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Bird List - Belize Cumulative Bird List - Belize Column A: number of tours (out of 1) on which this species has been recorded Column B: number of days this species was seen in 2020 Column C: maximum daily count for this species in 2020 Column D: H= Heard Only NOTE: List reflects only 6 days of data as 2020 tour was shortened due to COVID-19 A B C D 1 Great Tinamou 4 2 H Tinamus major 1 Little Tinamou 1 1 H Crypturellus soui Thicket Tinamou Crypturellus cinnamomeus Slaty-breasted Tinamou Crypturellus boucardi 1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 3 100 Dendrocygna autumnalis 1 Fulvous Whistling-Duck 3 20 Dendrocygna bicolor Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata 1 Blue-winged Teal 4 125 Anas discors Northern Shoveler Anas clypeat American Wigeon Anas americana Green-winged Teal Anas carolinensi 1 Lesser Scaup 1 2 Aythya affinis 1 Plain Chachalaca 3 5 Ortalis vetula 1 Crested Guan 1 2 Penelope purpurascens 1 Great Curassow 3 6 Crax rubra Black-throated [Yucatan] Bobwhite Colinus nigrogularis Spotted Wood-Quail Odontophorus guttatus 1 Singing Quail 1 H Dactylortyx thoracicus 1 Ocellated Turkey 2 19 Meleagris ocellata Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus 1 Pied-billed Grebe 1 2 Podilymbus podiceps Rock Pigeon [Feral Pigeon] Columba livia 1 Pale-vented Pigeon 3 11 Columba cayennensis 1 Scaled Pigeon 1 H Columba speciosa White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephal 1 Red-billed Pigeon 1 2 Columba flavirostris 1 Short-billed Pigeon 3 2 Columba nigrirostris 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove 2 15 Streptopelia decaoct 1 Common Ground Dove 1 1 Columbina passerina ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Cumulative Checklist… 2 Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta 1 Ruddy Ground Dove 4 35 Columbina talpacoti 1 Blue Ground Dove 1 2 H Claravis pretiosa Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana 1 White-tipped Dove 1 1 Leptotila verreauxi Caribbean Dove Leptotila jamaicensis Gray-chested Dove Leptotila cassini 1 Gray-headed Dove 3 3 Leptotila rufaxill 1 White-winged Dove 3 30 Zenaida asiatica Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga an 1 Groove-billed Ani 3 13 Crotophaga sulcirostris 1 Striped Cuckoo 1 2 Tapera naevi 1 Pheasant Cuckoo 1 1 H Dromococcyx phasianellu 1 Squirrel Cuckoo 4 3 H Piaya cayana Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus 1 Mangrove Cuckoo 1 1 Coccyzus minor Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor 1 Common Pauraque 4 3 Nyctidromus albicollis Yucatan Poorwill Nyctiphrynus yucatanicus Yucatan Nightjar Caprimulgus badius 1 Northern Potoo 1 1 Nyctibius jamaicensis Black Swift Cypseloides nige Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutil White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica 1 Vaux's Swift 3 22 Chaetura vauxi 1 Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift 3 5 Panyptila cayennensis 1 White-necked Jacobin 3 8 Florisuga mellivora Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus Stripe-throated (Little) Hermit Phaethornis striigularis 1 Purple-crowned Fairy 1 1 Heliothryx barroti 1 Green-breasted Mango 4 5 Anthracothorax prevostii Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helena 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 6 Archilochus colubris 1 Canivet's Emerald 1 1 Chlorostilbon canivetii Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimet 1 Scaly-breasted Hummingbird 1 1 Phaeochroa cuvierii 1 Wedge-tailed Sabrewing 3 4 Campylopterus curvipennis Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucuru ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Cumulative Checklist… 3 1 White-bellied Emerald 3 11 Amazilia candida 1 Azure-crowned Hummingbird 1 1 Amazilia cyanocephala 1 Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 6 20 Amazilia tzacatl 1 Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1 2 Amazilia yucatanensis 1 Cinnamon Hummingbird 1 7 Amazilia rutila 1 Clapper Rail (Yucatan) 1 1 Rallus crepitans [pallidus Group] Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolo Rufous-necked Wood-Rail Aramides axillari 1 Russet-naped Wood-Rail 2 6 Aramides albiventri Sora Porzana carolin 1 Common Gallinule 2 3 Gallinula galeat 1 American Coot 2 142 Fulica american Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinic 1 Yellow-breasted Crake 1 1 H Hapalocrex flavivente Ruddy Crake Laterallus rube Gray-breasted Crake Laterallus exili 1 Sungrebe 1 2 Heliornis fulic 1 Limpkin 4 30 Aramus guaraun 1 Black-necked Stilt 2 11 Himantopus mexicanu American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatu 1 Black-bellied Plover 1 10 Pluvialis squatarol 1 Wilson's Plover 1 2 Charadrius wilsoni 1 Semipalmated Plover 1 20 Charadrius semipalmatu Killdeer Charadrius vociferu 1 Northern Jacana 4 30 Jacana spinos Whimbrel Numenius phaeopu 1 Ruddy Turnstone 1 2 Arenaria interpre Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopu Sanderling Calidris alb 1 Least Sandpiper 2 30 Calidris minutill White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicolli Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanoto 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 2 Calidris pusill 1 Western Sandpiper 1 20 Calidris maur Dunlin Calidris alpin 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 2 Limnodromus griseus Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus Wilson’s Snipe Gallinago delicata Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolo 1 Spotted Sandpiper 3 4 Actitis maculariu 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 3 Tringa solitari ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Cumulative Checklist… 4 1 Greater Yellowlegs 2 1 Tringa melanoleuc Willet Tringa semipalmat 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 7 Tringa flavipe Laughing Gull Larus atricilla 1 Gull-billed Tern 1 11 Gelochelidon nilotic 1 Caspian Tern 3 35 Sterna caspia Royal Tern Sterna maxima Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis 1 Jabiru 3 18 Jabiru mycteria 1 Wood Stork 3 700 Mycteria americana 1 Magnificent Frigatebird 1 4 Fregata magnificens Brown Booby Sula leucogaste 1 Anhinga 3 3 Anhinga anhinga 1 Neotropic Cormorant 4 200 Phalacrocorax brasilianus 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 3 Phalacrocorax auritus 1 American White Pelican 2 37 Pelecanus erythrorhyncho 1 Brown Pelican 1 1 Pelecanus occidentalis 1 Pinnated Bittern 1 1 Botaurus pinnatus 1 Least Bittern 1 1 Ixobrychus exili 1 Bare-throated Tiger-Heron 4 3 Tigrisoma mexicanum 1 Great Blue Heron 4 21 Ardea herodias 1 Great Egret 5 1100 Ardea alba 1 Snowy Egret 3 125 Egretta thula 11 Little Blue Heron 4 80 Egretta caerulea 1 Tricolored Heron 2 12 Egretta tricolor Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens 1 Cattle Egret 4 120 Bubulcus ibis 1 Green Heron 2 17 Butorides virescens 1 Agami Heron 1 1 Agamia agami 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 8 Nycticorax nycticorax 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 3 Nyctanassa violacea 1 Boat-billed Heron 2 5 Cochlearius cochlearius 1 White Ibis 3 600 Eudocimus albus 1 Glossy Ibis 1 4 Plegadis falcinellus 1 Roseate Spoonbill 1 22 Platalea ajaja 1 King Vulture 3 2 Sarcoramphus papa 1 Black Vulture 5 50 Coragyps atratus 1 Turkey Vulture 6 70 Cathartes aura 1 Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture 4 12 Cathartes burrovianus 1 Osprey 4 9 Pandion haliaetu 1 White-tailed Kite 1 1 Elanus leucurus ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Cumulative Checklist… 5 Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus Gray-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis 1 Swallow-tailed Kite 1 1 Elanoides forficatus Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus 1 Ornate Hawk-Eagle 1 1 Spizaetus ornatus 1 Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle 2 2 Spizastur melanoleucus 1 Black-collared Hawk 1 1 Busarellus nigricollis 1 Snail Kite 2 11 Rostrhamus sociabilis 1 Double-toothed Kite 2 2 Harpagus bidentatus Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensi 1 Plumbeous Kite 1 5 Ictinia plumbea Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus Bicolored Hawk Accipiter bicolor Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens 1 Common Black-Hawk 1 1 Buteogallus anthracinus 1 Great Black-Hawk 2 1 Buteogallus urubitinga 1 Roadside Hawk 5 3 Buteo magnirostris White-tailed Hawk Buteo albicaudatus 1 White Hawk 2 1 Leucopternis albicollis 1 Gray Hawk 1 3 Asturina nitida Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypteru 1 Short-tailed Hawk 2 1 Buteo brachyurus Barn Owl Tyto alba 1 Middle American Screech-Owl 1 1 Otus guatemalae Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata Central American Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium griseiceps 1 Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl 2 3 Glaucidium brasilianum 1 Mottled Owl 2 1 H Ciccaba virgata Black-and-white Owl 2 Ciccaba nigrolineat 1 Slaty-tailed Trogon 1 2 Trogon massena 1 Black-headed Trogon 3 5 Trogon melanocephalus 1 Gartered Trogon 3 3 Trogon caligatu 1 Collared Trogon 1 1 Trogon collaris Tody Motmot Hylomanes momotula 1 Lesson's Motmot 2 3 Momotus lessoni Keel-billed Motmot Electron carinatu 1 Ringed Kingfisher 3 12 Ceryle torquata 1 Belted Kingfisher 4 9 Ceryle alcyon Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona 1 American Pygmy Kingfisher 2 1 Chloroceryle aenea 1 Green Kingfisher 1 8 Chloroceryle americana ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. 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