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Among the 350+ species of birds collectively seen in Belize on past trips are the following.  As usual, some are common, some less common, and some fairly rare.

Great tinamou
Little tinamou
Slaty-breasted tinamou
Thicket tinamou
Anhinga
Bare-throated tiger-heron
Agami heron
Boat-billed heron
Roseate spoonbill
Jabiru
Wood stork
Lesser yellow-headed vulture
King vulture
Muscovy duck
Gray-headed kite
Hook-billed kite
Snail kite
Black-collared hawk
Crane hawk
White hawk
Great black hawk
Roadside hawk
Short-tailed hawk
Black hawk-eagle
Ornate hawk-eagle
Blak-and-white hawk-eagle
Laughing falcon
Bat falcon
Orange-breasted falcon
Aplomado falcon
Plain chachalaca
Crested guan
Great curassow 
Ocellated turkey
Yucatan bobwhite
Ruddy crake
Gray-necked wood-rail
Purple gallinule
Sungrebe
Limpkin
Northern jacana
Pale-vented pigeon
Short-billed pigeon
Red-billed pigeon
Scaled pigeon
Plain-breasted ground-dove
Blue ground-dove
White-tipped dove
Ruddy quail-dove
Aztec parakeet
White-crowned parrot
White-fronted parrot
Yellow-lored parrot
Mealy parrot
Red-lored parrot
Brown-hooded parrot
Yellow-headed parrot
Squirrel cuckoo
Striped cuckoo
Grove-billed ani
Mottled owl
Black-and-white owl
Ferruginous pygmy owl
Vermiculated screech owl
Stygian owl
Common pauraque
Yucatan nightjar
Northern potoo
White-collared swift
Lesser swallow-tailed swift
Long-tailed hermit
Little hermit
Wedge-tailed sabrewing
Scaly-breasted hummingbird
Green-breasted mango
White-bellied emerald
White-necked jacobin
Canivet’s emerald
Azure-crowned hummingbird
Rufous-tailed hummingbird
Purple-crowned fairy
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Black-headed trogon
Gartered (Violaceous) trogon
Slaty-tailed trogon
Collared trogon
Tody motmot
Blue-crowned motmot
Keel-billed motmot
Ringed kingfisher
Amazon kingfisher
Green kingfisher
American pygmy kingfisher
White-necked puffbird
White-whiskered puffbird
Rufous-tailed jacamar
Emerald toucanet
Collared aracari
Keel-billed toucan
Black-cheeked woodpecker
Yucatan woodpecker
Golden-fronted woodpecker
Smoky-brown woodpecker
Golden-olive woodpecker
Chestnut-colored woodpecker
Lineated woodpecker
Pale-billed woodpecker
Rufous-breasted spinetail
Plain xenops
Scaly-throated leaftosser
Tawny woodcreeper
Ruddy woodcreeper
Olivaceus woodcreeper
Wedge-billed woodcreeper
Northern barred-woodcreeper
Ivory-billed woodcreeper
Streak-headed woodcreeper
Barred antshrike
Great antshrike
Dot-winged antwren
Dusky antbird
Plain antvireo
Black-faced antthrush
Greenish elaenia
Yellow-bellied elaenia
Ochre-bellied flycatcher
Northern bentbill
Common tody-flycatcher
Eye-ringed flatbill
Yellow-olive flycatcher
Sepia-capped flycatcher
Stub-tailed spadebill
Royal flycatcher
Sulphur-rumped flycatcher
Ruddy-tailed flycatcher
Tropical pewee
Yellow-bellied tyrannulet
Yellow-bellied flycatcher
Least flycatcher
Bright-rumped attila
Yucatan flycatcher
Great kiskadee
Boat-billed flycatcher
Social flycatcher
Tropical kingbird
Couch’s kingbird
Scissor-tailed flycatcher
Fork-tailed flycatcher
Rufous mourner
Thrushlike schiffornis
Cinnamon becard
Rose-throated becard
Gray-collared becard
Masked tityra
Black-crowned tityra
Lovely cotinga
White-collared manakin
Red-capped manakin
White-eyed vireo
Mangrove vireo
Yellow-throated vireo
Lesser greenlet
Tawny-crowned greenlet
Rufous-browed peppershrike
Green jay
Brown jay
Yucatan jay
Mangrove swallow
Band-backed wren
Spot-breasted wren
Carolina (white-browed) wren
White-breasted wood-wren
Plain wren
Long-billed gnatwren
Tropical gnatcatcher
Wood thrush
Clay-colored robin
White-throated robin
Black catbird
Tropical mockingbird
Blue-winged warbler
Golden-winged warbler
Swainson's warbler
Northern parula
Chestnut-sided warbler
Magnolia warbler
Black-throated green warbler
Yellow-throated warbler
Black-and-white warbler
Worm-eating warbler
Ovenbird
Kentucky warbler
Gray-crowned yellowthroat
Hooded warbler
Golden-crowned warbler
Rufous-capped warbler
Gray-headed tanager
Black-throated shrike-tanager
Red-crowned ant-tanager
Red-throated ant-tanager
Crimson-collared tanager
Passerini’s tanager
Blue-gray tanager
Yellow-winged tanager
Golden-hooded tanager
Red-legged honeycreeper
Blue-black grassquit
Variable seedeater
White-collared seedeater
Thick-billed seed-finch
Yellow-faced grassquit
Rusty sparrow
Orange-billed sparrow
Olive sparrow
Green-backed sparrow
Grayish saltator
Buff-throated saltator
Black-headed saltator
Black-faced grosbeak
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Blue-black grosbeak
Blue bunting
Indigo bunting
Melodious blackbird
Giant cowbird
Black-cowled oriole
Orchard oriole
Hooded oriole
Yellow-backed oriole
Yellow-tailed oriole
Baltimore oriole
Yellow-billed cacique
Montezuma oropendola
Yellow-throated euphonia
Olive-backed euphonia
Scrub euphonia
Black-headed siskin



Last updated: August 29, 2010.