Birds of Rio San Juan Nicaragua, Montecristo Wildlife Refuge lodge

Birding Montecristo River Lodge

We at the Eco Lodge started observing the amazing world of birding, a few year ago, thanks to Mrs. Willow
Zuchowski a wonderful lady, author of the book Tropical Plants of Costa Rica. That on her visit to our lodge,
she gave us as gift the book “The Birds of Costa Rica” by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean.

We knew that in our lodge inhabit a great variety of birds, but we never try to identify them before, because
we did not have any guide as a tool.

I’m Alfonso Agustin Llanes the owner of the Lodge, and by now I have gained the basic skill to identify the
birds around our Lodge. I started my birds list, listing only the birds I identify for sure. I still have dough
when identifying the small seedeaters, warblers, flycatchers and the like.

My first list was identified between August and October of 2008. Birds name in red were identified between
October and November 2008. Birds in blue identified by Sylvia and Bela Babus on their vacation December
2008, birds in Brown added up to April of 2009, birds in bold blue up to October 2009, birds in bold brown
up to January 2010, and birds in bold black uot yo march 1, 2010.

We ask our birds friends to help us identify and correct us if we have made mistake in naming the birds in my
pictures. I’m trying to make a picture/guide/log of the birds around our place. It will be called: The Birds of
Montecristo” or the Birds of Rio San Juan, Nicaragua

Please enjoy and respect nature while traveling, and try to go green.

Best Regards,

Agustin Llanes

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Masked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Gray-headed Chacchalaca
Brown Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant
Anhinga
Jabiru
Wood Stork
Rufescent Tiger-Heron
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
Pinnated Bitterm
Little Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Roseate Spoonbill
White Ibis
Green Ibis
Black Vulture
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
Turkey Vulture
King Vulture
Osprey
Black-collared Hawk
Hook-billed Kite
Swallow-tailed Kite
White-tailed Kite
Gray Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
Great Black-Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Crested Caracara
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
Wattled Jacana
Northern Jacana
Sungrebe
Limpkin
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Brown Noddy
Rock Pigeon
Pale-vented Pigeon
Short-billed Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Ruddy Ground-Dove
Blue Ground-Dove
Crimson-fronted Parakeet
Olive-throated Parakeet
Orange Chinned Parakeet
Brown-hooded Parrot
Great Green Macaw
Scarlet Macaw
Red-lored Parrot
Mealy Parrot
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Squirrel Cuckoo
Common Pauraque
Stripe-throated Hermit
Long-billet Hermit
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
Canivet's Emerald
Hummingbirds
Blue-tailed Hummingbird
Rofous-tailed Hummingbird
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Black-headed Trogon
Violaceous Trogon
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Violaceous Trogon
Ringed kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher
Amazon Kingfisher
Chesnut-mandibled Toucan
Collared Aracari
Black-cheeked Woodpecker
Golden-olive Woodpecker
Olivaceous Piculet
Cinnamon Woodpecker
Lineated Woodpecker
Northerm Barred-Woodcreeper
Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Slaty Antwren
Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
Yellow Tyrannulet
Yellow-olive Flycatcher
Common Tody-Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Tropical Pewee
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Golden-bellied Flycatcher
White-ringed Flycatcher
Social Flycatcher
Rofous Piha
Masked Tityra
Snowy Cotinga
Red-capped Manakin
White-throated Magpie-Jay
Bank Swallow
Clay-colored Robin
Bananaquit
white-shouldered Tanager
Tawny-crested Tanager
Summer Tanager
Passerini’s/Cherrie’s Tanager
Golden-hooded Tanager
Blue-Gray Tanager
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Nicaraguan Seed-Finch
Variable Seedeater
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater
Blue-black Grassquit
Black-striped Sparrow
Blue-black Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Melodious Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Nicaraguan Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Giant Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Montezuma Oropendola