This is a check list of the bird sightings recorded by our guides in Belize.

Alcedinidae:

Podicipedidae:

Ringed Kingfisher

Least Grebe

Belted Kingfisher

Pied-billed Grebe

Amazon Kingfisher

Procellariidae:

Green Kingfisher

Max Shearwater

American Kingfisher

Audubon’s Shearwater

Bucconidae:

Pheathintidae:

White-necked Puffbird

White-tailed Tropicbird

White-whiskered Puffbird

Y

Sulidae:

Galbulidae

Masked Booby

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Y

Brown Booby

Ramphastidae:

Red-footed Booby

Emerald Toucan

Y

Pelicanidae:

Collared Aracari

Y

American White Pelican

Keel-billed Toucan

Y

Brown Pelican

Picidae:

Phalacrocoracidae:

Acom Woodpecker

Neotropic Cormorant

Y

Black-checked Woodpecker

Y

Double-crested Cormorant

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Y

Anhingidae:

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Anhinga

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Fregatidae:

Smoky-brown Woodpecker

Magnificent Frigatebird

Golden-olive Woodpecker

Ardeidae:

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

Y

Pinnated Bittern

Lineated Woodpecker

Y

American Bittern

Pale-billed Woodpecker

Y

Least Bittern

Furnariidae:

Bare-throated Tiger-heron

Rufous-breasted Spinetail

Great Blue Heron

Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner

Great Egret

Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner

Snowy Egret

Plain Xenops

Y

Little Blue Heron

Y

Tawny-throated Leaftosser

Tricolored Heron

Scaly-throated Leaftosser

Reddish Egret

Dendrocolaptidae:

Cattle Egret

Tawny-winged Woodcreeper

Y

Green Heron

Ruddy Woodcreeper

Agami Heron

Olivaceous Woodcreeper

Y

Black-crowned Night Heron

Wedge-billed Woodcreeper

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Strong-billed Woodcreeper

Boat-billed Heron

Northern Barred Woodcreeper

Threskiornitidae:

Ivory-billed Woodcreeper

White Ibis

Spotted Woodcreeper

Y

Scarlet Ibis

Streak-headed Woodcreeper

Y

Glossy Ibis

Thamnophilidae:

Roseate Spoonbill

Great Antshrike

Cociniidae:

Barred Antshrike

Y

Jabiru

Plain Antvireo

Wood Stork

Slaty Antwren

Cathartidae:

Dot-winged Antwren

Y

Black Vulture

Y

Dusky Antbird

Y

Turkey Vulture

Y

Bare-crowned Antbird

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Y

Formicariidae:

Phoenicopteridae:

Black-faced Antthrush

Y

Greater Flamingo

Tyrannidae:

Anatidae:

Elaenia

Black-bellied Whistling Duck

Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet

Greater White-fronted Goose

Greenish Elaenia

Y

Smow Goose

Caribbean Elaenia

Muscovy Duck

Yellow-billed Elaenia

American Widgeon

Ochre-bellied Flycatcher

Y

Mallard

Sepia-capped Flycatcher

Blue-winged Teal

Paltry Tyrannulet

Cinnamon Teal

Platyrinchinae

Northern Shoveller

Northern Bentbill

Y

Northern Pintail

Slate-headed Tody Flycatcher

Green-winged Teal

Common Tody Flycatcher

Ring-necked Duck

Eye-ringed Flycatcher

Lesser Scaup

Yellow-olive Flycatcher

Y

Hooded Merganser

Stub-tailed Spadebill

Y

Masked Duck

Fluvicolinae

Acciptridae:

Royal Flycatcher

Y

Osprey

Y

Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher

Gray-headed Kite

Y

Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher

Y

Hook-billed Kite

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Swallow-tailed Kite

Y

Greater Peewee

White-tailed Kite

Y

Western Wood Peewee

Snail Kite

Eastern Wood Peewee

Double-toothed Kite

Tropical Peewee

Y

Mississippi Kite

Y

Yellow-billed Flycatcher

Plumbeous Kite

Y

Acadian Flycatcher

Black-collared Hawk

Y

Alder Flycatcher

Northern Harrier

Willo Flycatcher

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Least Flycatcher

Cooper’s Hawk

Black Phoebe

Bocolored Hawk

Vermillion Flycatcher

Crane Hawk

Tyranninae:

White Hawk

Y

Bright-rumped Attila

Y

Gray Hawk

Y

Rufous Mourner

Great Black Hawk

Y

Yucatan Flycatcher

Solitary Eagle

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Y

Roadside Hawk

Y

Great Crested Flycatcher

Broad-winged Hawk

Great Kiskadee

Short-tailed Hawk

Boat-billed Flycatcher

Y

White-tailed Hawk

Y

Social Flycatcher

Y

Zone-tailed Hawk

Streaked Flycatcher

Red-tailed Hawk

Y

Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

Y

Crested Eagle

Piratic Flycatcher

Harpy Eagle

Y

Tropical Kingbird

Y

Black-and-White Eagle

Couch’s Kingbird

Black-Hawk Eagle

Y

Cassin’s Kingbird

Ornate Hawk-Eagle

Y

Eastern Kingbird

Falconidae:

Gray Kingbird

Barred Forest-Falcon

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Collared Forest-Falcon

Y

Forktailed Flycatcher

Crested Caracara

Genera Incertae Sedis:

Laughing Falcon

Y

Thrush-like Schiffornis (manakin)

Y

American Kestrel

Y

Rufous Piha

Merlin

Speckled Mourner

Aplomado Falcon

Cinnamon Becard

Bat Falcon

Y

White-winged Becard

Orange-breasted Falcon

Gray-collared Becard

Peregrine Falcon

Rose-throated Becard

Cracidae:

Masked Tityra

Y

Plain Chachalaca

Y

Cotingidae:

Crested Guan

Y

Lovely Cotingae

Great Curassow

Y

Pipridae:

Phasianidae:

White-collared Manakin

Y

Ocellated Turkey

Y

Red-capped Manakin

Y

Odontophoridae:

Vireonidae:

Black-throated Bobwhite

White-tailed Vireo

Spotted Wood-Quail

Y

Mangrove Vireo

Singing Quail

Y

Yellow-throated Vireo

Rallidae:

Plumbeous Vireo

Ruddy Crake

Blue-headed Vireo

Gray-breasted Crake

Warbling Vireo

Black Rail

Philadelphia Vireo

Y

Clapper Rail

Red-eyed Vireo

Rufous-necked Wood-Rail

Yellow-green Vireo

Y

Uniform Crake

Black-whiskered Vireo

Sora

Yucatan Vireo

Yellow-breasted Crake

Tawny-crowned Greenlet

Y

Spotted Rail

Lesser Greenlet

Y

Uniform Crake

Green Shrike Vireo

Sora

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

Yellow-breated Crake

Corvidae:

Spotted Rail

Green Jay

Purple Gallinule

Y

Brown Jay

Y

Common Moorhen

Yucatan Jay

American Coot

Y

Hirundinidae:

Heliornithidae:

Purple Martin

Sungrebe

Y

Snowy-bellied Martin

Aramidae:

Gray-breasted Martin

Limpkin

Y

Tree Swallow

Charadriidae:

Mangrove Swallow

Black-bellied Plover

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Y

American Golden-Plover

Bank Swallow

Collared Plover

Y

Cliff Swallow

Snow Plover

Cave Swallow

Wilson’s Plover

Barn Swallow

Semipalmated Plover

Troglodytidae:

Killdeer

Y

Band-backed Wren

Y

Haematopodidae:

Spot-breasted Wren

Y

Black-necked Stilt

Y

Carolina Wren

American Avocet

Plain Wren

Jacanidae:

House Wren

Northern Jacana

Y

Sedge Wren

Scolopacidae:

White-bellied Wren

Y

Greater Yellowlegs

White-breasted Wood Wren

Y

Lesser Yellowlegs

Nightingale Wren

Solitary Sandpiper

Y

Sylviidae:

Willet

Long-billed Gnatwren

Y

Spotted Sandpiper

Y

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Upland Sandpiper

Tropical Gnatcatcher

Whimbrel

Turdidae:

Long-billed Curlew

Eastern Bluebird

Hudsonian Godwit

Slate-colored Solitaire

Marbled Godwit

Veery

Ruddy Turnstone

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Red Knot

Swainson’s Thrush

Sanderling

Wood Thrush

Y

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Clay-colored Robin

Western Sandpiper

White-throated Robin

Y

Least Sandpiper

American Robin

White-rumped Sandpiper

Mimidae:

Pectoral Sandpiper

Gray Catbird

Y

Dunlin

Black Catbird

Stilt Sandpiper

Tropical Mockingbird

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Bombycillidae:

Short-billed Dowitcher

Cedar Waxwing

Long-billed Dowitcher

Parulidae:

Common Snipe

Y

Blue-winged Warbler

Wilson’s Phalarope

Tenessee Warbler

Red-necked Phalarope

Orange-crowned Warbler

Laridae:

Nashville Warbler

Great Skua

Virginia’s Warbler

Pomerine Jaeger

Northern Paruk

Parasitic Jaeger

Tropical Paruk

Laughing Gull

Yellow Warbler

Y

Franklin’s Gull

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Y

Bonaparte’s Gull

Magnolia Warbler

Y

Blacktailed Gull

Cape May Warbler

Ring-billed Gull

Black-throated Gray Warbler

Y

Herring Gull

Golden-cheeked Warbler

Black-legged Kittiwake

Black-throated Gray Warbler

Y

Gull-billed Tern

Golden-cheeked Warbler

Caspian Tern

Black-throated Green Warbler

Y

Royal Tern

Hermit Warbler

Sandwich Tern

Blackburnian Warbler

Roseate Tern

Yellow-throated Warbler

Common Tern

Grace’s Warbler

Forster’s Tern

Prairie Warbler

Least Tern

Palm Warbler

Bridled Tern

Bay-breasted Warbler

Sooty Tern

Blackpool Warbler

Black Tern

Cerulcan Warbler

Brown Noddy

Black and white Warbler

Y

Black Noddy

American Redstart

Y

Black Skimmer

Prothonotary Warbler

Columbidae:

Worm-eating Warbler

Y

Rock Dove

Swainson’s Warbler

Pale-vented Pigeon

Y

Ovenbird

Y

Scaled Pigeon

Y

Northern Waterthrush

Y

White-crowned Pigeon

Y

Louisiana Waterthrush

Red-billed Pigeon

Y

Kentucky Warbler

Short-billed Pigeon

Y

Mourning Warbler

Y

Eurasian Collared Dove

Common Yellowthroat

White-winged Dove

Gray-crowned Yellowthroat

Mourning Dove

Hooded Warbler

Y

Inca Dove

Wilson’s Warbler

Y

Common-ground Dove

Y

Canada Warbler

Plain-breasted Ground-Dove

Golden-crowned Warbler

Ruddy Ground-Dove

Y

Rufous-capped Warbler

Blue Ground-Dove

Yellow-breasted Chat

Y

White-tipped Dove

Y

Gray-throated Warbler

Gray-fronted Dove

Coerebidae:

Caribbean Dove

Bananaquit

Y

Gray-chested Dove

Thraupidae:

Ruddy Quail-Dove

Y

Common Bush Tanager

Psittacidae:

Gray-headed Tanager

Olive-throated Parakeet

Y

Black-throated Shrike-Tanager

Scarlet Macaw

Y

Red-crowned Ant-Tanager

Y

Brown-hooded Parrot

Y

Red-throated Ant-tanager

Y

White-crowned Parrot

Y

Rose-throated Tanager

White-fronted Parrot

Y

Hepatic Tanager

Yellow-lored Parrot

Y

Summer Tanager

Y

Red-lored Parrot

Y

Scarlet Tanager

Mealy Parrot

Y

Western Tanager

Yellow-headed Parrot

Y

Flame-colored Tanager

Yellow-naped Parrot

Y

Crimson-collared Tanager

Y

Cuculidae:

Passerini’s Tanager

Black-billed Cuckoo

Blue-gray Tanager

Y

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-wing

Y

Mangrove Cuckoo

Scrub Euphonia

Squirrel Cuckoo

Y

Yellow-throated Euphonia

Y

Striped Cuckoo

Elegant Euphonia

Pheasant Cuckoo

Olive-backed Euphonia

Y

Small-billed Ani

White-vented Euphonia

Groove-billed Ani

Y

Golden-hooded Tanager

Y

Tytonidae:

Green Honeycreeper

Y

Barn Owl

Y

Shining Honeycreeper

Strigidae:

Red-legged Honeycreeper

Vermiculated Screech-Owl

Y

Emberizidae:

Crested Owl

Blue-black Grassquit

Y

Spectacled Owl

Y

Slate-colored Seedeater

Great Horned Owl

Variable Seedeater

Y

Central American Pygmy Owl

White-collared Seedeater

Y

Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

Y

Thick-billed Seed-Finch

Burrowing Owl

Blue Seedeater

Mottled Owl

Y

Yellow-faced Grassquit

Y

Black and White Owl

Grassland Yellow-Finch

Stygian Owl

Orange-billed Sparrow

Y

Short-eared Owl

Olive Sparrow

Y

Striped Owl

Green-backed Sparrow

Y

Caprimulgidae:

Botteri’s Sparrow

Short-tailed Nighthawk

Rusty Sparrow

Y

Lesser Nighthawk

Chipping Sparrow

Common Nighthawk

Clay-colored Sparrow

Common Paraque

Y

Vesper Sparrow

Yucatan Poorwill

Lark Sparrow

Chuck-will’s-widow

Savannah Sparrow

Yucatan Nightjar

Grasshopper Sparrow

Whip-poor-will

Lincoln’s Sparrow

Nyctibildae:

White-crowned Sparrow

Northern Potre

Y

Cardinalidae:

Apodidae:

Grayish Saltator

White-chinned Swift

Buff-throated Saltator

Chestnut-collared Swift

Black-faced Grosbeak

Y

White-collared Swift

Y

Northern Cardinal

Chimney Swift

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Vaux’s Swift

Blue-black Grosbeak

Y

Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift

Y

Blue Bunting

Trochilidae:

Blue Grosbeak

Band-tailed Barbthroat

Indigo Bunting

Long-tailed Hermit

Y

Painted Bunting

Little Hermit

Y

Dickcissel

Scaly-breasted Hummingbird

Icteridae:

Wedge-tailed Sabrewing

Y

Bobolink

Violet Sabrewing

Y

Red-winged Blackbird

White-tailed Sabrewing

Y

Eastern Meadowlark

Brown Violt-ear

Y

Melodious Blackbird

Y

Green-breasted Mango

Y

Great-tailed Grackle

Canivet’s Emerald

Bronzed Cowbird

Violet-crowned Woodnymph

Brown-headed Cowbird

Blue-throated Goldentail

Giant Cowbird

White-bellied Emerald

Y

Black-cowled Oriole

Azure-crowned Hummingbird

Orchard Oriole

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Y

Hooded Oriole

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Yellow-backed Oriole

Cinnamon Hummingbird

Yellow-tailed Oriole

Stripe-tailed Hummingbird

Orange Oriole

Purple-crowned Fairy

Y

Altamira Oriole

Long-billed Starthroat

Baltimore Oriole

Y

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Yellow-billed Cacique

Y

Trogonidae:

Chestnut-headed Oropendola

Black-headed Trogon

Y

Montezuma Oropendola

Y

Violaceous Trogon

Y

Fringillidae:

Collared Trogon

Y

Red Crossbill

Slaty-tailed Trogon

Y

Black-headed Siskin

Momotidae:

Lesser Goldfinch

Tody Motmot

Y

Passeridae:

Blue-crowned Motmot

Y

House Sparrow

Keel-billed Motmot

Y

Tinamidae:

Great Tinamou

Y

Little Tinamou

Y

Thicket Tinamou

Slaty-breasted Tinamou