Birds of the Guanacaste Province

(Puntarenas, La Pacifica, Palo Verde, Santa Rosa, Lomas Barbudal, Canas, Liberia, Bebedero, La Ensenada and Los Inocentes, including wetland and coastal sites). Checklist based on ten Henderson birding trips to the Guanacaste region in Costa Rica, from 1987 through 2001. One asterisk is shown for each trip on which a species was recorded out of a total of ten. List updated November 20, 2001.

Thicket tinamou*
Least grebe***** *
Pied-billed grebe*****
Brown pelican****
Brown booby*
Olivaceous cormorant****
Anhinga***** *
Magnificent frigatebird*****
Great blue heron***** *
Green heron*****
Little blue heron***** ****
Great egret***** ****
Snowy egret*****
Cattle egret****** ***
Tricolored heron*****
Black-crowned night-heron**
Yellow-crowned night-heron**
Bare-throated tiger-heron****
Boat-billed heron****
Wood stork***** ****
Jabiru***
White ibis***** **
Glossy ibis**
Roseate spoonbill***** *
Fulvous whistling-duck*
Black-bellied whistling-duck***** ****
Muscovy duck**
Blue-winged teal****
Northern shoveler**
Northern pintail*
Cinnamon teal*
Black vulture***** ****
Turkey vulture***** *****
White-tailed kite*****
Hook-billed kite**
Snail kite***
Zone-tailed hawk**
Swainson's hawk**
Broad-winged hawk***
Roadside hawk***** *****
Short-tailed hawk***
Bay-winged hawk***
Common black-hawk*
Crane hawk*
Gray hawk**
Osprey*****
Laughing falcon**
Collared forest falcon***
Crested caracara***** ****
Peregrine falcon*****
American kestrel***** **
Yellow-headed caracara*
Crested guan*
Spot-bellied bobwhite***
Limpkin****
Common moorhen*
Purple gallinule****
American coot**
Double-striped thick-knee*****
Northern jacana***** ***
American oystercatcher*
Wilson's plover*
Semipalmated plover*
Whimbrel***
Spotted sandpiper***** **
Greater yellowlegs**
Lesser yellowlegs*
Willet*****
Ruddy turnstone*
Sanderling*
Black-necked stilt***** *
Sanderling*
Least sandpiper*
Western sandpiper**
Stilt sandpiper*
Solitary sandpiper*
Laughing gull***
Royal tern****
Sandwich tern**
Forster's tern*
Black skimmer***
Rock dove***** *
Red-billed pigeon*****
Ruddy pigeon*
Mourning dove**
White-winged dove***** ***
Inca dove***** ****
Common ground-dove***** *****
Ruddy ground-dove*****
White-tipped dove***** **
Scarlet macaw****
Orange-fronted parakeet***** **
Orange-chinned parakeet***** **
White-fronted parrot***** ****
Yellow-naped parrot*****
Crimson-fronted parakeet*
Mangrove cuckoo**
Squirrel cuckoo***** *
Groove-billed ani***** *****
Lesser ground-cuckoo *****
Common barn-owl***
Pacific screech-owl***
Spectacled owl*
Ferruginous pygmy-owl***
Lesser nighthawk*****
Common nighthawk*
Common pauraque***** *
White-collared swift*
Green-breasted mango***
Fork-tailed emerald***
Steely-vented hummingbird***
Cinnamon hummingbird***** ****
Plain-capped starthroat*****
Mangrove hummingbird*
Rufous-tailed hummingbird*
Ruby-throated hummingbird**
Black-headed trogon***** *
Elegant trogon**
Violaceous trogon***
Ringed kingfisher*****
Belted kingfisher*
Amazon kingfisher****
Green kingfisher***
Amer. pygmy kingfisher*
Turquoise-browed motmot***** *
White-necked puffbird**
Emerald toucanet*
Lineated woodpecker**
Pale-billed woodpecker**
Hoffman's woodpecker***** ***
Golden-naped woodpecker*
Olivaceous woodcreeper*
Barred woodcreeper*
Ivory-billed woodcreeper*
Streaked-headed woodcreeper***
Barred antshrike**
Long-tailed manakin**
Rose-throated becard*****
Masked tityra****
Black-crowned tityra*
3-wattled bellbird*
Scissor-tailed flycatcher***** ****
Tropical kingbird***** ***
Streaked flycatcher*
Boat-billed flycatcher****
Social flycatcher**
Gray-capped flycatcher*
Great kiskadee***** **
Great crested flycatcher***
Nutting's flycatcher***
Brown-crested flycatcher*****
Dusky-capped flycatcher***
Yellow-olive flycatcher****
Common tody flycatcher**
Yellow-bellied elaenia*
Greenish elaenia*
Slate-headed tody-flycatcher*
Gray-breasted martin**
Barn swallow***** ***
N. rough-winged swallow**
S. rough-winged swallow**
Mangrove swallow**
White-throated magpie-jay***** *****
Brown jay*****
Rufous-naped wren***** *****
Banded wren****
Rufous-and-white wren*
House wren**
Clay-colored robin****
White-lored gnatcatcher*****
Tropical gnatcatcher**
Long-billed gnatwren**
Philadelphia vireo***
Yellow-green vireo*
Black-and-white warbler*
Tennessee warbler**
Yellow warbler***** **
Prothonotary warbler*
Blackburnian warbler*
Gray-crowned yellowthroat**
Wilson's warbler*
Rufous-capped warbler*
Northern waterthrush**
Montezuma oropendola***
Great-tailed grackle***** *****
Baltimore oriole***** ****
Streak-backed oriole*****
Red-winged blackbird****
Melodius blackbird*
Eastern meadowlark***** *
Bronzed cowbird**
Orchard oriole*
Spot-breasted oriole**
Scrub euphonia***** **
Golden-crowned euphonia*
Blue-gray tanager***
Summer tanager**
Indigo bunting**
Painted bunting*
Yellow-faced grassquit**
White-collared seedeater***
Variable seedeater***
Blue-black grassquit***
Olive sparrow****
Stripe-headed sparrow*****
Rufous-collared sparrow***
House sparrow**