Birds of Nicaragua

List of Common Birds Found in Nicaragua

Native Birds

• Amazonian Motmot
• Azure-crowned Hummingbird
• Banded Wren
• Band-tailed Barbthroat
• Bare-throated Bellbird
• Bare-throated Tiger-heron
• Barred Antshrike
• Barred Parakeet
• Black-and-white Owl
• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
• Black-bellied Wren
• Black-cheeked Woodpecker
• Black-cowled Oriole
• Black-crowned Tityra
• Black Hawk-eagle
• Black-headed Saltator
• Black-headed Trogon
• Black-necked Stilt
• Black-thighed Grosbeak
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Black-throated Jay
• Black-throated Trogon
• Black Vulture
• Blue-black Grassquit
• Blue-black Grosbeak
• Blue-crowned Motmot
• Blue Dacnis
• Blue-gray Tanager
• Blue-throated Goldentail
• Blue-winged Teal
• Boat-billed Heron
• Brown Pelican
• Canivet’s Emerald
• Chestnut-headed Oropendola
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Cinnamon Becard
• Cinnamon Hummingbird 
• Cinnamon Woodpecker
• Clay-colored Thrush
• Collared Aracari
• Collared Trogon
• Crimson-collared Grosbeak
• Crimson-collared Tanager
• Crimson-fronted Parakeet
• Double-striped Thick-knee
• Fork-tailed Emerald
• Fork-tailed Flycatcher
• Golden-cheeked Woodpecker
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker
• Golden-olive Woodpecker
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Great Green Macaw
• Great Kiskadee 
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Green-breasted Mountain-gem
• Green Kingfisher
• Grey-necked Wood-rail
• Groove-billed Ani
• Inca Dove
• Keel-billed Toucan
• Lance-tailed Manakin
• Laughing Falcon
• Lesser Ground-cuckoo
• Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Lesson’s Motmot
• Lineated woodpecker
• Little Blue Heron
• Long-billed Hermit
• Long-tailed Manakin
• Mangrove Swallow
• Masked Tityra
• Montezuma Oropendola
• Mottled Owl
• Mountain Elaenia
• New World Quail
• Nicaraguan Grackle
• Northern Barred-woodcreeper
• Northern Emerald-toucanet
• Northern Jacana
• Northern Parula
• Northern Potoo
• Northern Scrub-flycatcher
• Northern Waterthrush
• Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
• Olivaceous Woodcreeper
• Olive-backed Euphonia
• Olive Sparrow
• Olive-throated Flycatcher
• Olive-throated Parakeet
• Orange-billed Nightingale-thrush
• Orange-fronted Parakeet
• Pacific Parakeet
• Pale-billed Woodpecker
• Pale-vented Pigeon
• Plain Chachalaca
• Purple-throated Mountaingem
• Red-breasted Meadowlark
• Red-legged Honeycreeper
• Red-lored Amazon
• Resplendent Quetzal
• Roadside Hawk
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Rose-throated Becard
• Rose-throated Tanager
• Ruddy-breasted Seedeater
• Ruddy Ground-dove 
• Ruddy Quail-dove
• Rufous-breasted Spinetail
• Rufous-browed Peppershrike
• Rufous-capped Warbler
• Rufous-naped Wren
• Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 
• Rufous-winged Antwren
• Rufous-winged Woodpecker
• Russet-crowned Motmot
• Scaled Pigeon
• Scarlet Macaw
• Slate-colored Solitaire
• Slaty-tailed Trogon
• Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
• Snowy Egret
• Social Flycatcher
• Southern Lapwing
• Spot-breasted Oriole
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Squirrel Cuckoo
• Stripe-throated Hermit
• Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
• Tropical Kingbird 
• Tropical Mockingbird 
• Turkey Vulture
• Turquoise-browed Motmot
• Vermilion Flycatcher 
• Violet Sabrewing
• White-breasted Wood-wren
• White-collared Seedeater
• White-collared Swift
• White-crowned Parrot
• White-eyed Vireo
• White-fronted Parrot
• White-necked Jacobin
• White-necked Puffbird
• White-tailed Kite
• White-throated Magpie-jay
• White-throated Thrush
• White-vented Euphonia
• White-winged Dove
• Yellow-backed Oriole
• Yellow-bellied Siskin
• Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-crowned Euphonia
• Yellow-crowned Night-heron
• Yellow-headed Caracara
• Yellow-naped Amazon
• Yellow-tailed Oriole
• Yellow-throated Euphonia
• Yellow-throated Toucan
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Yellow Warbler

Non-native Birds

• Eurasian Collared-dove
• House Sparrow
• Rock Pigeon
• Tricolored Munia

Nicaragua offers several birding opportunities, including Montibelli Private Natural Reserve, Mombacho Volcano Nature Reserve, and Isla Juan Venado Wildlife Refuge. The peak birding season in Nicaragua typically falls between November and April, which coincides with the country’s dry season.