Yucatan and Cozumel Bird List

Among the 250 species of birds collectively seen on the Cozumel / Yucatan route on past trips are the following. This list does not include every species possible on the route and, as usual, contains common, less common, and fairly rare species.

  • Thicket tinamou

  • Anhinga

  • Plain chachalaca

  • Ocellated turkey

  • Black-throated bobwhite

  • Least grebe

  • American flamingo

  • Bare-throated tiger-heron

  • Boat-billed heron

  • Roseate spoonbill

  • Wood stork

  • Lesser yellow-headed vulture

  • Bicolored hawk

  • Roadside hawk

  • Short-tailed hawk

  • Gray hawk

  • Zone-tailed hawk

  • Black hawk-eagle

  • Collared forest-falcon

  • Laughing falcon

  • Bat falcon

  • Ruddy crake

  • Spotted rail

  • Clapper rail

  • Purple gallinule

  • Wilson's snipe

  • Ruddy turnstone

  • Northern jacana

  • Laughing gull

  • Lesser black-backed gull

  • Sandwich tern

  • Black skimmer

  • White-crowned pigeon

  • Red-billed pigeon

  • Scaled pigeon

  • White-tipped dove

  • Caribbean dove

  • Olive-throated parakeet

  • White-fronted parrot

  • Yellow-lored parrot

  • Squirrel cuckoo

  • Smooth-billed ani

  • Groove-billed ani

  • Mottled owl

  • Ferruginous pygmy owl

  • Middle American screech-owl

  • Great-horned owl

  • Common pauraque

  • Vaux's swift

  • Wedge-tailed sabrewing

  • Green-breasted mango

  • White-bellied emerald

  • Canivet’s emerald

  • Cozumel emerald

  • Mexican sheartail

  • Buff-bellied hummingbird

  • Cinnamon hummingbird 

  • Ruby-throated hummingbird

  • Black-headed trogon

  • Gartered (Violaceous) trogon

  • Lesson's (Blue-crowned) motmot

  • Turquoise-browed motmot

  • Ringed kingfisher

  • Green kingfisher

  • Collared aracari

  • Keel-billed toucan

  • Yucatan woodpecker

  • Golden-fronted woodpecker

  • Golden-olive woodpecker

  • Yellow-bellied sapsucker

  • Lineated woodpecker

  • Pale-billed woodpecker

  • Ruddy woodcreeper

  • Olivaceous woodcreeper

  • Northern barred-woodcreeper

  • Ivory-billed woodcreeper

  • Barred antshrike

  • Black-faced antthrush

  • Greenish elaenia

  • Yellow-bellied elaenia

  • Caribbean elaenia

  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

  • Northern bentbill

  • Eye-ringed flatbill

  • Yellow-olive flycatcher

  • Sepia-capped flycatcher

  • Stub-tailed spadebill

  • Northern tropical pewee

  •                 Yellow-bellied flycatcher

  • Least flycatcher

  • Bright-rumped attila

  • Yucatan flycatcher

  • Brown-crested flycatcher

  • Great kiskadee

  • Boat-billed flycatcher

  • Social flycatcher

  • Tropical kingbird

  • Couch’s kingbird

  • Rose-throated becard

  • Gray-collared becard

  • Masked tityra

  • Black-crowned tityra

  • White-eyed vireo

  • Mangrove vireo

  • Yellow-throated vireo

  • Cozumel vireo

  • Yucatan vireo

  • Lesser greenlet

  • Rufous-browed peppershrike

  • Green jay

  • Brown jay

  • Yucatan jay

  • Cave swallow

  • Mangrove swallow

  • Ridgeway's (northern) rough-winged swallow

  • Yucatan wren

  • Spot-breasted wren

  • Carolina (white-browed) wren

  • White-breasted wood-wren

  • White-bellied wren

  • Cozumel wren

  • Southern house wren

  • Long-billed gnatwren

  • White-browed gnatcatcher

  • Wood thrush

  • Clay-colored robin

  • Black catbird

  • Tropical mockingbird

  • Blue-winged warbler

  • Black-and-white warbler

  • Northern parula

  • Tennessee warbler

  • Palm warbler

  • Magnolia warbler

  • Black-throated green warbler

  • Black-throated blue warbler

  • Cape May warbler

  • Yellow-throated warbler

  • Black-and-white warbler

  • Worm-eating warbler

  • Ovenbird

  • Kentucky warbler

  • Hooded warbler

  • Red-crowned ant-tanager

  • Red-throated ant-tanager

  • Rose-throated tanager

  • Blue-gray tanager

  • Yellow-winged tanager

  • Gray-headed tanager

  • Red-legged honeycreeper

  • Blue-black grassquit

  • Morelet's seedeater

  • Yellow-faced grassquit

  • Olive sparrow

  • Green-backed sparrow

  • Cinnamon-bellied saltator

  • Black-headed saltator

  • Western spindalis

  • Rose-breasted grosbeak

  • Gray-throated chat

  • Blue bunting

  • Indigo bunting

  • Painted bunting

  • Melodious blackbird

  • Altamira oriole

  • Orange oriole

  • Black-cowled oriole

  • Orchard oriole

  • Hooded oriole

  • Yellow-backed oriole

  • Yellow-tailed oriole

  • Baltimore oriole

  • Yellow-billed cacique

  • Yellow-throated euphonia

  • Scrub euphonia