10 - 12 September 1999

by Michael Delesantro

Here is our trip list for the El Cielo region from 09/10 through 09/12, 1999.  This list includes all species detected by any member of our group of eight observers.  The majority of our time was spent in lowland tropical forest and oak forest.  We spent a little time at the bottom edge of the cloud forest zone. Brush-country birds and birds seen at roadside ponds en route to the region are also included.  The weather was generally partly cloudy to cloudy with some rain and enough periods of good sunshine to remind you that you were in the tropics!

Thicket Timanou
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Wood Stork
Muscovy Duck
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Harris' Hawk
Grey Hawk
Roadside Hawk
Crested Caracara
Bat Falcon
Plain Chachalaca
Northern Bobwhite
Singing Quail
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Wilson's Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Rock Dove
Red-billed Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-dove
Ruddy Ground-dove
White-tipped Dove
Grey-headed Dove
Green Parakeet
Red-crowned Parrot
Squirrel Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner
Groove-billed Ani
Ferruginous Pgymy-Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Canivet's Emerald
Wedge-tailed Sabrewing
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Azure-crowned Hummingbird
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Mountain Trogon
Elegant Trogon
Blue-crowned Motmot
Belted Kingfisher
Lineated Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Bronze-winged Woodpecker
Olivaceous Woodcreeper
Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper
Barred Antshrike
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
Grey-collared Becard
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Greater Pewee
Eastern Wood-pewee
Great Kiskadee
Boat-billed Flycatcher
Social Flycatcher
Streaked Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Couchs' Kingbird
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Empidonax species
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Green Jay
Brown Jay
Tamaulipas Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Black-crested Titmouse
Spot-breasted Wren
Canyon Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
Brown-backed Solitaire
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Clay-colored Thrush
White-throated Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Blue Mockingbird
Rufous-browed Peppershrike
European Starling
White-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Yellow-green Vireo
Black and white Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Tropical Parula
Canada Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Painted Redstart
Fan-tailed Warbler
Golden-crowned warbler
Red-crowned Ant-tanager
Scrub Euphonia
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Yellow-winged Tanager
Hepatic Tanager
Summer Tanager
Flame-colored Tanager
White-winged Tanager
Black-headed Saltator
Crimson-collared Grosbeak
Pyrrhuloxia
Yellow-faced Grassquit
White-collared Seedeater
Olive Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Melodious Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Audubon's Oriole
Altamira Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Lesser Goldfinch
Black-headed Siskin
House Sparrow

Michael Delesantro
mdele@worldnet.att.net