Birdwatchers

Common Ground Dove

The Common Ground Dove (Columbina passerina) is a small bird that inhabits the southern United States, parts of Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America.

Blackish Nightjar (Caprimulgus nigrescens) near Atta Lodge, Iwokrama
(Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)
Blackish Nightjar (Caprimulgus nigrescens) near Atta Lodge, Iwokrama (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Blackish Nightjar

Blackish Nightjar (Caprimulgus nigrescens) is a relatively small dark nightjar, well named for its predominantly blackish plumage.

An American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) flaps its wings after bathing at pond in Linden, Guyana (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)
An American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) flaps its wings after bathing at pond in Linden, Guyana (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

American Golden-Plover

The American Golden-Plover can be found in the Arctic tundra from northern Canada  and Alaska.

Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus at Atta Rainforest Lodge, Iwokrama, Guyana (Photo by Kester Clarke http://www.kesterclarke.net)

Wedge-billed Woodcreeper

The Wedge-billed Woodcreeper (Glyphorynchus spirurus) is found in southern Mexico to northern Bolivia, central Brazil and the Guianas.

Coraya Wren (Pheugopedius coraya) at 3Vs in Kuru Kururu (Photo by Kester Clarke http://www.kesterclarke.net)

Coraya Wren

Coraya Wren (Pheugopedius coraya) is widespread in the northern South American lowlands. 

A Yellow Oriole (Icterus nigrogularis) in Georgetown (Photo by Kester Clarke http://www.kesterclarke.net)

Yellow Oriole

The Yellow Oriole (Icterus nigrogularis) is also called the ‘plantain’ and ‘small corn bird’.

Black-chinned Antbird (Hypocnemoides melanopogon) in Rockstone, Essequibo River. (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Black-chinned Antbird

The Black-chinned Antbird can be found in southern South America. Its plumage is generally dark gray above, with white wing covert tips, a black tail with a white tip, a black throat in males, and much paler underparts throughout in females.

Screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans) at Atta Rainforest Lodge, Iwokrama (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Screaming Piha

The Screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans) originally found only in humid forests in South America, is adapting well to human settlement areas like gardens and parks.

Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) on a farm in Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Striped Cuckoo

The Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) is found in open country from Mexico to Trinidad  south Bolivia and Argentina.

Yellow-breasted Flycatcher (Tolmomyias flaviventris) stripping nest material from shrubs in Abary, Mahaica-Berbice. (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Yellow-breasted Flycatcher

The Yellow-breasted Flycatcher (Tolmomyias flaviventris) is distributed, in a wide variety of forest types, across much of northern and central South America, from northern Colombia and Venezuela, as well as in Trinidad and Tobago, south to the Atlantic coastal forests of eastern Brazil.

Bat Falcon (Falco rufigularis) at Mahaicony River, Guyana. (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Bat Falcon

The Bat Falcon (Falco rufigularis) is a resident breeder in Mexico, Central and South America and Trinidad and Tobago.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) at the Kingston Seawall, Georgetown (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Yellow-crowned night heron

The Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)is found in the Americas. The body and back are a smooth grey-blue, with a black scaled pattern on the wings.

Willet (Tringa semipalmata) hunting crustaceans along the mudflats in Ogle, East Coast Demerara, Guyana (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Willet

The Willet (Tringa semipalmata) breeds in North America and the West Indies and winters in southern North America, Central America, the West Indies and South America.

Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) in Kingston, Georgetown (Photo
by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Whimbrel

The Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) is a migratory  species wintering on coasts in Africa, South America, south Asia  into  Australasia and southern North America.

Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) in breeding plumage, in flight at a canal in Enmore Village, Guyana (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Tricolored Heron

The Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) is found in the Gulf states of the United States and northern Mexico south through Central America and the Caribbean to central Brazil and Peru.

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