Appendix A. Bird List - 601 Species
© Bert & Shari Frenz, 2003 All rights reserved.
On the last birding days at La Pesca we worked hard at breaking a milestone. In prior years our caravan birders broke the 400-species barrier, just barely. When I first laid out the new route that included both central and eastern Mexico, as well as more territory in Belize, I knew we would be exploring additional biogeography. My goal was to break the 500-species barrier. That number was reached early in this trip, so after that I was content with just birding and seeing new species occasionally. But as we crossed over into Tamaulipas with 590 species, we were approaching another centennial milestone. At Tampico we added two more to the list, leaving eight as the target for La Pesca. In fact, we found nine additional species, bringing our grand total to 601 species, of which 544 were in Mexico and 314 in Belize. (The combined AOU list for the two countries is 1091, so our group found 55% of that total).
Of these, Coen identified 535 and Brenda had 525. Chris and May had around 530 species. Lee must have been in this range as well, but he does not keep a list. My own total came to 503 species, a number I am quite happy with, given the time I spent on non-birding activities. Birders who have traveled extensively through Mexico and Central America still managed to see 35-60 life birds on the trip. For the newcomers to these birding areas, probably everyone found over 100 life birds and at least two birders added 200+ to their life lists. But not everything is numbers and, in fact, many of the birders didn't keep lists and just enjoyed seeing the beautiful and unusual birds and studying them at leisure.
Tinamous Tinamou, Great Little Thicket Slaty-breasted Grebes Grebe, Least Pied-billed Eared Boobies Booby, Brown Pelicans Pelican, American White Brown Cormorants Cormorant, Neotropic Double-crested Anhingas Anhinga Frigatebirds Frigatebird, Magnificent Herons, Egrets & Bitterns Bittern, Pinnated American Least Tiger-Heron, Bare-throated Heron, Great Blue Egret, Great Snowy Heron, Little Blue Tricolored Egret, Reddish Cattle Heron, Green Agami Night-Heron, Black-crowned Yellow-crowned Heron, Boat-billed Ibis & Spoonbills Ibis, White White-faced Spoonbill, Roseate Storks Jabiru Stork, Wood New World Vultures Vulture, Black Turkey Lesser Yellow-headed King Waterfowl Whistling-Duck, Black-bellied Fulvous Goose, Greater White-fronted Duck, Muscovy Gadwall Wigeon, American Teal, Blue-winged Cinnamon Shoveler, Northern Teal, Green-winged Duck, Ring-necked Scaup, Lesser Duck, Ruddy Hawks, Eagles & Kites Osprey Kite, Gray-headed Hook-billed Swallow-tailed White-tailed Snail Double-toothed Mississippi Plumbeous Hawk, Black-collared Harrier, Northern Hawk, Sharp-shinned Cooper's Crane White Gray Black-Hawk, Common Great Hawk, Harris's Roadside Red-shouldered Broad-winged Short-tailed (light phase) Short-tailed (dark phase)* Swainson's White-tailed Zone-tailed Red-tailed Red-tailed (Fuertes)* Red-tailed (Western dark phase rufous morph)* Ferruginous Hawk-Eagle, Black-and-white Black Ornate Falcons & Caracaras Forest-Falcon, Barred Collared Caracara, Crested Falcon, Laughing Kestrel, American Merlin Falcon, Aplomado Bat Peregrine Chachalacas & Allies Chachalaca, Plain West Mexican Guan, Crested Curassow, Great Turkeys Turkey, Ocellated New World Quails Quail, Scaled Banded Wood-Quail, Spotted Rails & Coots Wood-Rail, Gray-necked Sora Gallinule, Purple Moorhen, Common Coot, American Sungrebes Sungrebe Limpkin Limpkin Thick-knees Thick-knee, Double-striped Plovers Plover, Black-bellied Plover, Snowy Wilson's Semipalmated Killdeer Oystercatchers Oystercatcher, American Avocets & Stilts Stilt, Black-necked Avocet, American Jacanas Jacana, Northern Sandpipers Yellowlegs, Greater Lesser Sandpiper, Solitary Willet Sandpiper, Spotted Whimbrel Curlew, Long-billed Godwit, Marbled Turnstone, Ruddy Sanderling Sandpiper, Western Least Dowitcher, Short-billed Snipe, Wilson's Gulls & Terns Gull, Laughing Bonaparte's Heermann's Ring-billed Herring Glaucous Tern, Gull-billed Caspian Royal Elegant Sandwich Common Skimmer, Black Pigeons & Doves Dove, Rock Pigeon, Pale-vented Scaled White-crowned Red-billed Band-tailed Short-billed Dove, White-winged Mourning Inca Ground-Dove, Common Plain-breasted Ruddy Blue Dove, White-tipped Gray-fronted {Gray-headed} Caribbean Gray-chested Quail-Dove, Ruddy Parrots & Macaws Parakeet, Green Olive-throated {Aztec} [vicinialis] Olive-throated {Aztec} [astec]* Orange-fronted Macaw, Scarlet Parrot, Brown-hooded White-crowned White-fronted Red-crowned Red-lored Mealy Yellow-headed [oratrix] Yellow-headed [belizensis]* Old World Cuckoos Cuckoo, Mangrove Squirrel Striped Ground-Cuckoo, Lesser Roadrunner, Lesser Greater Ani, Groove-billed Owls Screech-Owl, Pacific Owl, Great Horned Pygmy-Owl, Northern {Mountain} Central American Colima Ferruginous Owl, Mottled Black-and-white Spotted Nightjars Nighthawk, Lesser Pauraque, Common Nightjar, Tawny-collared Yucatan Potoos Potoo, Northern Swifts Swift, Black White-collared Vaux's White-throated Lesser Swallow-tailed Hummingbirds Hermit, Long-tailed Long-tailed {Mexican}* Little Hummingbird, Scaly-breasted Sabrewing, Wedge-tailed Violet Jacobin, White-necked Violet-ear, Green Mango, Green-breasted Coquette, Black-crested Emerald, Canivet's Hummingbird, Dusky Broad-billed [latirostris] Broad-billed {Doubleday's} * White-eared Emerald, White-bellied Hummingbird, Berylline Rufous-tailed Buff-bellied [chalconota] Buff-bellied [yucatanensis]* Cinnamon Violet-crowned Stripe-tailed Blue-throated Magnificent Fairy, Purple-crowned Starthroat, Long-billed Hummingbird, Beautiful Ruby-throated Black-chinned Broad-tailed Rufous Trogons Trogon, Black-headed Citreoline Violaceous Mountain Elegant Collared Slaty-tailed Motmots Motmot, Russet-crowned Blue-crowned [coeruliceps] Blue-crowned [lessonii]* Turquoise-browed Kingfishers Kingfisher, Ringed Belted Amazon Green American Pygmy Puffbirds Puffbird, White-whiskered Jacamars Jacamar, Rufous-tailed Toucans Toucanet, Emerald Aracari, Collared Toucan, Keel-billed Woodpeckers Woodpecker, Acorn [lineatus] Acorn [formicivorus]* Black-cheeked Golden-cheeked Gray-breasted Red-vented/Yucatan[rubricomus] Golden-fronted [aurifrons] Golden-fronted [polygrammus]* Golden-fronted [dubius]* Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied Woodpecker,Ladder-backed[azelus] Ladder-backed [scalaris]* Hairy Strickland's Smoky-brown Golden-olive Gray-crowned Flicker, Northern (Red-shafted) Woodpecker, Chestnut-colored Lineated [similis] Pale-billed Furnarids Spinetail, Rufous-breasted Foliage-gleaner, Buff-throated Xenops, Plain Leaftosser, Scaly-throated Woodcreepers Woodcreeper, Tawny-winged Ruddy Olivaceous Wedge-billed Barred-Woodcreeper,N.[sanctithomae] Northern [sheffleri]* Woodcreeper, Ivory-billed White-striped Streak-headed Spot-crowned Antbirds Antshrike, Great Barred Antwren, Dot-winged Antbird, Dusky Anthrushes & Antpittas Antthrush, Black-faced {Mexican} Tyrant Flycatchers Tyrannulet, Yellow-bellied Beardless-Tyrannulet, Northern Elaenia, Greenish Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Ochre-bellied Sepia-capped Bentbill, Northern Tody-Flycatcher, Slate-headed Common Flatbill, Eye-ringed Flycatcher, Yellow-olive Spadebill, Stub-tailed Flycatcher, Royal Ruddy-tailed Sulphur-rumped Pileated Tufted Olive-sided Pewee, Greater Tropical Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Least Hammond's Gray Dusky Pine Pacific-slope Cordilleran Buff-breasted Phoebe, Black Eastern Say's Flycatcher, Vermilion Attila, Bright-rumped [gaumeri] Mourner, Rufous Flycatcher, Yucatan Dusky-capped Ash-throated Nutting's Great Crested Brown-crested Kiskadee, Great Flycatcher, Boat-billed Social Piratic Kingbird, Tropical Couch's Cassin's Thick-billed Western Flycatcher, Scissor-tailed Fork-tailed Schiffornis/Mourner, Thrush-like Piha, Rufous Becard, Cinnamon Rose-throated [sumichrasti] Rose-throated [aglaiae]* Tityra, Masked Black-crowned Manakins Manakin, White-collared Red-capped Shrikes Shrike, Loggerhead Vireos & Allies Vireo, Slaty White-eyed Mangrove Bell's Dwarf Yellow-throated Plumbeous Cassin's Blue-headed Hutton's Golden Warbling Philadelphia Greenlet, Tawny-crowned Lesser Shrike-Vireo, Chestnut-sided Green Peppershrike, Rufous-browed Crows & Jays Jay, Steller's Magpie-Jay, White-throated Jay, Green [luxuosa] Green [Sierra de la Tuxtlas]* Brown [morio] Brown [fuliginosus]* Yucatan Dwarf Scrub-Jay, Western Jay, Mexican / Gray-breasted Crow, Tamaulipas Raven, Chihuahuan Common / Northern Swallows Martin, Gray-breasted Swallow, Tree Mangrove Violet-green Northern Rough-winged N. Rough-winged {Ridgway's}* Bank Barn Tits & Allies Chickadee, Mexican Titmouse, Bridled Black-crested Long-tailed Tits Bushtit (Black-eared) Nuthatches Nuthatch, White-breasted Pygmy Creepers Creeper, Brown Wrens Wren, Band-backed Gray-barred Rufous-naped Spotted Boucard's Cactus Rock Canyon Spot-breasted Banded Carolina Happy Bewick's House (Northern) House (Brown-throated)* House (Southern)* Marsh White-bellied Wood-Wren, White-breasted Gray-breasted Dippers Dipper, American Kinglets Kinglet, Golden-crowned Ruby-crowned Old World Warblers Gnatwren, Long-billed Gnatcatcher, Blue-gray Black-tailed White-lored Tropical Thrushes Bluebird, Eastern Western Mountain Solitaire, Brown-backed Nightingale-Thrush, Orange-billed Russet Ruddy-capped Thrush, Swainson's Hermit Wood Robin, Clay-colored White-throated [leucauchen] Rufous-backed American Thrush, Aztec Mockingbirds & Thrashers Catbird, Gray Black Mockingbird, Northern Tropical Thrasher, Sage Long-billed Ocellated Curve-billed Crissal Mockingbird, Blue Starlings Starling, European Pipits Pipit, American Waxwings Waxwing, Cedar Silky-flycatchers Silky-flycatcher, Gray / Silky, Gray Olive warbler Warbler, Olive New World Warblers Warbler, Blue-winged Tennessee Orange-crowned Nashville Virginia's Colima Crescent-chested Parula, Northern Tropical Warbler, Yellow Yellow (Mangrove)* Chestnut-sided Magnolia Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Yellow-rumped (Audubon's)* Black-throated Gray Black-throated Green Townsend's Hermit Yellow-throated Grace's Palm Black-and-white Redstart, American Warbler, Worm-eating Ovenbird Waterthrush, Northern Louisiana Warbler, Kentucky MacGillivray's Yellowthroat, Common Altamira Gray-crowned Warbler, Hooded Wilson's Red-faced Red [ruber] Redstart, Painted Slate-throated Warbler, Golden-crowned Rufous-capped [jouyi] Rufous-capped [salvini]* Golden-browed Chat, Yellow-breasted Gray-throated Bananaquit Bananaquit Tanagers Tanager, Gray-headed Shrike-Tanager, Black-throated Ant-Tanager, Red-crowned Red-throated Tanager, Hepatic Summer Western White-winged Crimson-collared Passerini's / Scarlet-rumped Blue-gray Yellow-winged Euphonia, Scrub [affinis] Yellow-throated Elegant / Blue-headed Olive-backed Tanager, Golden-hooded Honeycreeper, Green Red-legged Sparrows & Allies Grassquit, Blue-black Seedeater, Variable White-collared [sharpei] White-collared [moreletti]* White-collared / Moreletti* White-collared(Cinnamon-rumped)[torqueola]* Ruddy-breasted Seed-Finch, Thick-billed Grassquit, Yellow-faced Flowerpiercer, Cinnamon-bellied Yellow-Finch, Grassland Brush-Finch, Rufous-capped Chestnut-capped (Plain-breasted) Green-striped Sparrow, Orange-billed Olive [rufivirgatus] Olive [verticalis]* Green-backed Ground-Sparrow, Rusty-crowned Towhee, Green-tailed Collared Spotted [maculatus] Eastern/Olive-backed [macronyx] White-throated Canyon Sparrow, Stripe-headed Black-chested Bridled Cinnamon-tailed / Sumichrast's Rufous-crowned Oaxaca Striped Chipping Clay-colored Brewer's Worthen's Black-chinned Vesper Lark Black-throated Bunting, Lark Sparrow, Savannah Grasshopper Sierra Madre Song Lincoln's Swamp White-crowned Junco, Yellow-eyed / Mexican Siskins, Crossbills & Allies Finch, Cassin's House Crossbill, Red Siskin, Pine Black-headed Goldfinch, Lesser American Grosbeak, Hooded Grosbeaks & Am. Buntings Saltator, Grayish Buff-throated [magnoides] Black-headed [atriceps] Black-headed [suffuscus]* Grosbeak, Black-faced Crimson-collared Cardinal, Northern Pyrrhuloxia Grosbeak, Rose-breasted Black-headed Blue-black Bunting, Blue Grosbeak, Blue Bunting, Indigo Orange-breasted Varied Painted Troupials & Allies Blackbird,Red-winged[phoeniceus] Meadowlark, Eastern Western Blackbird, Melodious Brewer's Grackle, Great-tailed Cowbird, Bronzed Brown-headed Oriole, Black-vented Black-cowled Orchard [phillipsi] Orchard (Ochre) [fuertesi]* Hooded Yellow-backed Yellow-tailed Streak-backed Bullock's [bullockii] Spot-breasted Altamira Audubon's [graduacauda] Audubon's (Dickey's) [dickeyae]* Baltimore Black-backed / Abeille's Scott's Cacique, Yellow-billed Yellow-winged Oropendola, Chestnut-headed Montezuma Old World Sparrows Sparrow, House