Northern Colombia Bird List

Among the roughly 400 species of birds seen in Northern Colombia along our route in June, the following have been recorded on past trips. As always, some are common, some not so common, and some rare and difficult to find.

  • Little tinamou

  • Northern screamer

  • Black-bellied whistling-duck

  • Fulvous whistling-duck

  • White-faced whistling-duck

  • White-cheeked pintail

  • Rufous-vented chachalaca

  • Chestnut-winged chachalaca

  • Band-tailed guan

  • Crested guan

  • Sickle-winged guan

  • Crested bobwhite

  • Black-fronted wood-quail

  • American flamingo

  • Wood stork

  • Capped heron

  • Fasciated Tiger-heron

  • White ibis

  • Scarlet ibis

  • Green ibis

  • Bare-faced ibis

  • Buff-necked ibis

  • Lesser yellow-headed vulture

  • King vulture

  • Pearl kite

  • Double-toothed kite

  • Snail Kite

  • Gray-headed kite

  • Hook-billed kite

  • Plumbeous kite

  • Crane hawk

  • Harris' hawk

  • Black-collared hawk

  • White-rumped hawk

  • Gray-lined hawk

  • Zone-tailed hawk

  • Long-winged harrier

  • Common black-hawk

  • Great black-hawk

  • Black hawk eagle

  • Ornate hawk eagle

  • Black-and-chestnut eagle

  • Laughing falcon

  • Bat falcon

  • Yellow-headed caracara

  • White-throated crake - Heard

  • Gray-cowled wood-rail

  • Wattled jacana

  • Double-striped thick-knee

  • Large-billed tern

  • Yellow-billed tern

  • Pale-vented pigeon

  • Bare-eyed pigeon

  • Scaled pigeon

  • Band-tailed pigeon

  • Blue ground dove

  • Ruddy ground dove

  • Scaled dove

  • White-tipped dove

  • Lined quail-dove

  • Military macaw

  • Blue-and-yellow macaw

  • Orange-chinned parakeet

  • Brown-throated parakeet

  • Blue-crowned parakeet

  • Scarlet-fronted parakeet

  • Green-rumped parrotlet

  • Turquoise-winged parrotlet

  • Santa Marta parakeet

  • Blue-headed parrot

  • Red-billed parrot

  • Orange-winged parrot

  • Scaly-naped parrot

  • Dwarf cuckoo

  • Gray-capped cuckoo

  • Dark-billed cuckoo

  • Squirrel cuckoo

  • Striped cuckoo

  • Groove-billed ani

  • Smooth-billed ani

  • Greater ani

  • Black-and-white owl

  • Mottled owl

  • Santa Marta screech-owl

  • Ferruginous pygmy-owl

  • Stygian owl

  • Common potoo

  • White-collared swift

  • Chestnut-collared swift

  • Lesser swallow-tailed swift

  • Stripe-throated hermit

  • Long-billed hermit

  • Rufous-breasted hermit

  • Pale-bellied hermit

  • White-necked jacobin

  • Black-throated mango

  • Santa Marta blossomcrown

  • White-tailed starfrontlet

  • Santa Marta woodstar

  • Steely-vented hummingbird

  • Ruby topaz hummingbird

  • Crowned woodnymph

  • Lazuline sabrewing

  • Mountain velvetbreast

  • Violet-bellied hummingbird

  • Rufous-tailed hummingbird

  • Buffy hummingbird

  • Brown violetear

  • Lesser (green) violetear

  • Sparkling violetear

  • White-vented plumeleteer

  • Sapphire-throated hummingbird

  • White-chinned sapphire

  • Coppery emerald

  • Red-billed emerald

  • Masked trogon

  • Gartered (Violaceous) trogon

  • White-tipped quetzal

  • Whooping motmot

  • Ringed kingfisher

  • Amazon kingfisher

  • Green kingfisher

  • Russet-throated puffbird

  • Moustached puffbird

  • Rufous-tailed jacamar

  • Collared aracari

  • Keel-billed toucan

  • Southern emerald toucanet

  • Groove-billed toucanet

  • Scaled piculet

  • Chestnut piculet

  • Red-crowned woodpecker

  • Golden-olive woodpecker

  • Smoky-brown woodpecker

  • Spot-breasted woodpecker

  • Golden-green woodpecker

  • Crimson-crested woodpecker

  • Lineated woodpecker

  • Gray-throated leaftosser

  • Plain xenops

  • Plain-brown woodcreeper

  • Black-banded woodcreeper

  • Cocoa woodcreeper

  • Strong-billed woodcreeper

  • Streak-headed woodcreeper

  • Straight-billed woodcreeper

  • Montane woodcreeper

  • Spotted barbtail

  • Caribbean hornero

  • Pale-breasted spinetail

  • Rusty-headed spinetail

  • White-whiskered spinetail

  • Streak-capped spinetail

  • Yellow-chinned spinetail

  • Flammulated treehunter

  • Montane foliage-gleaner

  • Santa Marta foliage-gleaner

  • Barred antshrike

  • Black-crested antshrike

  • Black-crowned (western slaty) antshrike

  • Slaty antwren

  • Northern white-fringed antwren

  • White-bellied antbird

  • Santa Marta antbird

  • Sierra Nevada (rufous) antpitta

  • Santa Marta antpitta

  • Rusty-breasted antpitta

  • Santa Marta tapaculo

  • Brown-rumped tapaculo

  • Brown-capped tyrannulet

  • Southern beardless tyrannulet

  • White-throated tyrannulet

  • Mouse-colored tyrannulet

  • Yellow-crowned tyrannulet

  • Sooty-headed tyrannulet

  • Black-capped tyrannulet

  • Forest elaenia

  • Greenish elaenia

  • Mountain elaenia

  • Yellow-bellied elaenia

  • Lesser elaenia

  • Spectacled (Venezuelan) Tyrannulet

  • Olive-striped flycatcher

  • Ochre-bellied flycatcher

  • Coopman's (golden-faced) tyrannulet

  • Northern scrub-flycatcher

  • Slender billed tyrannulet

  • Pale-eyed pygmy-tyrant

  • Black-throated tody-tyrant

  • Southern bentbill

  • Pearly-vented tody-tyrant

  • Common tody-flycatcher

  • Black-headed tody-flycatcher

  • Yellow-olive flatbill (flycatcher)

  • Ochre-lored (yellow-breasted) flatbill

  • Cinnamon flycatcher

  • Sepia-capped flycatcher

  • White-throated spadebill

  • Western olivaceous flatbill

  • Ruddy-tailed flycatcher

  • Fuscous flycatcher

  • Bran-colored flycatcher

  • White-headed marsh-tyrant

  • Pied water-tyrant

  • Northern tropical pewee

  • Santa Marta bush-tyrant

  • Streak-throated bush-tyrant

  • Cattle tyrant

  • Bright-rumped attila

  • Brown-crested flycatcher

  • Panama flycatcher

  • Great kiskadee

  • Lesser kiskadee

  • Boat-billed flycatcher

  • Social flycatcher

  • Rusty-margined flycatcher

  • Golden-bellied flycatcher

  • Piratic flycatcher

  • Streaked flycatcher

  • Crowned slaty flycatcher

  • Tropical kingbird

  • Gray kingbird

  • Fork-tailed flycatcher

  • Masked tityra

  • Golden-breasted fruiteater

  • White-bearded manakin

  • Lance-tailed manakin

  • Golden-headed manakin

  • Cinnamon becard

  • Cinereous becard

  • White-winged becard

  • One-colored becard

  • Brown-capped vireo

  • Chivi (red-eyed) vireo

  • Scrub greenlet

  • Golden-fronted greenlet

  • Black-chested jay

  • Gray-breasted mart

  • Brown-chested martin

  • Southern rough-winged swallow

  • Blue-and-white swallow

  • White-winged swallow

  • Stripe-backed wren

  • Bicolored wren

  • Rufous-breasted wren

  • Rufous-and-white wren

  • Buff-breasted wren

  • Gray-breasted wood-wren

  • Hermit wood-wren

  • Tropical gnatcatcher

  • Orange-billed nightingale-thrush

  • Slaty-backed nightingale-thrush

  • Clay-colored thrush

  • Pale-breasted thrush

  • White-throated thrush

  • Yellow-legged thrush

  • Black-hooded thrush

  • Tropical mockingbird

  • Slate-throated whitestart

  • Yellow-crowned whitestart

  • Chestnut-capped warbler

  • Golden-crowned warbler

  • White-lored warbler

  • Santa Marta warbler

  • Bananaquit

  • Plushcap

  • Black-headed tanager

  • Bay-headed tanager

  • Black-capped tanager

  • Black-cheeked (Santa Marta) mountain-tanager

  • Gray-headed tanager

  • White-shouldered tanager

  • White-lined tanager

  • Crimson-backed tanager

  • Blue-gray tanager

  • Palm tanager

  • Glaucous tanager

  • Swallow tanager

  • Fulvous-headed tanager

  • Blue dacnis

  • Red-legged honeycreeper

  • Purple honeycreeper

  • White-sided flowerpiercer

  • Rusty flowerpiercer

  • Blue-black grassquit

  • Gray seedeater

  • Yellow-bellied seedeater

  • Lesson's seedeater

  • Black-faced grassquit

  • Sooty grassquit

  • Santa Marta brushfinch

  • Sierra Nevada brushfinch

  • Golden-winged sparrow

  • Black-striped sparrow

  • Tocuyo sparrow

  • Rosy-thrush tanager

  • Buff-throated saltator

  • Streaked saltator

  • Orinocan saltator

  • Golden grosbeak

  • Blue-black grosbeak

  • Giant cowbird

  • Yellow oriole

  • Yellow-backed oriole

  • Yellow-tailed oriole

  • Orange-crowned oriole

  • Carib grackle

  • Yellow-hooded blackbird

  • Crested oropendula

  • Trinidad euphonia

  • Thick-billed euphonia

  • Blue-naped chlorophonia