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Among the 375+ species of birds seen on past Oaxaca trips are the following.  As always, some are common, some not so common, and some rare and/or difficult to find.  Please note that this list covers only the areas visited on our route - the Oaxaca Valley and the Pacific slope. 

Common loon (rare in Oaxaca)

Least grebe

Red-billed tropicbird

Brown booby

Neotropic cormorant

Magnificent frigatebird

Anhinga

Reddish egret

Tricolored heron

Boat-billed heron

Bare-throated tiger-heron

White ibis

White-faced ibis

Wood stork

Osprey

Double-toothed kite

Common black hawk

Gray hawk

Roadside hawk

Broad-winged hawk

White-tailed hawk

Short-tailed hawk

Zone-tailed hawk

Northern caracara

Laughing falcon

Wood duck (rare in Oaxaca)

Muscovy duck

Red-breasted merganser (rare in Oaxaca)

West Mexican chachalaca

Long-tailed wood-partridge

Collared plover

Royal tern

Sandwich tern

White-tipped dove

Ruddy ground dove

White-fronted parrot

Orange-fronted parakeet

Mangrove cuckoo

Squirrel cuckoo

Lesser ground cuckoo

Groove-billed ani

Lesser roadrunner

Colima pygmy owl

Mountain pygmy owl

Mottled owl

White-collared swift

Long-billed hermit

Green violet-ear

Golden-crowned emerald

Dusky hummingbird

Cinnamon hummingbird

White-eared hummingbird

Berylline hummingbird

Green-fronted hummingbird

Blue-capped hummingbird

Bumblebee hummingbird

Amethyst-throated hummingbird

Garnet-throated hummingbird

Ruby-throated hummingbird

Plain-capped starthroat

Mountain trogon

Citreoline trogon

Elegant trogon

Collared trogon

Russet-crowned motmot

Green kingfisher

Ringed kingfisher

Emerald toucanet

Golden-cheeked woodpecker

Gray-breasted woodpecker

Gray-crowned woodpecker

Lineated woodpecker

Pale-billed woodpecker

Ivory-billed woodcreeper

Spot-crowned woodcreeper

Olivaceous woodcreeper

White-striped woodcreeper

Rose-throated becard

Masked tityra

Greenish elaenia

Least flycatcher

Pine flycatcher

Nutting’s flycatcher

Flammulated flycatcher

Tufted flycatcher

Bright-rumped attila

Tropical kingbird

Thick-billed kingbird

Scissor-tailed flycatcher

Social flycatcher

Great kiskadee

Boat-billed flycatcher

Golden vireo

Slaty vireo

Mangrove vireo

Blue-headed vireo

Chestnut-sided shrike vireo

Mangrove swallow

Gray-breasted martin

White-throated magpie jay

Green jay

Dwarf jay

Mexican chickadee

Rufous-naped wren

Boucard's wren

Gray-barred wren

Banded wren

Happy wren

Gray-breasted wood wren

White-lored gnatcatcher

Blue mockingbird

Brown-backed solitaire

Russet nightingale thrush

White-throated robin

Rufous-backed robin

Aztec thrush

Ocellated thrasher

Gray silky flycatcher

Tennessee warbler

Crescent-chested warbler

Hooded yellowthroat

Slate-throated redstart

Red warbler

Red-faced warbler

Fan-tailed warbler

Black and white warbler

Golden-browed warbler

Rufous-capped warbler

Golden -crowned warbler

Red-breasted chat

Yellow-winged cacique

Streak-backed oriole

Altamira oriole

Audubon's oriole

Black-vented oriole

Spot-breasted oriole

Red-headed tanager

Common bush tanager

Flame-colored tanager

Grayish saltator

Black-headed saltator

Scrub euphonia

Elegant euphonia

Orange-breasted bunting

Painted bunting

Blue bunting

Rufous-capped brushfinch

Chestnut-capped brushfinch

Olive sparrow

Collared towhee

White-throated towhee

Blue-black grassquit

Black-headed siskin

Ruddy-breasted seedeater

White-collared seedeater

Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer

Bridled sparrow

Oaxaca sparrow

Clay-colored sparrow

Botteri's sparrow

Rusty sparrow


 


Last updated: May 13, 2010.