San Blas Bird List

Among the 365+ species of birds seen on Durango Highway / San Blas trips in the past are the following. As always, some are common, some not so common, and some rare and difficult to find.

  • Least grebe        

  • Blue-footed booby         

  • Neotropic cormorant    

  • Magnificent frigatebird

  • Anhinga              

  • Reddish egret   

  • Tricolored heron             

  • Boat-billed heron            

  • Bare-throated tiger heron           

  • White ibis           

  • Roseate spoonbill           

  • Wood stork       

  • Black-bellied whistling duck       

  • Fulvous whistling duck 

  • Muscovy duck  

  • Osprey

  • Snail kite             

  • Double-toothed kite      

  • Common black hawk     

  • Great black hawk            

  • Gray hawk         

  • Short-tailed hawk           

  • White-tailed hawk          

  • Harris' hawk     

  • Zone-tailed hawk            

  • Black hawk-eagle            

  • Bat falcon           

  • Crested caracara             

  • Laughing falcon

  • Collared forest falcon    

  • Peregrine falcon              

  • Elegant quail     

  • Purple gallinule

  • Common gallinule           

  • Rufous-necked wood-rail

  • Limpkin

  • Rufous-bellied chachalaca

  • Stilt sandpiper 

  • Northern jacana              

  • American oystercatcher

  • Wilson's plover

  • Black skimmer 

  • Red-billed pigeon            

  • White-tipped dove         

  • Ruddy ground dove       

  • Military macaw

  • White-fronted parrot    

  • Lilac-crowned parrot     

  • Blue-rumped parrotlet  

  • Orange-fronted parakeet             

  • Squirrel cuckoo

  • Mangrove cuckoo           

  • Groove-billed ani            

  • Lesser roadrunner          

  • Mottled owl      

  • Middle American screech owl   

  • Colima pygmy owl          

  • Ferruginous pygmy owl

  • Stygian owl        

  • Flammulated owl            

  • Northern potoo

  • White-naped swift          

  • Chestnut-collared swift

  • Cinnamon hummingbird             

  • White-eared hummingbird         

  • Berylline hummingbird 

  • Golden-crowned emerald           

  • Mexican woodnymph   

  • Bumblebee hummingbird           

  • Sparkling-tailed woodstar           

  • Plain-capped starthroat

  • Mountain trogon            

  • Elegant trogon 

  • Citreoline trogon            

  • Eared quetzal   

  • Russet-crowned motmot            

  • Green kingfisher             

  • Ringed kingfisher            

  • Golden-cheeked woodpecker    

  • Gray-crowned woodpecker        

  • Lineated woodpecker    

  • Pale-billed woodpecker

  • Ivory-billed woodcreeper            

  • White-striped woodcreeper       

  • Olivaceous woodcreeper             

  • Rose-throated becard   

  • Gray-collared becard     

  • Masked tityra   

  • Greenish elaenia             

  • Least flycatcher

  • Pine flycatcher 

  • White-throated flycatcher          

  • Buff-breasted flycatcher              

  • Nutting’s flycatcher       

  • Brown-crested flycatcher            

  • Tufted flycatcher             

  • Bright-rumped attila      

  • Tropical kingbird             

  • Thick-billed kingbird      

  • Social flycatcher              

  • Great kiskadee 

  • Boat-billed flycatcher    

  • Mangrove swallow         

  • San Blas jay       

  • Purplish-backed jay        

  • Tufted jay           

  • Black-throated magpie jay          

  • Green jay           

  • Sinaloa crow     

  • Mexican chickadee         

  • Happy wren      

  • Sinaloa wren     

  • Spotted wren   

  • Blue mockingbird           

  • Brown-backed solitaire 

  • Orange-billed nightingale thrush             

  • Russet nightingale thrush           

  • White-throated robin    

  • Rufous-backed robin     

  • Aztec thrush     

  • Gray silky flycatcher       

  • Golden vireo     

  • Black-capped vireo         

  • Mangrove vireo

  • Tropical parula 

  • Crescent-chested warbler           

  • Red-faced warbler

  • Slate-throated redstart 

  • Painted redstart              

  • Red warbler      

  • Fan-tailed warbler          

  • Black and white warbler              

  • Hooded warbler              

  • Golden-browed warbler              

  • Rufous-capped warbler

  • Golden-crowned warbler            

  • Red-breasted chat          

  • Yellow-winged cacique  

  • Streak-backed oriole      

  • Orchard oriole  

  • Black-vented oriole         

  • Baltimore oriole              

  • Audubon's oriole            

  • Flame-colored tanager 

  • Red-headed tanager      

  • Red-crowned ant-tanager           

  • Rosy thrush tanager       

  • Five-striped sparrow     

  • Stripe-headed sparrow

  • Rusty-crowned ground-sparrow

  • Rufous-capped brushfinch         

  • Green-striped brushfinch            

  • Blue-black grassquit      

  • Cinnamon-rumped (White-collared) seedeater 

  • Ruddy-breasted seedeater          

  • Rose-breasted grosbeak              

  • Yellow grosbeak              

  • Cinnamon-bellied (Grayish) saltator       

  • Blue bunting     

  • Painted bunting

  • Indigo bunting 

  • Blue-hooded euphonia 

  • West Mexican euphonia              

  • Black-headed siskin