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Location Mahaica River--Baiabu
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Owner Rose Ann Rowlett

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  9
  • Distance:  1.5 mi

Checklist Comments

Field Guides Birding tour with FG guides Marcelo Barreiros and Doug Gochfeld, local guide John Christian, and boat driver Naresh.

Spent two hours on the river on Naresh’s spacious, covered boat. One brief rain shower sent the front row clambering back for cover, but after a couple of minutes, the sky was back to dry. Spent a bit of time before the boat trip at the dock along the road and at Naresh’s house, and then spent some time having a lively roti brunch at Naresh’s after we finished up the boat trip. This checklist includes all of that effort, from getting out of the van at the dock, to getting back into the van.

Big, sometimes dark, clouds threatened rain for much of the morning, but we experienced just the one brief shower. High 70s F, humid, wind E ~10 MPH.

Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 3.1.33

Totals

71
Species Observed
+2 other taxa, 380 individuals
15
Species with Photos

Observations

  1. Variable Chachalaca

    Number observed:  4

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  2. Pale-vented Pigeon

    Number observed:  20

  3. Ruddy Ground Dove

    Number observed:  8

  4. Greater Ani

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    One bird molting its tail and crossing the river ahead of us several times as we puttered our way west.

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  5. Smooth-billed Ani

    Number observed:  15

  6. Striped Cuckoo

    Number observed:  4

  7. Little Cuckoo

    Number observed:  7

    Details

    Several good views

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  8. Short-tailed Swift

    Number observed:  15

  9. Fork-tailed Palm Swift

    Number observed:  4

  10. mango sp.

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Seen poorly, mobbing a perched Gray-lined Hawk

  11. Glittering-throated Emerald

    Number observed:  1

  12. hummingbird sp.

    Number observed:  2

  13. Limpkin

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Heard only

  14. Wattled Jacana

    Number observed:  10

  15. Hoatzin

    Number observed:  42

    Details

    No fewer than 28 seen, and more heard at almost every location that held visible ones. Sometimes it sounded like there were more hidden than were visible, but most of the time it was unknowable, or sounded like fewer.

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  16. Maguari Stork

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Singles flying over the river in quick succession

  17. Neotropic Cormorant

    Number observed:  1

  18. Striated Heron

    Number observed:  1

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  19. Western Cattle-Egret

    Number observed:  5

  20. Great Egret

    Number observed:  2

  21. Turkey Vulture (Tropical)

    Number observed:  3

    Details

    Seen well enough to ID to subspecies group

  22. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

    Number observed:  3

  23. Osprey

    Number observed:  1

  24. Long-winged Harrier

    Number observed:  2

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  25. Savanna Hawk

    Number observed:  1

  26. Gray-lined Hawk

    Number observed:  2

  27. Ringed Kingfisher

    Number observed:  3

    Breeding & Behavior Code:

    C Courtship, Display, or Copulation (Probable)

  28. Amazon Kingfisher

    Number observed:  1

  29. Green Kingfisher

    Number observed:  1

  30. Green-tailed Jacamar

    Number observed:  5

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  31. White-bellied Piculet

    Number observed:  3

  32. Ringed Woodpecker

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    **locally very rare. First eBird record for the Upper Mahaica. Heard and IDed by MB and JC, and then we were able to see and better document it via playback. Photos, video, audio.

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  33. Laughing Falcon

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Heard only, distant

  34. Yellow-headed Caracara

    Number observed:  4

  35. Brown-throated Parakeet

    Number observed:  2

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  36. Black-crested Antshrike

    Number observed:  3

    Details

    Excellent views of a pair and then a male

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  37. Barred Antshrike

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Heard only

  38. Silvered Antbird

    Number observed:  4

  39. Straight-billed Woodcreeper

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Heard

  40. Yellow-chinned Spinetail

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Heard

  41. Spotted Tody-Flycatcher

    Number observed:  2

  42. Common Tody-Flycatcher

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Heard

  43. Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet

    Number observed:  1

  44. Mouse-colored Tyrannulet

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Heard

  45. Yellow-bellied Elaenia

    Number observed:  3

  46. Pied Water-Tyrant

    Number observed:  1

  47. Short-crested Flycatcher

    Number observed:  4

  48. Great Kiskadee

    Number observed:  30

  49. Rusty-margined Flycatcher

    Number observed:  5

  50. Tropical Kingbird

    Number observed:  8

  51. Fork-tailed Flycatcher

    Number observed:  2

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  52. Ashy-headed Greenlet

    Number observed:  3

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  53. Black-capped Donacobius

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Two vocalizing early on in the boat ride, one of which was seen nicely

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  54. White-winged Swallow

    Number observed:  12

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  55. Gray-breasted Martin

    Number observed:  6

  56. Barn Swallow

    Number observed:  20

  57. Southern House Wren

    Number observed:  4

  58. Buff-breasted Wren

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Heard

  59. Tropical Mockingbird

    Number observed:  6

  60. Pale-breasted Thrush

    Number observed:  5

  61. Red-breasted Meadowlark

    Number observed:  4

  62. Yellow Oriole

    Number observed:  7

  63. Shiny Cowbird

    Number observed:  10

  64. Yellow-hooded Blackbird

    Number observed:  5

    Details

    Seen a couple of times, perhaps the same group of 5 working its way slowly down the river

  65. Masked Yellowthroat

    Number observed:  1

  66. Yellow Warbler

    Number observed:  1

  67. Red-capped Cardinal

    Number observed:  4

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  68. Silver-beaked Tanager

    Number observed:  3

  69. Blue-gray Tanager

    Number observed:  8

  70. Palm Tanager

    Number observed:  15

  71. Blue-black Grassquit

    Number observed:  2

  72. Wing-barred Seedeater

    Number observed:  10

  73. Olive-gray Saltator

    Number observed:  2
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