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