Puerto Rico Trip List & Blog Index

Puerto Rican Tody, Bosque Estatal de Guanica
Photo: Shari Zirlin

Below are links to the blog entries for our Puerto Rican trip and the trip list of 93 species:

Guanica 12/7: Looking Around
Ponce & Guanica 12/8
Bosque Estatal de Guanica 12/9
Laguna Cartegna 12/10
Cabo Rojo 12/10
Laguna Cartegna 2nd Try 12/11
Cabo Rojo Combate Access 12/11
La Parquera 12/12: Shiny Cowbird
Dry Forest 12/13
Gilligan's Island 12/13
Copamarina 12/14: One Last Look

Species                 First Sighting
West Indian Whistling-Duck       Laguna Cartegena - West End
American Wigeon       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Blue-winged Teal       Pond Near Copamarina
Northern Shoveler       Laguna Cartegena - West End
White-cheeked Pintail       Pond Near Copamarina
Ring-necked Duck*       Laguna Cartegena - West End
TUFTED DUCK*       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Lesser Scaup*       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Masked Duck*       Laguna Cartegena - Tower
Ruddy Duck       Laguna Cartegena - West End
HELMETED GUINEAFOWL       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Pied-billed Grebe       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Magnificent Frigatebird       Outside Ponce
Brown Booby       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Brown Pelican       Copamarina
Great Blue Heron       Cabo Rojo
Great Egret       Copamarina
Snowy Egret       Pond Near Copamarina
Little Blue Heron       Pond Near Copamarina
Tricolored Heron       Pond Near Copamarina
Cattle Egret       Guanica
Green Heron       Pond Near Copamarina
Glossy Ibis       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Turkey Vulture       Bosque Estatal de Guánica
Osprey       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Red-tailed Hawk       Outside Lajas
Clapper Rail*     Pond Near Copamarina
Sora       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Purple Gallinule       Laguna Cartegena - Tower
Common Gallinule       Pond Near Copamarina
American Coot       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Caribbean Coot       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Black-bellied Plover       Cabo Rojo
American Golden-Plover*       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Wilson's Plover       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Semipalmated Plover       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Killdeer       Copamarina
Black-necked Stilt       Pond Near Copamarina
Spotted Sandpiper       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Greater Yellowlegs       Pond Near Copamarina
Willet       Pond Near Copamarina
Lesser Yellowlegs       Cabo Rojo
Ruddy Turnstone       Boqueron
Sanderling       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Semipalmated Sandpiper       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Western Sandpiper       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Least Sandpiper       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Stilt Sandpiper       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Wilson's Phalarope*       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Red-necked Phalarope*       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Royal Tern       Copamarina
Sandwich Tern       Boqueron
Rock Pigeon       Ponce
Eurasian Collared-Dove       La Parguera
White-winged Dove       Pond Near Copamarina
Zenaida Dove       Guanica
Mourning Dove       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Common Ground-Dove       Ponce
Mangrove Cuckoo       Bosque Estatal de Guánica
Smooth-billed Ani       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Antillean Mango       Copamarina
Puerto Rican Tody†       Bosque Estatal de Guánica
Belted Kingfisher       Cabo Rojo
Puerto Rican Woodpecker†       Laguna Cartegena - West End
American Kestrel       Copamarina
Caribbean Elaenia       Cabo Rojo
Lesser Antillean Pewee       Bosque Estatal de Guánica
Puerto Rican Flycatcher†       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Gray Kingbird       Bosque Estatal de Guánica
LOGGERHEAD KINGBIRD       Bosque Estatal de Guánica
Bank Swallow*       Cabo Rojo NWR--Combate access
Barn Swallow       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Cave Swallow       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Northern Mockingbird       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Pearly-eyed Thrasher       Copamarina
Northern Waterthrush       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Northern Parula       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Yellow Warbler       Bosque de Boqueron
Prairie Warbler       Copamarina
Adelaide's Warbler †      Bosque Estatal de Guánica
Bananaquit       Bosque Estatal de Guánica
Yellow-faced Grassquit       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Black-faced Grassquit       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Puerto Rican Bullfinch †      Bosque Estatal de Guánica
Yellow-shouldered Blackbird*†       Puerto Viejo Cafe
Greater Antillean Grackle       Copamarina
SHINY COWBIRD       Puerto Viejo Cafe
Venezuelan Troupial       Pond Near Copamarina
Antillean Euphonia       Bosque Estatal de Guánica
House Sparrow       Copamarina
Orange Bishop       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Orange-cheeked Waxbill       Laguna Cartegena - West End
Bronze Mannikin       Cabo Rojo Key: LIFE BIRD Year Bird *Rare for PR † Endemic to PR