Site Report: Barranquilla Swamp
Pied Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola pica)
Turquoise-winged Parrotlet (Forpus spengeli)
Russet-throated Puffbird (Hypnelus ruficollis)
Bicolored Wren (Campylorhynchus griseus)
Yellow Oriole (Icterus nigrogularis)
Yellow-chinned Spinetail (Certhiaxis cinnamomeus)
Olive-gray Saltator (Saltator olivascens)
Pied Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola pica) - Female
White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala)
Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)
Stripe-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus nuchalis)
Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
Chestnut-winged Chachalaca (Ortalis garrula)
Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris)
Bicolored Conebill (Conirostrum bicolor)
Red-billed Emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni)
Speckled Tree Rat (Pattonomys semivillosus)
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Pied Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola pica)
Turquoise-winged Parrotlet (Forpus spengeli)
Russet-throated Puffbird (Hypnelus ruficollis)
Bicolored Wren (Campylorhynchus griseus)
Yellow Oriole (Icterus nigrogularis)
Yellow-chinned Spinetail (Certhiaxis cinnamomeus)
Olive-gray Saltator (Saltator olivascens)
Pied Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola pica) - Female
White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala)
Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)
Stripe-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus nuchalis)
Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
Chestnut-winged Chachalaca (Ortalis garrula)
Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris)
Bicolored Conebill (Conirostrum bicolor)
Red-billed Emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni)
Speckled Tree Rat (Pattonomys semivillosus)
Swamp
Visits
- 2024-10-09: I was picked up early from the airport hotel, and we stopped at some swamps outside of Barranquilla to see what we could find.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (67 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(67 records)
Class: Birds
(66 records)
- Order: Anseriformes (3 records)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Limpkin
- Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)
- Order: Cuckoos (3 records)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons (4 records)
- Order: Gabuliformes
(1 record)
- Family: Puffbirds
- Russet-throated Puffbird (Hypnelus ruficollis)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
- Family: Osprey
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(1 record)
- Family: Hummingbirds
- Red-billed Emerald (Chlorostilbon gibsoni)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (2 records)
- Order: Owls And Nightjars
(1 record)
- Family: Nighthawks and Nightjars
- Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis)
- Order: Parrots
(2 records)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Brown-throated Parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax)
- Turquoise-winged Parrotlet (Forpus spengeli)
- Order: Pelicans
(12 records)
- Family: Anhingas
- Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus)
- Yellow-headed Caracara (Daptrius chimachima)
- Family: Herons
- Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
- Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Western Cattle Egret (Ardea ibis)
- Striated Heron (Butorides striata)
- Family: Jacanas
- Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
- Order: Perching Birds (27 records)
- Family: New World Warblers
- Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)
- Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
- Yellow-chinned Spinetail (Certhiaxis cinnamomeus)
- Family: Swallows
- Brown-chested Martin (Progne tapera)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Bicolored Conebill (Conirostrum bicolor)
- Blue-gray Tanager (Thraupis episcopus)
- Glaucous Tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa)
- Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola)
- Olive-gray Saltator (Saltator olivascens)
- Family: Typical Antbirds
- Black-crested Antshrike (Sakesphorus canadensis)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Common Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum)
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster)
- Pied Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola pica)
- White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala)
- Cattle Tyrant (Machetornis rixosa)
- Panama Flycatcher (Myiarchus panamensis)
- Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus)
- Gray Kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis)
- Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
- Family: Wrens
- Bicolored Wren (Campylorhynchus griseus)
- Stripe-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus nuchalis)
- Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Plovers
- Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(1 record)
- Family: Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows
- Chestnut-winged Chachalaca (Ortalis garrula)
- Order: Vultures
(2 records)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(2 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula)
- Lineated Woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus)
Class: Mammals
(1 record)
- Order: Rodents
(1 record)
- Family: Spiny Rats, Hutia, and Nutria
- Speckled Tree Rat (Pattonomys semivillosus)