Puerto Rico Bird List

Among the approximately 100 species of birds I saw on my scouting trip in April of 2024 are the following. As always, some are common, some not so common, and some rare and difficult to find.

  • Ruddy Duck

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

  • Least Grebe

  • Pied-billed Grebe

  • Rock Pigeon

  • Scaly-naped Pigeon

  • White-crowned Pigeon

  • Plain Pigeon

  • Eurasian Collared-Dove

  • African Collared-Dove

  • Common Ground-Dove

  • Ruddy Quail-Dove

  • Key West Quail-Dove

  • White-winged Dove

  • Zenaida Dove

  • Smooth-billed Ani

  • Mangrove Cuckoo

  • Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo

  • Puerto Rican Nightjar

  • Puerto Rican Mango

  • Green Mango

  • Green-throated Carib

  • Puerto Rican Emerald

  • Antillean Crested Hummingbird

  • Clapper Rail

  • Common Gallinule

  • Purple Gallinule

  • Yellow-breasted Crake

  • Whimbrel

  • Greater Yellowlegs

  • Lesser Yellowlegs

  • Solitary Sandpiper

  • Spotted Sandpiper

  • Willet

  • Western Sandpiper

  • Least Sandpiper

  • Stilt Sandpiper

  • Semipalmated Sandpiper

  • Laughing Gull

  • Sandwich Tern

  • Royal Tern

  • Magnificent Frigatebird

  • Brown Booby

  • Neotropic Cormorant

  • Anhinga

  • Brown Pelican

  • Great Blue Heron

  • Great Egret

  • Little Blue Heron

  • Snowy Egret

  • Western Cattle Egret

  • Green Heron

  • Black-crowned Night-Heron   

  • Yellow-crowned Night-Heron       

  • White Ibis

  • Glossy Ibis                     

  • Osprey                              

  • Broad-winged Hawk                    

  • Red-tailed Hawk                  

  • Puerto Rican Owl

  • Short-eared Owl

  • Puerto Rican Tody

  • Belted Kingfisher

  • Puerto Rican Woodpecker         

  • Peregrine Falcon               

  • American Kestrel

  • Monk Parakeet

  • White-winged Parakeet

  • Puerto Rican Parrot

  • Caribbean Elaenia

  • Lesser Antillean Pewee

  • Puerto Rican Flycatcher

  • Gray Kingbird

  • Loggerhead Kingbird

  • Puerto Rican Vireo                     

  • Black-whiskered Vireo

  • Caribbean Martin                      

  • Cave Swallow

  • Pearly-eyed Thrasher

  • Northern Mockingbird                   

  • Red-legged Thrush              

  • Scaly-breasted Munia     

  • Orange-cheeked Waxbill          

  • House Sparrow

  • Puerto Rican Euphonia                 

  • Puerto Rican Tanager

  • Puerto Rican Spindalis

  • Puerto Rican Oriole

  • Venezuelan Troupial

  • Yellow-shouldered Blackbird

  • Black-and-white Warbler

  • Common Yellowthroat

  • Elfin-woods Warbler  

  • American Redstart

  • Cape May Warbler

  • Yellow Warbler

  • Black-throated Blue Warbler            

  • Adelaide's Warbler

  • Bananaquit                           

  • Yellow-faced Grassquit                

  • Puerto Rican Bullfinch           

  • Black-faced Grassquit