Rio Platano and Copan Ruins

18 April to 4 May 2004

Observers: Chuck Trost, Ph.D.

 

Chuck Trost, professor emeritus from Idaho State University, and a group of friends from Idaho visited the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve in the spring of 2004.  One of the best birds they saw was the Zone-tailed Hawk; this species is rarely reported for Honduras, and all previous records have been from the months of November to January.  

 

Location Codes:

RP = Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve

TB = road from Tegucigalpa to the Río Plátano headwaters

CR = Copán Ruins

Brown Pelican (RP)

Neotropical Cormorant (RP)

Anhinga (RP)

Magnificent Frigatebird (RP)

Rufescent Tiger-Heron (RP)

Great Blue Heron (RP)

Great Egret (RP & TB)

Snowy Egret (RP & TB)

Little Blue Heron (RP & TB)

Tricolored Heron (RP)

Cattle Egret (RP, TB, & CR)

Green Heron (RP & TB)

Agami Heron (RP)

Black-cr. Night-Heron (RP & TB)

White Ibis (RP)

Wood Stork (TB)

Black Vulture (RP, TB, & CR)

Turkey Vulture (RP, TB, & CR)

L. Yellow-headed Vulture (RP)

King Vulture (RP & TB)

Osprey (RP)

Swallow-tailed Kite (RP & TB)

Plumbeous Kite (RP & TB)

White Hawk (RP)

Common Black-Hawk (RP)

Great Black-Hawk (RP)

Roadside Hawk (TB)

Short-tailed Hawk (RP)

Zone-tailed Hawk (TB)

Crested Caracara (TB)

Am. Kestrel (TB)

Plain Chachalaca (CR)

Crested Bobwhite (CR) - heard only

Gray-necked Wood-Rail (RP)

Sungrebe (RP)

Northern Jacana (RP)

Solitary Sandpiper (TB)

Spotted Sandpiper (RP & TB)

Laughing Gull (RP & TB)

Caspian Tern (RP)

Royal Tern (RP)

Rock Pigeon (TB)

Scaled Pigeon (RP)

Red-billed Pigeon (RP)

Short-billed Pigeon (RP)

White-winged Dove (TB)

Inca Dove (RP)

Ruddy Ground-Dove (TB)

Blue Ground-Dove (RP)

White-tipped Dove (RP)

Olive-throated Parakeet (RP)

Orange-fronted Parakeet (RP)

Great Green Macaw (RP)

Scarlet Macaw (RP)

White-crowned Parrot (RP & TB)

Red-lored Parrot (RP)

Mealy Parrot (RP)

Yellow-headed Parrot (RP)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (RP &CR)

Squirrel Cuckoo (RP & TB)

Groove-billed Ani (RP, TB, & CR)

Vermiculated Screech-Owl (RP)

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (TB)

Common Paraque (RP)

White-collard Swift (RP)

Chimney Swift (RP)

Bronzy Hermit (RP)

Long-billed Hermit (RP)

White-necked Jacobin (RP)

Azure-crowned Hummingbird (RP)

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (RP)

Cinnamon Hummingbird (CR)

Violaceous Trogan (RP) heard only

Slaty-tailed Trogan (RP)

Turquoise-browed Motmot (CR)

Ringed Kingfisher (RP)

Amazon Kingfisher (RP)

Green Kingfisher (RP)

White-fronted Nunbird (RP)

Rufous-tailed Jacamar (RP)

Collared Aracari (CR)

Keel-billed Toucan (RP)

Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (RP)

Acorn woodpecker (CR)

Black-cheeked Woodpecker (RP)

Golden-fronted Woodpecker (RP)

Olivaceous Woodcreeper (RP)

Strong-billed woodcreeper (TB)

Common tody-Flycatcher (RP)

Royal Flycatcher (RP)

Willow Flycatcher (?) (RP)

Black Phoebe (RP)

Long-tailed Tyrant (RP)

Great Kiskadee (RP, TB, & CR)

Boat-billed Flycatcher (TB & CR)

Social Flycatcher (TB & CR)

Sulpher-bellied Flycatcher (RP)

Piratic Flycatcher (RP)

Tropical Kingbird (RP, TB, & CR)

Western Kingbird (RP)

Eastern Kingbird (RP)

Rose-throated Becard (RP)

Masked Tityra (RP & CR)

Black-crowned Tityra (RP)

White-collared Manakin (RP)

Red-capped Manakin (RP)

Blue-headed Vireo (RP)

Warbling Vireo (RP)

Yellow-green Vireo (RP)

Steller's Jay (TB)

Brown Jay (RP)

Bushy-crested Jay (CR)

Gray-breasted Martin (RP)

Mangrove Swallow (RP)

Southern Rough-winged Swallow (RP)

Barn Swallow (RP)

Brown-backed Solitaire (CR)

Orange-billed Nightengale-Thrush (CR)

Clay-colored Robin (TB, RP, & CR)

Chestnut-sided Warbler (RP)

Black-throated Green Warbler (CR)

Black-and-white Warbler (RP)

Am. Redstart (RP & CR)

Prothonotary Warbler (RP)

Louisiana Waterthrush (RP)

Wilson's Warbler (CR)

Canada Warbler (RP)

Slate-throated Whitestart (CR)

Band-rumped Warbler (RP)

Yellow Warbler (RP & CR)

Scarlet Tanager (RP)

Scarlet-rumped Tanager (RP)

Crimson-collared Tanager (RP)

Blue-gray Tanageer (RP & CR)

Yellow-winged Tanager (RP & CR)

Scrub Euphonia (TB)

Elegant Euphonia (CR)

Green Honeycreeper (RP)

Red-legged Honeycreeper (RP)

Slate-colored Seedeater (RP)

Variable Seedeater (RP)

White-collared Seedeater (RP)

Thick-billed Seed-Finch (RP)

Yellow-faced Grassquit (RP)

Green-backed Sparrow (RP)

Rusty Sparrow (CR)

Black-headed Saltator (TB & CR)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (RP)

Blue-black Grosbeak (RP)

Melodious Blackbird (TB & CR)

Great-tailed Grackle (RP, TB & CR)

Bronzed Cowbird (TB)

Black-cowled Oriole (RP)

Altimira Oriole (RP & CR)

Baltimore Oriole (RP)

Chestnut-headed Oropendola (RP)

Montezuma Oropendola (RP & TB)

House sparrow (TB)