Bocas del Toro Bird List

Bird List for Isla Colon, Soropta Peninsula and Canal, and vicinity of Almirante, Bocas del Toro, Panama

FAMILY	SPECIES	ITEC Sta.	I. Colon	Soropta	Bird Isl.	I. Cristob	I. Escudo	Almirante
SULIDAE	Brown Booby	x	x	x	x	x	x

PHAETHONTIDAE	Red-billed Tropicbird				x

PELICANIDAE	Brown Pelican	x	x	x	x	x	x	x

FREGATIDAE	Magnificent Frigatebird	x	x	x	x	x	x	x

PODICIPEDIDAE	Pied-billed Grebe		x	x
	Least Grebe			x

PHALACRO-COARACIDAE	Neotropic Comorant		x					x
	American Anhinga		x	x

ARDEIDAE	Great Egret	x	x	x			x	x
	Snowy Egret	x	x	x	x	x
	Great Blue Heron	x	x	x		x	x	x
	Little Blue Heron	x	x	x
	Tricolored Heron		x			x		x
	Cattle Egret	x	x	x
	Green Heron	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
	Yellow-crowned Night-Heron	x	x	x			x
	Least Bittern			x
	Rufescent Tiger Heron			x

THRESKIOR-NITHIDAE	Green Ibis	x	x	x				x
	Roseate Spoonbill			x
	Wood Stork							x

ANATIDAE	Black-bellied Whistling-duck			x
	Muscovy Duck	x	x
	American Wigeon			x
	Blue-winged Teal			x
						x		x
CATHARTIDAE	Black Vulture	x	x	x		x		x
	Turkey Vulture	x	x	x
	King Vulture	x	x	x

ACCIPITRIDAE	Osprey	x	x	x			x
	Double-toothed Kite	x	x	x
	Plumbeous Kite	x	x
	Common Black Hawk	x	x	x		x		x
	Roadside Hawk	x	x	x		x		x
	Broad-winged Hawk	x	x	x
	Swainson’s Hawk	x	x	x
	Barred Hawk	x	x
	Black-collared Hawk*			x
	White Hawk	x	x

FALCONIDAE	Laughing Falcon	x	x
	Peregrine Falcon	x	x		x		x
	Bat Falcon	x	x	x			x
	Yellow-headed Caracara							x
	Gray-headed Kite		x					x
	Swallow-tailed Kite							x
	Semiplumbeous Hawk		x
	Great Black Hawk							x

CRACIDAE	Crested Guan							x
	Gray-Headed Chachalaca							x

TINAMIDAE	Great Tinamou							x
	Little Tinamou							x

RECURVIO-STRIDAE	Black-necked stilt			x

RALLIDAE	White-throated Crake	x	x	x				x
	Grey-necked Wood-Rail	x	x	x
	Common Moorhen		x	x
	Purple Gallinule			x
	Sora			x
	American Coot		x	x

CHARADRIIDAE	Southern Lapwing	x	x

JACAIDAE	Northern Jacana	x	x	x				x

SCOLOPACIDAE	Spotted Sandpiper	x	x					x
	Semipalmated Plover		x
	Western Sandpiper		x
	Whimbrel	x	x
	Greater Yellowlegs		x
	Sollitary Sandpiper		x
	Wilson’s plover		x					x
	Willet		x
	Ruddy Turnstone		x

LARIDAE	Royal Tern	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
	Common Tern		x
	Black Tern				x
	Laughing Gull	x	x	x	x		x	x
	Herring Gull		x

STERCORARIIDAE	Parasitic Jaeger	x	x					x

COLUMBIDAE	Pale-vented Pigeon	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
	White-crowned Pigeon	x	x
	Short-billed Pigeon	x	x
	White-winged Dove*		x
	Ruddy Ground Dove		x					x
	Blue Ground Dove		x					x
	Rock Pigeon		x
	Scaled Pigeon							x
	Gray-headed Dove		x
	White-tipped Dove							x

PSITTACIDAE	Crimson-fronted Parakeet	x	x	x				x
	Blue-headed Parrot	x	x	x				x
	Red-lored Parrot	x	x	x			x	x
	Mealy Parrot	x	x	x
	Olive-throated Parakeet	x	x	x				x
	Brown-headed Parrot

CUCULIDAE	Mangrove Cuckoo	x	x
	Groove-billed Ani	x	x	x				x
	Squirrel Cuckoo		x					x
	Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo							x

STRIGIDAE	Mottled Owl	x	x
	Black and White Owl			x				x
	Spectacled Owl			x

CAPRIMULGIDAE	Common Pauraque	x	x	x
	Lesser Nighthawk	x	x

NYCTIBIIDAE	Greate Potoo	x	x
	Common Potoo	x	x

APODIDAE	White-collared Swift	x	x					x
	Chimney Swift	x	x

TROCHILIDAE	Bronzy Hermit	x	x	x
	Long-tailed Hermit	x	x
	Green-breasted Mango	x	x
	Rufous-tailed Hummingbird	x	x	x				x
	Violet-crowned Woodnymph	x	x
	White-necked Jacobin	x	x
	Escudo Hummingbird						x
	Rufous-Breasted Hummingbird							x
	Purple-crowned Hummingbird	x	x
	Violet-headed Hummingbird		x

TROGONIDAE	Slaty-Tailed Trogon			x				x
	Violaceous Trogon							x
	Black-throated Trogon			x

ALCEDINIDAE	Ringed Kingfisher	x	x	x			x
	Belted Kingfisher	x	x	x
	American Pygmy Kingfisher	x	x	x
	Green Kingfisher						x

RAMPHASTIDAE	Keel-billed Toucan	x	x	x		x		x
	Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
	Collared Aricari			x				x

BUCCONIDAE	White-necked Puffbird							x

PICIDAE	Black-cheeked Woodpecker	x	x	x				x
	Lineated Woodpecker	x	x	x				x
	Pale-billed Woodpecker					x
	Chestnut-colored Woodpecker	x

FURNARIIDAE	Streak-headed Woodcreeper							x
	Cocao Woodcreeper							x
	Buff-throated Foliage Gleaner							x
	Plain Xenops		x

THAMNOPHILIDAE	Dot-winged Antwren	x	x
	Chestnut-backed Antbird	x	x	x				x
	Spotted Antwren	x	x
	Slaty Antshrike		x
	White-flanked Antwren							x
	Checker-throated Antwren		x
	Dusky Antwren							x
	Fasciated Antshrike							x
	Western Slaty Antshrike							x
	Streak-chested Antpitta							x

TYRANNIDAE	Yellow-bellied Elaenia	x	x	x				x
	Panama Flycather	x	x	x				x
	Great Kiskadee	x	x	x				x
	Social Flycatcher	x	x	x
	Streaked Flycatcher	x	x
	Eastern Kingbird	x	x
	Common Tody Flycatcher							x
	Three-wattled Bellbird	x	x
	Tropical Pewee	x	x				x
	Western Wood-Pewee	x	x
	Black-headed Tody Flycatcher			x
	Dusky-capped Flycatcher		x
	Tropical Kingbird		x
	White-ringed Flycature		x
	Gray-capped Flycatcher							x
	Brown-capped Tyrannulet		x
	Yellow-margined Flycatcher							x
	Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher							x
	Boat-billed Flycatcher							x

TITYRIDAE	Black-crowned Tityra	x	x
	Masked Tityra	x	x
	Purple-throated Fruitcrow			x
	White-winged Becard		x

CORVIDAE	Brown Jay							x
	Black-chested Jay							x

PIPRIDAE	Golden-collared Manakin	x	x	x			x	x
	Red-capped Manakin	x	x
	White-collared Manakin							x

VIREONIDAE	Yellow-throated Vireo							x
	Lesser Greenlet							x

HIRUNDINDAE	Mangrove Swallow	x	x	x
	Cliff Swallow	x	x		x	x	x	x
	Barn Swallow	x	x	x
	N. Rough-winged Swallow	x	x
	Tree Swallow							x
	Gray-breasted Martin		x

TROGLODYTIDAE	House Wren	x	x	x
	Bay Wren		x				x
	White-breasted Woodwren							x

SYLVIIDAE	Tropical Gnatcatcher							x

TURDIDAE	Clay-colored Thrush	x	x					x
	Wood Thrush		x

MIMIDAE	Grey Catbird		x

PARULIDAE	Prothonotary Warbler	x	x	x				x
	Northern Waterthrush	x	x	x				x
	Yellow Warbler (mangrove)	x	x				x	x
	Tennessee Warbler	x	x
	Mourning Warbler	x	x				x	x
	Buff-rumped Warbler							x
	Chestnut-sided Warbler		x
	Yellow-rumped Warbler							x
	Bay-breasted Warbler							x
	Worm-eating Warbler		x
	Black and White Warbler		x
	Kentucky Warbler	x	x
	Canada Warbler							x
	Olive-crowned Yellowthroat			x

THRAUPIDAE	Passerini’s Tanager	x	x	x		x		x
	Blue-gray Tanager	x	x	x		x		x
	Palm Tanager	x	x	x		x		x
	Golden-hooded Tanager	x	x
	Blue Dacnis	x	x
	Shining Honeycreeper	x	x					x
	Bananaquit	x	x	x
	Buff-throated Saltator	x	x					x
	Grayish Saltator	x	x
	Tawny-crested Tanager	x	x					x
	White-lined Tanager
	Green Honeycreeper							x

EMBERIZIDAE	Blue-black Grassquit	x	x
	Variable Seedeater	x	x					x
	White-collared Seedeater	x	x
	Thick-billed Seed-finch	x	x
	Nicaraguan Seed-finch		x
	Orange-billed Sparrow							x
	Black-striped Sparrow		x

CARDINALIDAE	Summer Tanager	x	x
	Scarlet Tanager	x	x
	Rose-breasted Grosbeak	x	x

ICTERIDAE	Bronzed Cowbird	x	x	x
	Giant Cowbird		x
	Red-breasted Blackbird*	x	x
	Orchard Oriole	x	x
	Baltimore Oriole	x	x
	Black-cowled Oriole		x
	Yellow-tailed Oriole		x
	Montezuma Oropendola	x	x	x		x		x
	Scarlet-rumped Cacique
	Great-tailed Grackle	x	x					x

FRINGILLIDAE	Yellow-crowned Euphonia	x	x
	Olive-backed Euphonia							x

* Birds observed outside their known geographic range.

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