigmy Kingfisher
	Green Kingfisher
	Ringed Kingfisher
	Amazon Kingfisher
	Belted Kingfisher

Kite

	Grey Headed Kite
	Double Toothed Kite
	Swallow-tailed Kite
	Hook-billed Kite
	Black-shouldered Kite
	White-tailed Kite
	Pearl Kite

Limpkin

Motmot

Blue Crowned Motmot

Macaw

	Blue Gold Macaw
	Red-bellied Macaw
	Red and Green Macaw
	Scarlet Macaw

Manakins

	White Bearded Manakin
	Golden Headed Manakin
	Blue-backed Manakin

Mockingbird

Tropical Mockingbird

Nightjar

	White-tailed Nightjar
	Pauraque
	Common Night Hawk

Osprey

Orioles

	Carib Grackle
	Crested Oropendola
	Yellow Hooded Blackbird – Male & Female
	Yellow Rumped Cacique
	Yellow Oriole
	Baltimore Oriole

	Red Breasted Blackbird – Male & Female
	Red-winged Blackbird
	Shiny Cowbird - Male & Female
	Bobolink

Ovenbirds

	Yellow Chinned Spinetail
	Pale-breasted Spinetail
	Streaked Xenops
	Grey-throated Leaftosser

Owls

	Spectacled Owl
	Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
	Burrowing Owl

Oilbird

Oystercatcher

American Oystercatcher

Parrots

	Green Rumped Parrotlet
	Lilac Tailed Parrotlet
	Orange Winged Parrot
	Yellow-crowned Parrot
	Blue-headed Parrot

Pelican

Brown Pelican

Peppershrike

Rufous-Browed Peppershrike

Pigeons

	Pale Vented Pigeon
	Rock Pigeon
	Scaly-naped Pigeon
	Scaled Pigeon

Plover

Black Bellied Plover

	Southern Lapwing
	Collared Plover
	Semipalmated Plover
	Snowy Plover
	Piping Plover
	Wilsons Plover
	Killdeer
	Ringed Plover
	American Golden Plover

Potoo

Common Potoo

Grassquit

	Blue Black Grassquit – Male & Female
	Black faced Grassquit – Male & Female

Rails

	Gray Necked Woodrail
	Clapper Rail
	Sora
	American Coot

Saltator

	Grayish Saltator
	Streaked Saltator

Sandpipers

	Semipalmated Sandpiper
	Spotted Sandpiper
	Solitary Sandpiper
	White-rumped Sandpiper
	Western Sandpiper
	Least Sandpiper
	Wood Sandpiper
	Upland Sandpiper
	Pectoral Sandpiper
	Stilt Sandpiper
	Baird's Sandpiper
	Sanderling
	Ruddy Turnstone
	Lesser Yellow Legs
	Greater Yellow Legs
	Whimbrel

	Willet
	Hudsonian Godwit
	Marbled Godwit

	Common Snipe
	Wilson's Phalarope
	Short-billed Dowitcher
	Ruff
	Red Knot
	Spotted Redshank

Shearwaters

	Manx Shearwater
	Sooty Shearwater
	Greater Shearwater
	Audubon's Shearwater

Skimmers

Black Skimmer

Skua

South Polar Skua

Stilt

Black necked Stilt

Stork

	Jabiru Stork
	Maguari Stork
	Wood Stork

Swallows

	Southern Rough Winged
	White Winged Swallow
	Caribbean Martin
	Bank Swallow
	Barn Swallow
	Blue and White Swallow
	Gray-breasted Martin

Swallow Tanager

Tanager

	Blue Grey Tanager
	Palm Tanager
	Silver Beaked Tanager

White Lined Tanager – Male & Female

	Red-crowned Ant Tanager
	Bay-headed Tanager
	Turquoise Tanager
	Hepatic Tanager
	Summer Tanager
	Blue-capped Tanager
	Violaceous Euphonia
	Blue Dacnis

Terns

	Yellow Billed Tern
	Large Billed Tern
	Brown Noddy
	Royal Tern
	Least Tern
	Caspian Tern
	Sandwich Tern
	Common Tern
	Gull-billed Tern

Thrushes

	Bare Eyed Thrush
	Cocoa Thrush
	Gray-cheeked Thrush
	Veery

Toucan

Channel Billed Toucan

Trogons

	White Tailed Trogon
	Violaceous Trogon
	Collared Trogon

Tropicbird

Red-billed Tropicbird

Vireos

	Golden Fronted Greenlet
	Scrub Greenlet
	Red-eyed Vireo

Vulture

Black Vulture

	Turkey Vulture
	Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Warblers

	Northern Waterthrush
	Yellow Warbler
	Yellow-rumped Warbler
	Black and White Warbler
	Magnolia Warbler
	Hooded Warbler
	Blackpoll Warbler
	Cape May Warbler
	Prothonotary Warbler
	Bay-breasted Warbler
	Blackburnian Warbler
	Black-throated Green Warbler
	Chestnut-sided Warbler

	Golden-crowned Warbler
	Tropical Parula
	Northern Parula
	Copmmon Yellowthroat
	Masked Yellowthroat
	American Redstart

Woodpeckers

	Red Crowned Woodpecker
	Red-rumped Woodpecker
	Lineated Woodpecker
	Chestnut Woodpecker
	Crimson-crested Woodpecker
	Golden-olive Woodpecker

Woodcreeper

	Cocoa Woodcreeper
	Plain Brown Woodcreeper
	Straight-billed Wood