P I C O B O N I T O R E A D E R R E N D E Z V O U S IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SPECIES CHECKLIST W E E K O N E SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: DATE LOCATIONS VISITED WEATHER CONDITIONS / NOTES Day 1 Arrival Day 2 Pico Bonito Day 3 Rio Santiago Day 4 Lancetilla Day 5 Big Sit La Cieba Day 6 Cuero y Salado Day 7 Cayos Cochinos Day 8 - 1 - Pico Bonito & Bird Watcher's Digest Reader Rendezvous 2018 Common Name Scientific Name Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Total NOTES Tinamous Tinamidae Great Tinamou Tinamus major H Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui x x x Slaty-breasted Tinamou Crypturellus boucardi Guans Cracidae Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula H x x Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens Highland Guan Penelopina nigra Great Curassow Crax rubra Grebes Podicepidae Pied-billed Grebe Podylimbus podicepts Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus Pelicans Pelecanidae American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis x x x x Quail Odontophoridae Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge Dendrortyx leucophrys Spotted Wood-Quail Odontophorus guttatus Black-eared Wood-Quail Odontophorus melanotis Singing Quail Dactylortyx thoracicus Ocellated Quail Cyrtonyx ocellatus Tawny-faced Quail Rhynchortyx cinctus Spotted-bellied Bobwhite Colinus leucopogon Pelicans and Cormorants Phalacrocoracidae Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus x x x x Anhinga Anhingidae Anhinga Anhinga anhinga x - 2 - Frigate Birds Fregatidae Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Total NOTES Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens x x Herons , Egrets and Bitterns Ardeidae Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis Rufescent Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma lineatum Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum x Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias x x Great Egret Casmerodius albus * x Snowy Egret Egretta thula x x Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea x x Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis * x x x x x Green Heron Butorides virescens * x x Agami Heron Agamia agami Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea x x Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius c. phillipsi Ibises Threskiornithidae White Ibis Eudocimus albus Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja Storks Ciconiidae Jabiru Jabiru mycteria Wood Stork Mycteria americana x x Waterfowl Anatidae Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata Blue-winged Teal Anas discors * x Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata Northern Pintail (C&S) Anas acuta Lesser Scaup (C&S) Aythya affinis - 3 - Vultures Cathartidae Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Total NOTES Black Vulture Coragyps atratus * x x x x x x Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus x Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura * x x x x x x King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa Hawks, Eagles, and Kites Accipitridae Osprey Pandion haliaetus Gray-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis x Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus x American Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides fortificatus Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus x x Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis Plumbeous Kite Ictinia plumbea Black-collared Hawk Busarellus nigricollis Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii ? Bicolored Hawk Accipiter bicolor Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens White Hawk Leucopternis albicollis x Gray Hawk Buteo nitidus x x Great Black-Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga x Common Black-Hawk Bueteogallus anthracinus x x Mangrove Common Black-Hawk Beuteogallus a.