Trinidad & Tobago: Birding & Liming

February 11-21, 2011


Day 1

Depart Toronto. Arrive at Piarco Intarnational Airport, Trinidad via Houston, Texas. Night in Arima with Bernadette & Sam.

Barred Antshrike

Day 2

Birding in Arima.

Day 3

Sunday Service in Marabella.

Day 4

Shopping at the Arima Farmer's Market. Birding: Arima Valley, Aripo Livestock Station, Caroni Swamp.


Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Day 5

Birding: Arima Valley, Blanchisseuse Road, Asa Wright Nature Centre.  Depart Piarco Intarnational Airport, Trinidad. Arrive at Crown Point Airport, Tobago.

Day 6

Pigeon Point Beach. Birding Providence Road and vicinity.

Day 7

Birding with Newton George (guide): Tobago Main Ridge Preserve, Gilpin Trace, Bloody Bay, Speyside.



Black-faced Grassquit

Day 8

Birding: Speyside, Little Tobago.

Day 9

Birding: Scarborough, Grafton Estate.

 

Day 10

Sunday Service in Tobago. Birding: Bon Accord Treatment Ponds (dry), Depart Tobago for Trinidad.

Day 11
Depart.

Red-billed Tropicbird

Rufous-vented Chachalaca

 

Bird List

1. Little Tinamou
2. Rufous-vented Chachalaca
3. Red-billed Tropicbird
4. Magnificent Frigatebird
5. Brown Booby
6. Red-footed Booby
7. Brown Pelican
8. Great Blue Heron
9. Cocoi Heron
10. Great Egret
11. Snowy Egret
12. Little Blue Heron
13. Tricolored Heron
14. Cattle Egret
15. Green Heron
16. Striated Heron
17. Black-crowned Night-Heron
18. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
19. Scarlet Ibis
20. Black Vulture
21. Turkey Vulture
22. Osprey
23. White Hawk
24. Great Black-Hawk
25. Savanna Hawk
26. Broad-winged Hawk
27. Zone-tailed Hawk
28. Yellow-headed Caracara
29. Merlin
30. Peregrine Falcon
31. Common Gallinule
32. Southern Lapwing
33. Semipalmated Plover
34. Wattled Jacana
35. Spotted Sandpiper
36. Solitary Sandpiper
37. Greater Yellowlegs
38. Ruddy Turnstone
39. Least Sandpiper
40. Laughing Gull
41. Royal Tern
42. Rock Pigeon
43. Pale-vented Pigeon
44. Eared Dove
45. Ruddy Ground-Dove
46. White-tipped Dove
47. Green-rumped Parrotlet
48. Orange-winged Parrot
49. Yellow-crowned Parrot
50. Smooth-billed Ani
51. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
52. White-tailed Nightjar
53. Common Potoo
54. Short-tailed Swift
55. Band-rumped Swift
56. Gray-rumped Swift
57. White-necked Jacobin
58. Little Hermit
59. Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
60. Black-throated Mango
61. Tufted Coquette
62. White-tailed Sabrewing
63. White-chested Emerald
64. Copper-rumped Hummingbird
65. Guianan Trogon
66. Collared Trogon
67. Trinidad Motmot
68. Rufous-tailed Jacamar
69. Red-crowned Woodpecker
70. Golden-olive Woodpecker
71. Lineated Woodpecker
72. Stripe-breasted Spinetail
73. Yellow-chinned Spinetail
74. Plain-brown Woodcreeper
75. Olivaceous Woodcreeper
76. Cocoa Woodcreeper
77. Barred Antshrike
78. Plain Antvireo
79. White-flanked Antwren
80. White-fringed Antwren
81. Forest Elaenia
82. Yellow-bellied Elaenia
83. Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
84. Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
85. White-headed Marsh Tyrant
86. Venezuelan Flycatcher
87. Brown-crested Flycatcher
88. Great Kiskadee
89. Tropical Kingbird
90. Gray Kingbird
91. Bearded Bellbird
92. White-bearded Manakin
93. Blue-backed Manakin
94. Golden-headed Manakin
95. Red-eyed Vireo
96. Scrub Greenlet
97. Rufous-browed Peppershrike
98. Caribbean Martin
99. Gray-breasted Martin
100. White-winged Swallow
101. Rufous-breasted Wren
102. House Wren
103. Long-billed Gnatwren
104. Yellow-legged Thrush
105. Cocoa Thrush
106. Spectacled Thrush
107. Tropical Mockingbird
108. Northern Waterthrush
109. American Redstart
110. Yellow Warbler
111. Bananaquit
112. White-lined Tanager
113. Silver-beaked Tanager
114. Blue-gray Tanager
115. Palm Tanager
116. Turquoise Tanager
117. Bay-headed Tanager
118. Blue Dacnis
119. Green Honeycreeper
120. Purple Honeycreeper
121. Red-legged Honeycreeper
122. Grayish Saltator
123. Blue-black Grassquit
124. Black-faced Grassquit
125. Red-breasted Blackbird
126. Carib Grackle
127. Shiny Cowbird
128. Giant Cowbird
129. Yellow Oriole
130. Crested Oropendola
131. Trinidad Euphonia
132. Lesser Goldfinch