Oaxaca Bird List
On past trips to Oaxaca, we've collectively seen over 400 species of birds, including the following. As always, some are common, some not so common, and some rare and/or difficult to find. This list covers the areas visited on our main route - the Oaxaca Valley, the adjacent mountains, and the Pacific slope and coast - with an additional section for some of the 70-90 additional species that can be found on the Gulf Slope extension.
Common loon
Least grebe
Red-billed tropicbird
Cocos booby
Neotropic cormorant
Magnificent frigatebird
Anhinga
Reddish egret
Tricolored heron
Boat-billed heron
Bare-throated tiger-heron
Least bittern
White ibis
White-faced ibis
Roseate spoonbill
Wood stork
Osprey
White-tailed kite
Double-toothed kite
Common black hawk
Great black hawk
Gray hawk
Roadside hawk
Broad-winged hawk
White-tailed hawk
Short-tailed hawk
Zone-tailed hawk
Crane hawk
Black hawk-eagle
Crested caracara
Laughing falcon
Aplomado falcon
Bat falcon
Black-bellied whistling-duck
Fulvous whistling-duck
Wood duck
Muscovy duck
Redhead
Lesser scaup
Ring-necked duck
Red-breasted merganser
West Mexican chachalaca
Long-tailed wood-partridge
Montezuma quail
Russet-naped (Gray-necked) wood-rail
Collared plover
Wilson's plover
Snowy plover
Pink-footed shearwater
Royal tern
Sandwich tern
Caspian tern
Elegant tern
Gull-billed tern
Black tern
Laughing gull
Yellow-footed gull
Red-billed pigeon
Band-tailed pigeon
White-tipped dove
Ruddy ground dove
Yellow-headed parrot
White-fronted parrot
Orange-fronted parakeet
Mangrove cuckoo
Squirrel cuckoo
Lesser ground-cuckoo
Groove-billed ani
Lesser roadrunner
Colima pygmy-owl
Mountain pygmy-owl
Ferruginous pygmy-owl
Burrowing owl
Mottled owl
Chestnut-collared swift
White-collared swift
Mexican hermit
Mexican violet-ear
Turquoise-crowned hummingbird
Golden-crowned emerald
Sparkling-tailed woodstar
Dusky hummingbird
Cinnamon hummingbird
White-eared hummingbird
Berylline hummingbird
Green-fronted hummingbird
Blue-capped hummingbird
Bumblebee hummingbird
Amethyst-throated mountain-gem
Garnet-throated hummingbird
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Plain-capped starthroat
Long-billed starthroat
Mountain trogon
Citreoline trogon
Elegant trogon
Collared trogon
Russet-crowned motmot
Amazon kingfisher
Green kingfisher
Ringed kingfisher
Northern emerald toucanet
Golden-cheeked woodpecker
Gray-breasted woodpecker
Gray-crowned woodpecker
Lineated woodpecker
Pale-billed woodpecker
Ivory-billed woodcreeper
Spot-crowned woodcreeper
Olivaceous woodcreeper
White-striped woodcreeper
Strong-billed woodcreeper
Rose-throated becard
Gray-collared becard
Masked tityra
Northern beardless tyrannulet
Greenish elaenia
Eye-ringed flatbill
Least flycatcher
Pine flycatcher
Willow flycatcher
Gray flycatcher
Hammond's flycatcher
Pacific-slope flycatcher
Cordilleran flycatcher
Pileated flycatcher
Nutting’s flycatcher
Flammulated flycatcher
Tufted flycatcher
Bright-rumped attila
Tropical kingbird
Thick-billed kingbird
Scissor-tailed flycatcher
Social flycatcher
Great kiskadee
Boat-billed flycatcher
Golden vireo
Slaty vireo
Dwarf vireo
Mangrove vireo
Blue-headed vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Chestnut-sided shrike-vireo
Mangrove swallow
Gray-breasted martin
White-throated magpie jay
Green jay
Dwarf jay
Mexican chickadee
Rufous-naped wren
Boucard's wren
Gray-barred wren
Banded wren
Happy wren
Gray-breasted wood-wren
White-lored gnatcatcher
Gray catbird
Blue mockingbird
Ocellated thrasher
Brown-backed solitaire
Russet nightingale-thrush
White-throated thrush
Rufous-backed robin
Aztec thrush
Gray silky flycatcher
Worm-eating warbler
Tennessee warbler
Crescent-chested warbler
Hooded yellowthroat
Painted redstart
Slate-throated redstart
Red warbler
Red-faced warbler
Fan-tailed warbler
Black-and-white warbler
Golden-browed warbler
Rufous-capped warbler
Golden-crowned warbler
Red-breasted chat
Yellow-winged cacique
Streak-backed oriole
Black-backed oriole
Altamira oriole
Audubon's oriole
Black-vented oriole
Spot-breasted oriole
Scott's oriole
Melodious blackbird
Red-headed tanager
Flame-colored tanager
Hepatic tanager
Cinnamon-bellied saltator
Black-headed saltator
Orange-breasted bunting
Painted bunting
Blue bunting
Indigo bunting
Blue-gray Tanager
Blue-black grassquit
Ruddy-breasted seedeater
Cinnamon-rumped (White-collared) seedeater
Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer
Bridled sparrow
Oaxaca sparrow
Clay-colored sparrow
Grasshopper sparrow
Botteri's sparrow
Rusty sparrow
Rufous-capped brushfinch
Chestnut-capped brushfinch
Olive sparrow
Collared towhee
White-throated towhee
Common chlorospingus
Black-headed siskin
Evening grosbeak
Scrub euphonia
Elegant euphonia
Species found on the Gulf Slope
Ornate hawk-eagle
Black hawk-eagle
Plain chachalaca
Short-billed pigeon
Blue ground-dove
White-faced quail-dove
Red-lored parrot
White-crowned parrot
Brown-hooded parrot
Olive-throated parakeet
Stripe-throated hermit
Stripe-tailed hummingbird
Rufous-tailed hummingbird
Azure-crowned hummingbird
White-bellied emerald
Wedge-tailed sabrewing
Canivet's emerald
Collared aracari
Keel-billed toucan
Lesson's motmot
Golden-olive woodpecker
Golden-fronted woodpecker
Black-cheeked woodpecker
Smoky-brown woodpecker
Rufous-breasted spinetail
Buff-throated foliage gleaner
Olivaceous woodcreeper
Plain xenops
Barred antshrike
Dot-winged antwren
Yellow-bellied elaenia
Yellow-bellied tyrannulet
Yellow-olive flycatcher
Ochre-bellied flycatcher
Northern bentbill
White-collared manakin
Lesser greenlet
White-eyed vireo
Green shrike-vireo
Brown jay
Unicolored jay
Azure-hooded jay
Spot-breasted wren
White-breasted wood-wren
Sumichrast's wren
Band-backed wren
Slate-colored solitaire
Yellow-winged tanager
Blue-gray tanager
Crimson-collared tanager
Black-throated shrike-tanager
Buff-throated saltator
White-winged tanager
Red-throated ant-tanager
Kentucky warbler
Worm-eating warbler
Golden-winged warbler
Golden-crowned warbler
Blue-black grosbeak
Black-faced grosbeak
Thick-billed seedfinch
Orange-billed sparrow
Black-cowled oriole
Yellow-billed cacique
Melodious blackbird
Chestnut-headed oropendula
Montezuma oropendula
Yellow-throated euphonia
Olive-backed euphonia
Blue-naped chlorophonia