Chiapas Bird List

Among the approximately 350 species of birds possible on this trip are the following which have been seen or heard on past trips. As usual, some are common, some less common, and some fairly rare.

  • Great tinamou

  • Little tinamou

  • Slaty-breasted tinamou

  • Anhinga

  • Bare-throated tiger-heron

  • Pinnated bittern

  • Boat-billed heron

  • Roseate spoonbill

  • Wood stork

  • Lesser yellow-headed vulture

  • King vulture

  • Fulvous-whistling duck

  • Black-bellied whistling duck

  • Muscovy duck

  • Hook-billed kite

  • Snail kite

  • Crane hawk

  • White hawk

  • Great black hawk

  • Common black hawk

  • Roadside hawk

  • Short-tailed hawk

  • Black hawk-eagle

  • Ornate hawk-eagle

  • Laughing falcon

  • Bat falcon

  • Aplomado falcon

  • Plain chachalaca

  • Crested guan

  • Spotted wood-quail

  • Gray-necked wood-rail

  • Limpkin

  • Northern jacana

  • Double-striped thick-knee

  • Pale-vented pigeon

  • Short-billed pigeon

  • Red-billed pigeon

  • Scaled pigeon

  • Blue ground-dove

  • White-tipped dove

  • Gray-chested dove

  • Scarlet macaw

  • Olive-throated parakeet

  • Green parakeet

  • White-crowned parrot

  • White-fronted parrot

  • Mealy parrot

  • Red-lored parrot

  • Brown-hooded parrot

  • Squirrel cuckoo

  • Groove-billed ani

  • Mottled owl

  • Ferruginous pygmy owl

  • Common pauraque

  • White-collared swift

  • Lesser swallow-tailed swift

  • Long-billed hermit

  • Stripe-throated hermit

  • Wedge-tailed sabrewing

  • Violet sabrewing

  • Scaly-breasted hummingbird

  • Green-breasted mango

  • White-bellied emerald

  • White-necked jacobin

  • Black-crested coquette

  • White-eared hummingbird

  • Azure-crowned hummingbird

  • Rufous-tailed hummingbird

  • Buff-bellied hummingbird

  • Amethyst-throated hummingbird

  • Garnet-throated hummingbird

  • Purple-crowned fairy

  • Ruby-throated hummingbird

  • Slender sheartail

  • Black-headed trogon

  • Gartered (Violaceous) trogon

  • Slaty-tailed trogon

  • Collared trogon

  • Mountain trogon

  • Blue-diademed (Blue-crowned) motmot

  • Ringed kingfisher

  • Amazon kingfisher

  • Green kingfisher

  • American pygmy kingfisher

  • White-whiskered puffbird

  • Rufous-tailed jacamar

  • Collared aracari

  • Keel-billed toucan

  • Black-cheeked woodpecker

  • Golden-fronted woodpecker

  • Smoky-brown woodpecker

  • Golden-olive woodpecker

  • Chestnut-colored woodpecker

  • Lineated woodpecker

  • Pale-billed woodpecker

  • Rufous-breasted spinetail

  • Plain xenops

  • Tawny-winged woodcreeper

  • Ruddy woodcreeper

  • Olivaceous woodcreeper

  • Wedge-billed woodcreeper

  • Northern barred-woodcreeper

  • Ivory-billed woodcreeper

  • Streak-headed woodcreeper

  • Buff-throated foliage-gleaner

  • Barred antshrike

  • Great antshrike

  • Slaty antwren

  • Dot-winged antwren

  • Dusky antbird

  • Plain antvireo

  • Black-faced antthrush

  • Scaled antpitta

  • Greenish elaenia

  • Yellow-bellied elaenia

  • Ochre-bellied flycatcher

  • Northern bentbill

  • Common tody-flycatcher

  • Slate-headed tody-flycatcher

  • Eye-ringed flatbill

  • Yellow-olive flycatcher

  • Sepia-capped flycatcher

  • Stub-tailed spadebill

  • Royal flycatcher

  • Sulphur-rumped flycatcher

  • Ruddy-tailed flycatcher

  • Yellow-bellied tyrannulet

  • Yellow-bellied flycatcher

  • Pine flycatcher

  • Least flycatcher

  • Belted flycatcher

  • Tropical pewee

  • Bright-rumped attila

  • Rufous mourner

  • Great kiskadee

  • Boat-billed flycatcher

  • Social flycatcher

  • Tropical kingbird

  • Couch's kingbird

  • Fork-tailed flycatcher

  • Rufous piha

  • Thrushlike schiffornis

  • Masked tityra

  • Black-crowned tityra

  • Cinnamon becard

  • Rose-throated becard

  • White-collared manakin

  • Red-capped manakin

  • White-eyed vireo

  • Yellow-throated vireo

  • Blue-headed vireo

  • Philadelphia vireo

  • Lesser greenlet

  • Tawny-crowned greenlet

  • Rufous-browed peppershrike

  • Green shrike-vireo

  • Green jay

  • Brown jay

  • White-throated magpie-jay

  • Mangrove swallow

  • Black-capped swallow

  • Gray-breasted martin

  • Band-backed wren

  • Spot-breasted wren

  • Rufous-browed wren

  • Banded wren

  • Spot-breasted wren

  • White-breasted wood-wren

  • Gray-breasted wood-wren

  • White-bellied wren

  • Long-billed gnatwren

  • Brown-backed solitaire

  • Ruddy-capped nightingale-thrush

  • Orange-billed nightingale-thrush

  • Wood thrush

  • Clay-colored robin

  • White-throated robin

  • Rufous-collared robin

  • Gray silky-flycatcher

  • Tropical mockingbird

  • Blue-and-white mockingbird

  • Olive warbler

  • Blue-winged warbler

  • Golden-winged warbler

  • Northern parula

  • Crescent-chested warbler

  • Chestnut-sided warbler

  • American redstart

  • Magnolia warbler

  • Black-throated green warbler

  • Golden-cheeked warbler

  • Black-and-white warbler

  • Worm-eating warbler

  • Ovenbird

  • Kentucky warbler

  • Gray-crowned yellowthroat

  • Hooded warbler

  • Red-faced warbler

  • Pink-headed warbler

  • Slate-throated warbler

  • Golden-crowned warbler

  • Golden-browed warbler

  • Rufous-capped warbler

  • Gray-headed tanager

  • Black-throated shrike-tanager

  • Crimson-collared tanager

  • Passerini’s tanager

  • Blue-gray tanager

  • Yellow-winged tanager

  • Golden-hooded tanager

  • Red-legged honeycreeper

  • Green honeycreeper

  • Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer

  • Blue-black grassquit

  • White-collared seedeater

  • Thick-billed seed-finch

  • Yellow-faced grassquit

  • Orange-billed sparrow

  • Green-backed sparrow

  • Rufous-collared sparrow

  • Chestnut-capped brush-finch

  • White-naped brush-finch

  • Grayish saltator

  • Buff-throated saltator

  • Black-headed saltator

  • Red-crowned ant-tanager

  • Red-throated ant-tanager

  • Flame-colored tanager

  • Black-faced grosbeak

  • Rose-breasted grosbeak

  • Indigo bunting

  • Melodious blackbird

  • Giant cowbird

  • Black-cowled oriole

  • Orchard oriole

  • Hooded oriole

  • Streak-backed oriole

  • Yellow-backed oriole

  • Yellow-tailed oriole

  • Baltimore oriole

  • Yellow-billed cacique

  • Montezuma oropendola

  • Chestnut-headed oropendula

  • Yellow-throated euphonia

  • Olive-backed euphonia

  • Scrub euphonia

  • Black-headed siskin

  • Hooded grosbeak