GREEN CASTLE ESTATE Bird List
Birds seen on recent tours during November – April | In one week we can expect around 120 species. E=Endemic | ES=Endemic Subspecies | I=Introduced
Some of the species below are very unusual however they have been included for completeness. Jamaica has recorded over 300 species and the birds below are the most frequently encountered, however we cannot guarantee what we will or will not see, that’s birding!
West Indian Whistling-Duck Lesser Yellowlegs Greater Antillean Elaenia (ES) Blue-winged Teal Whimbrel Jamaican Pewee (E) Northern Shoveler Ruddy Turnstone Sad Flycatcher (E) Ring-necked Duck Red Knot Rufous-tailed Flycatcher (E) Lesser Scaup Sanderling Stolid Flycatcher (ES) Masked Duck Semipalmated Sandpiper Gray Kingbird Ruddy Duck Western Sandpiper Loggerhead Kingbird (ES) Least Grebe Least Sandpiper Jamaican Becard (E) Pied-billed Grebe White-rumped Sandpiper Jamaican Vireo (E) White-tailed Tropicbird Baird's Sandpiper Blue Mountain Vireo (E) Magnificent Frigatebird Stilt Sandpiper Black-whiskered Vireo Brown Booby Short-billed Dowitcher Jamaican Crow (E) Brown Pelican Laughing Gull Caribbean Martin American Bittern Least Tern Tree Swallow Least Bittern Gull-billed Tern Northern Rough-winged Swallow Great Blue Heron Caspian Tern Cave Swallow (ES) Great Egret Royal Tern Barn Swallow Snowy Egret Sandwich Tern Rufous-throated Solitaire (ES) Little Blue Heron Rock Pigeon (I) White-eyed Thrush (E) Tricolored Heron White-crowned Pigeon White-chinned Thrush (E) Reddish Egret Plain Pigeon (ES) Gray Catbird Cattle Egret Ring-tailed Pigeon (E) Northern Mockingbird Green Heron White-winged Dove Bahama Mockingbird (ES) Black-crowned Night-Heron Zenaida Dove European Starling (I) Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Mourning Dove Cedar Waxwing White Ibis Common Ground-Dove (ES) Ovenbird Glossy Ibis Caribbean Dove (ES) Worm-eating Warbler Turkey Vulture Crested Quail-Dove (E) Louisiana Waterthrush Osprey Ruddy Quail-Dove Northern Waterthrush Northern Harrier Olive-throated Parakeet (ES) Black-and-white Warbler Red-tailed Hawk Green-rumped Parrotlet (I) Swainson’s Warbler American Kestrel (intermediate) Yellow-billed Parrot (E) Tennessee Warbler Merlin Black-billed Parrot (E) Common Yellowthroat Peregrine Falcon Mangrove Cuckoo Arrowhead Warbler (E) Clapper Rail Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo (E) American Redstart Sora Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo (E) Cape May Warbler Yellow-breasted Crake Smooth-billed Ani Northern Parula Purple Gallinule Barn Owl Magnolia Warbler Common Gallinule Jamaican Owl (E) Bay-breasted Warbler American Coot Antillean Nighthawk Yellow Warbler (Golden) Caribbean Coot Northern Potoo (ES) Chestnut-sided Warbler Limpkin Black Swift Blackpoll Warbler Black-bellied Plover White-collared Swift Black-throated Blue Warbler Wilson's Plover Antillean Palm-Swift Palm Warbler Semipalmated Plover Jamaican Mango (E) Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) Killdeer Vervain Hummingbird (ES) Prairie Warbler Black-necked Stilt Red-billed Streamertail (E) Black-throated Green Warbler Northern Jacana Black-billed Streamertail (E) Bananaquit (ES) Spotted Sandpiper Jamaican Tody (E) Jamaican Spindalis (E) Solitary Sandpiper Belted Kingfisher Yellow-faced Grassquit Greater Yellowlegs Jamaican Woodpecker (E) Black-faced Grassquit Willet Jamaican Elaenia (E) Yellow-shouldered Grassquit (E) Greater Antillean Bullfinch (ES) Rose-breasted Grosbeak Todus todus Orangequit (E) Indigo Bunting Ceryle alcyon Saffron Finch (I) Bobolink Melanerpes radiolatus Grasshopper Sparrow (ES) Jamaican Blackbird (E) Myiopagis cotta Lincoln's Sparrow Greater Antillean Grackle (ES) Elaenia f. fallax Rose-breasted Grosbeak Shiny Cowbird Contopus pallidus Indigo Bunting Jamaican Oriole (ES) Myiarchus barbirostris Bobolink Baltimore Oriole Myiarchus validus Jamaican Blackbird (E) Jamaican Euphonia (E) Myiarchus s. stolidus Greater Antillean Grackle (ES) Nutmeg Mannikin Tyrannus dominicensis Shiny Cowbird Dendrocygna arborea Tyrannus caudifasciatus jamaicensis Jamaican Oriole (ES) Anas discors Pachyramphus niger Baltimore Oriole Anas clypeata Vireo modestus Jamaican Euphonia (E) Aythya collaris Vireo osburni Nutmeg Mannikin Aythya affinis Vireo a. altiloquus Dendrocygna arborea Nomonyx dominicus Corvus jamaicensis Anas discors Oxyura jamaicensis Progne dominicensis Anas clypeata Tachybaptus dominicus Tachycineta bicolor Aythya collaris Podilymbus podiceps Stelgidopteryx serripennis Aythya affinis Phaethon lepturus Petrochelidon fulva poeciloma Nomonyx dominicus Fregata magnificens Hirundo rustica Oxyura jamaicensis Sula leucogaster Myadestes genibarbis solitarius Tachybaptus dominicus Pelecanus occidentalis Turdus jamaicensis Podilymbus podiceps Botaurus lentiginosus Turdus aurantius Phaethon lepturus Ixobrychus exilis Dumetella carolinensis Fregata magnificens Ardea herodias Mimus polyglottos orpheus Sula leucogaster Ardea alba Mimus gundlachii hillii Pelecanus occidentalis Egretta thula Sturnus vulgaris Botaurus lentiginosus Egretta caerulea Bombycilla cedrorum Ixobrychus exilis Egretta tricolor Seiurus aurocapillus Ardea herodias Egretta rufescens Helmitheros vermivorus Ardea alba Bubulcus ibis Parkesia motacilla Egretta thula Butorides virescens Parkesia noveboracensis Egretta caerulea Nycticorax nycticorax Mniotilta varia Egretta tricolor Nyctanassa violacea Limnothlypis swainsonii Egretta rufescens Eudocimus albus Oreothlypis peregrina Bubulcus ibis Plegadis falcinellus Geothlypis trichas Butorides virescens Cathartes aura Setophaga pharetra Nycticorax nycticorax Pandion haliaetus Setophaga ruticilla Nyctanassa violacea Thalasseus maxima Setophaga tigrina Eudocimus albus Thalasseus sandvicensis Setophaga americana Plegadis falcinellus Columba livia Setophaga magnolia Cathartes aura Patagioenas leucocephala Setophaga castanea Pandion haliaetus Patagioenas inornata exigua Setophaga petechia eoa Swainson’s Warbler Patagioenas caribaea Setophaga pensylvanica Tennessee Warbler Zenaida asiatica Setophaga striata Common Yellowthroat Zenaida aurita Setophaga caerulescens Arrowhead Warbler (E) Zenaida macroura Setophaga palmarum American Redstart Columbina passerina jamaicensis Setophaga coronata Cape May Warbler Leptotila jamaicensis jamaicensis Setophaga discolor Northern Parula Geotrygon versicolor Setophaga virens Magnolia Warbler Geotrygon montana Coereba f. flaveola Bay-breasted Warbler Aratinga nana nana Spindalis nigricephala Yellow Warbler (Golden) Forpus passerinus Tiaris o. olivacea Chestnut-sided Warbler Amazona collaria Tiaris bicolor marchii Blackpoll Warbler Amazona agilis Loxipasser anoxanthus Black-throated Blue Warbler Coccyzus minor Loxigilla violacea ruficollis Palm Warbler Coccyzus pluvialis Euneornis campestris Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) Coccyzus vetula Sicalis flaveola Prairie Warbler Crotophaga ani Ammodramus s. savannarum Black-throated Green Warbler Tyto alba furcata Melospiza lincolnii Bananaquit (ES) Pseudoscops grammicus Pheucticus ludovicianus Jamaican Spindalis (E) Chordeiles gundlachii Passerina cyanea Yellow-faced Grassquit Nyctibius j. jamaicensis Dolichonyx oryzivorus Black-faced Grassquit Cypseloides n. niger Nesopsar nigerrimus Yellow-shouldered Grassquit (E) Streptoprocne zonaris pallidifrons Quiscalus niger crassirostris Greater Antillean Bullfinch (ES) Tachornis p. phoenicobia Molothrus bonariensis Orangequit (E) Anthracothorax mango Icterus l. leucopteryx Saffron Finch (I) Mellisuga m. minima Icterus galbula Grasshopper Sparrow (ES) Trochilus p. polytmus Euphonia jamaica Lincoln's Sparrow Trochilus polytmus scitulus Lonchura punculata