Aripo Livestock Station 4/3--29 Life Birds, 7 Year Birds

SOUTHERN LAPWING
The southern counterpart to our big find in the
 New Egypt cattle pastures
Photo: Shari Zirlin

Life birds were coming at a pace of about one every five minutes at the Aripo Livestock Agricultural Research Station which is a large tract of grasslands. We had our first hummingbirds here and great looks at three species that are mostly black and white, which, despite their lack of tropical color, are stunners: PIED WATER TYRANT, WHITE-HEADED MARSH TYRANT, and Fork-tailed Flycatcher.

WHITE-HEADED MARSH TYRANT

PIED WATER TYRANT

Fork-tailed Flycatcher

WATTLED JACANA

We got very close to the SOUTHERN LAPWINGS, so now we have a matching set of these big plovers on our life lists.
                                                        Other highlights were SAVANNA HAWK, 3 different tanagers, and many species of flycatchers.

49 species
Cattle Egret  10
Black Vulture  100
Turkey Vulture (Tropical)  1
SAVANNA HAWK  1
SOUTHERN LAPWING  7
WATTLED JACANA 4
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Rock Pigeon   50
Ruddy Ground-Dove  10
STRIPED CUCKOO  2     Heard
Smooth-billed Ani  5
BAND-RUMPED SWIFT 6
RUBY-TOPAZ HUMMINGBIRD  1
BLACK-THROATED MANGO 1
BLUE-TAILED EMERALD 1     
WHITE-CHESTED EMERALD 1
LINEATED WOODPECKER 1
YELLOW-HEADED CARACARA 1
ORANGE-WINGED PARROT 2
GREEN-RUMPED PARROTLET10
GREAT ANTSHRIKE 1     Heard
BARRED ANTSHRIKE  2
YELLOW-CHINNED SPINETAIL 2
YELLOW-BELLIED ELAENIA 1
PIED WATER TYRANT 3
WHITE-HEADED MARSH TYRANT 2
Great Kiskadee  10
STREAKED FLYCATCHER 1
Tropical Kingbird  20
Gray Kingbird  2
Fork-tailed Flycatcher  1
Red-eyed Vireo  2
SOUTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW  3
Gray-breasted Martin  10
White-winged Swallow  1
House Wren (Southern)  3
Tropical Mockingbird  5
WHITE-LINED TANAGER 5
BLUE-GRAY TANAGER 9
PALM TANAGER 10
GRASSLAND YELLOW-FINCH 4
BLUE-BLACK GRASSQUIT 2
Bananaquit  2
GRAYISH SALTATOR 1
Red-breasted Meadowlark  10
Carib Grackle  2
SHINY COWBIRD  2
YELLOW ORIOLE 2
VIOLACEOUS EUPHONIA 1