Bird list- Colombia, 2007

note- In this list, I do not repeat birds seen in the same location; for example, I see Blue-gray Tanagers and Tropical Kingbirds in great numbers every day in the Casa de Encuentros and other places in Quibdó. But I will repeat species when I seem then in a new place. I do not have many Spanish common names; there is no standard for them, they change from country to country and even within one country. So I have listed the English standard common name, a local name when I have one, a translation into English of the common name when it’s translatable, and the scientific name. The listing will thus be:

English common name

Local Name

Translation

Scientific name

nota- En este listado, no repito aves vistas en el el mismo lugar; por ejemplo, veo a Blue-gray Tanagers (“Azulejos”) y Tropical Kingbirds (“Titiribí”) en cantidades cada día el la Casa de Encuentros y otros lugares en Quibdó. Pero sí repito un especie cuando lo veo en lugar nuevo. Tengo muy pocos nombres comunes en español; no hay reglamento para ellos, cambian de país en país e incluso dentro de un país. Por eso he puesto el nombre común estándar inglés, nombre local cuando lo tengo, traducción cuando está traducible, y nombre científico. La entrada entonces será:

Nombre común inglés

Nombre Local

Traducción

Nombre científico

Authority / Autoridad: Steven L. Hilty and William L. Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia (Princeton, 1986)

El Chocó (there’s a unified list for all of El Chocó following the individual lists)

Casa de Encuentros (where I stay in Quibdó):

American Redstart			Setophaga ruticilla
Bananaquit			Coereba flaveola
Black Vulture	Gallinazo	“big hen”	Coragyps atratus
Black-cheeked Woodpecker			Melanerpes pucherani
Black-throated Mango			Anthrocathorax nigricollis
Blue Ground-Dove			Claravus pretiosa
Blue-Black Grassquit			Volatinia jacarina
Blue-gray Tanager	Azulejo	“Blue tile”	Thraupis episcopus
Blue-headed Parrot			Pionus mentruus
Buff-throated Saltator			Saltator maximus
Common Tody-Flycatcher			Todirostrum cinereum
Crimson-backed Tanager			Ramphocelus dimidiatus
Golden-Hooded Tanager			Tangara larvata
Gray Elenia			Myiopagus caniceps
Great Egret			Casmerodius albus
Green Kingfisher	Martín Pescador	Fishing Martin	Chloroceryle americana
House Wren	cucarachero	cockroach-eater	Troglodytes aedon
Lemon-rumped Tanager			Ramphocelus icteronotus
Little Blue Heron			Florida caerulea
Mourning Warbler			Oporornis philadelphia
Northern Waterthrush			Sieurus noveboracensis
Orange-billed Sparrow			Arremon aurantiirostris
Palm Tanager			Thraupis palmarum
Roadside Hawk			Buteo magnirostris
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird			Amazilia tzacatl
Rusty-margined Flycatcher			Myiozetetes cayanensis
Scaled Pigeon			Columba speciosa
Shiny Cowbird			Molothrus bonaniensis
Smooth-billed Ani	(“Chamón” or “Garrapatero”	tick-eater	Crotophaga ani
Snowy Egret			Egretta thula
Southern Rough-winged Swallow			Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
Spot-breasted Woodpecker			Chrysoptilus punctigula
Spotted Sandpiper			Actitis macularia
Streaked Flycatcher			Myiodynastes maculates
Striated Heron			Butorides striatus
Summer Tanager			Piranga rubra
Thick-Billed Euphonia	Pico Gordo	thick-bill	Euphonia laniirostris
Traill’s Flycatcher *			Empidonx sp.
Tropical Kingbird	Titiribí		Tyrannus melancholicus
Tropical Screech-owl			Otus choliba
Turkey Vulture			Cathartes aura
Variable Seedeater			Sporophil americana
White-tipped Dove			Leptotila verreauxi
Yellow Warbler			Dendroica petechia

* the little buggers just don’t sing here, and you can’t go by habitat either

Elsewhere in the city of Quibdó

Gray-breasted Martin			Progne chalybea
Lesser Seed-Finch			Oryzoborus angolensis
Little Blue Heron			Florida caerulea
Neotropical Cormorant			Phalacrocorax olivaceus
Pale-vented Pigeon			Columba cayennensis
Rock Dove (Rock Pigeon)			Columba livia
Smooth-billed Ani	(“Chamón” or “Garrapatero”	tick-eater	Crotophaga ani
Snowy Egret			Egretta thula
Spotted Sandpiper			Actitis macularia

Elsewhere in the municipio of Quibdó

Gray-breasted Martin

Progne chalybea

In and near El Carmen de Atrato:

Bay Wren			Thryothorus nigricapillus
Black Phoebe			Sayornis nigricans
Black Vulture	Gallinazo		Coragyps atratus
Black Vulture	Gallinazo	“big hen”	Coragyps atratus
Black-billed Thrush			Turdis ignobilis
Blue and White Swallow			Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
Blue-gray Tanager	Azulejo		Thraupis episcopus
Common Tody-Flycatcher			Todirostrum cinereum
Crested Guan	Pavo	“Turkey”	Penelope purpurascens
Flame-rumped Tanager	Toche		Ramphocelus flammigerus
Flame-rumped x Yellow-rumped Tanager hybrid	Toche
Great Egret			Casmerodius albus
House Wren	cucarachero	“Cockroach eater”	Troglodytes aedon
Palm Tanager			Thraupis palmarum
Rock Dove (Rock Pigeon)			Columba livia
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater			Sporphila minuta
Rufous-collard Sparrow	Copetón		Zonotrichia capensis
Rusty-margined Flycatcher			Myiozetetes cayanensis
Smooth-billed Ani	Chamón or Garrapatero		Crotophaga ani
Southern Lapwing	Caravana		Vanellus chilensis
Southern Rough-winged Swallow			Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
Tropical Kingbird	Titiribí		Tyrranus melancholicus
Turkey Vulture			Cathartes aura
White-collared Swift			Streptoprocne zonaris
Yellow-rumped Tanager	Toche		Ramphocelus icteronotos

Río Atrato—Quibdó to Naipipí

Bicolored Hawk	Guaco	Accipiter bicolor
Cocoi Heron		Ardea cocoi
Gray-breasted Martin		Progne chalybea
Great Egret		Casmerodius albus
Laughing Gull		Larus atricilla
Little Blue Heron		Florida caerulea
Neotropical Cormorant		Phalacrocorax olivaceus