Birds of Tortuguero National Park
including Tortuga Lodge and adjacent canals and beaches

List derived from nine Henderson birding tours from 1989 (2), 1990 (2), 1991, 1992, 1997, 2000, and 2005. Compiled by Carrol and Ethelle Henderson. One asterisk is shown for each tour on which a species was recorded, out of nine total tours. Updated February 16, 2005.

Great tinamou****
Pied-billed grebe*
Brown pelican***** ****
Parasitic jaeger*
Brown noddy**
Neotropic cormorant***** ***
Anhinga***** ****
Magnificent frigatebird***** ****
Rufescent tiger-heron***
Bare-throated tiger-heron***** ***
Boat-billed heron***** *
Yellow-crowned night-heron***** ***
Cattle egret******
Green heron***** ****
Little blue heron***** ****
Tricolored heron*****
Snowy egret***** ****
Great egret***** ***
Great blue heron***** ***
Chestnut-bellied heron******
Wood stork*
Turkey vulture***** ****
Black vulture***** ****
King vulture****
Green ibis*****
Muscovy duck**
Gray-headed kite****
Swallow-tailed kite**
Tiny hawk*
Double-toothed kite***** ***
Broad-winged hawk***** **
Roadside hawk*
Semiplumbeous hawk****
Common black-hawk***** ****
Great black-hawk***
Black-collared hawk*
Osprey***** ****
Slaty-backed forest-falcon*
Laughing falcon****
Peregrine falcon*
Bat falcon**
Great curassow*****
Crested guan**
Limpkin***
Gray-necked wood-rail*****
White-throated crake***
Common moorhen*
Purple gallinule****
American coot*
Sungrebe***** ***
Sunbittern*
Northern jacana***** ****
Black-bellied plover***
Semipalmated plover**
Collared plover**
Willet*
Whimbrel****
Spotted sandpiper***** ***
Semipalmated sandpiper*
Laughing gull***
Royal tern*****
Rock dove*
Pale-vented pigeon****
Short-billed pigeon***** ****
Ruddy ground-dove*
Great green macaw***
White-crowned parrot***** ****
Red-lored parrot***** ***
Mealy amazon***** **
Brown-hooded parrot**
Olive-throated parakeet*
Squirrel cuckoo***** **
Groove-billed ani***** ****
Crested owl**
Spectacled owl*
Black-and-white owl***
Great potoo***
Gray potoo**
Short-tailed nighthawk*
Common pauraque*
White-collared swift***** *
Vaux's swift*
Gray-rumped swift*****
Lesser swallow-tailed swift***
Bronzy hermit***** ****
Band-tailed barbthroat*
Western long-billed hermit***** *
Stripe-throated (little) hermit****
Blue-chested hummingbird**
Rufous-tailed hummingbird***** ***
Red-footed plumeleteer*
White-necked jacobin*
Violet-crowned woodnymph*
Slaty-tailed trogon***** ***
Black-throated trogon**
Ringed kingfisher***** ****
Belted kingfisher***** ***
Amazon kingfisher*****
Green kingfisher***** ****
Green-and-rufous kingfisher***** *
Pygmy kingfisher***** **
White-necked puffbird***** **
White-fronted nunbird*****
Collared araçari***** ****
Keel-billed toucan***** ****
Chestnut-mandibled toucan***** ****
Chestnut-colored woodpecker ****
Cinnamon woodpecker***
Lineated woodpecker***** ***
Pale-billed woodpecker***** *
Black-cheeked woodpecker*****
Northern barred-woodcreeper ***** **
Black-striped woodcreeper*
Fasciated antshrike*
Barred antshrike*
Western slaty-antshrike*****
Streak-crowned antvireo*
Chestnut-backed antbird***** **
Red-capped manakin***
White-collared manakin***** ****
Snowy cotinga**
Bright-rumped attila***
Rufous piha**
Masked tityra****
Purple-throated fruitcrow***** **
Black-crowned tityra****
Cedar waxwing*
Long-tailed tyrant**
Tropical kingbird***** **
Boat-billed flycatcher***** **
Social flycatcher***** *
Gray-capped flycatcher*
Great kiskadee***** ****
Yellow-margined flycatcher*
Ruddy-tailed flycatcher*
Yellow-bellied elaenia*
Mistletoe tyrannulet**
Brown-capped tyrannulet**
Eye-ringed flatbill*
Common tody-flycatcher*
N. rough-winged swallow***
S. rough-winged swallow*
Gray-breasted martin****
Barn swallow*
Mangrove swallow***** ****
Great crested flycatcher***
Brown jay*
Plain (canebrake) wren*****
Stripe-breasted wren***** *
Bay wren***** ***
House wren**
White-breasted wood-wren****
Black-throated wren*
Clay-colored robin*****
Green shrike-vireo***
Yellow-throated vireo**
Philadelphia vireo*
Lesser greenlet***
Prothonotary warbler*****
Tennessee warbler*
Yellow warbler*****
Yellow-rumped warbler*
Chestnut-sided warbler*****
Olive-crowned yellowthroat*
Northern waterthrush**
Louisiana waterthrush**
Montezuma oropendola***** ****
Scarlet-rumped cacique***** ***
Yellow-billed cacique*
Great-tailed grackle***** **
Black-cowled oriole**
Baltimore oriole****
Melodius blackbird*
Green honeycreeper***
Shining honeycreeper*
White-lined tanager*
Olive-backed euphonia****
Golden-hooded tanager***
Blue-gray tanager***** **
Palm tanager***** ***
Passerini's tanager*****
Summer tanager***
Western tanager*
Red-throated ant-tanager*****
Blue dacnis*
Bananaquit*
Blue-black grosbeak***
Buff-throated saltator***
Variable seedeater***** ***
Thick-billed seed-finch*
Blue-black grassquit*
Orange-billed sparrow****
Black-striped sparrow***