Close to 500 birds live in the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Besides coastal areas, there are a lot of varied habitats in the country, including dry forests, mangroves, moist forests, and xeric shrublands. These diverse environments provide a home to the various avifauna living here.
Trinidad and Tobago has two national birds – the Scarlet Ibis and the Rufous-vented Chachalaca. Other notable avian species include the Trinidad Motmot, the Blue-crowned Motmot, and the Red-capped Cardinal.
List of Common Birds Found in Trinidad and Tobago
Native Birds
- Agami Heron
- Anhinga
- Bananaquit
- Band-rumped Swift
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Bare-eyed Robin
- Bare-eyed Thrush
- Barred Antshrike
- Bearded Bellbird
- Bicolored Conebill
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
- Black-crested Antshrike
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Black-faced Antthrush
- Black-faced Grassquit
- Black Hawk-eagle
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Black-throated Mango
- Blue-and-yellow Macaw
- Blue-backed Manakin
- Blue-black Grassquit
- Blue-chinned Sapphire
- Blue-crowned Motmot
- Blue-crowned Parakeet
- Blue-gray Tanager
- Blue Ground Dove
- Blue-headed Parrot
- Blue-tailed Emerald
- Boat-billed Flycatcher
- Boat-billed Heron
- Brown-crested Flycatcher
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Violetear
- Carib Grackle
- Channel-billed Toucan
- Chestnut-bellied Seed-finch
- Chestnut Woodpecker
- Cinnamon Becard
- Cocoa Thrush
- Collared Gnatwren
- Collared Trogon
- Common Black-hawk
- Common Pauraque
- Copper-rumped Hummingbird
- Crested Bobwhite
- Crested Oropendola
- Double-toothed Kite
- Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Fork-tailed Palm-swift
- Golden-fronted Greenlet
- Golden-headed Manakin
- Golden-olive Woodpecker
- Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
- Gray Hawk
- Gray-headed Kite
- Grayish Saltator
- Gray Kingbird
- Great Black Hawk
- Great Egret
- Greater Ani
- Great Kiskadee
- Green-backed Trogon
- Green Hermit
- Green Heron
- Green Honeycreeper
- Green Kingfisher
- Green-rumped Parrotlet
- Green-throated Mango
- Guianan Trogon
- House Wren
- Least Bittern
- Lineated Woodpecker
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Tinamou
- Long-billed Gnatwren
- Long-billed Starthroat
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Maguari Stork
- Nacunda Nighthawk
- Northern Scrub-flycatcher
- Oilbird
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-winged Parrot
- Paint-billed Crake
- Palm Tanager
- Pearl Kite
- Pearly-eyed Thrasher
- Pied Puffbird
- Pied Water-tyrant
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper
- Purple Honeycreeper
- Red-bellied Macaw
- Red-breasted Blackbird
- Red-capped Cardinal
- Red-crowned Ant-tanager
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-legged Honeycreeper
- Ringed Kingfisher
- Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
- Ruddy Ground Dove
- Rufous-breasted Hermit
- Rufous Crab Hawk
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar
- Rufous-vented Chachalaca
- Saffron Finch
- Savanna Hawk
- Scaled Pigeon
- Scarlet Ibis
- Shiny Cowbird
- Short-tailed Nighthawk
- Silver-beaked Tanager
- Silvered Antbird
- Smooth-billed Ani
- Snowy Egret
- Southern Lapwing
- Speckled Tanager
- Spectacled Thrush
- Spotted Rail
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper
- Stripe-breasted Spinetail
- Trinidad Euphonia
- Trinidad Motmot
- Trinidad Piping Guan
- Tropical Kingbird
- Tropical Mockingbird
- Tropical Pewee
- Tufted Coquette
- Violaceous Euphonia
- Violaceous Trogon
- White-chested Emerald
- White-flanked Antwren
- White-fringed Antwren
- White Hawk
- White-lined Tanager
- White-necked Jacobin
- White-tailed Sabrewing
- White-throated Toucan
- White-vented Euphonia
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia
- Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
- Yellow-chinned Spinetail
- Yellow-green Vireo
- Yellow-headed Caracara
- Yellow-legged Thrush
- Yellow Oriole
- Yellow-rumped Cacique
- Yellow Warbler
- Zone-tailed Hawk
Non-native Birds
- Common Waxbill
- House Sparrow
- Rock Pigeon
- Tricolored Munia
- Village Weaver
Some of the best places to go birding in Trinidad and Tobago include Asa Wright Nature Centre, Caroni Bird Sanctuary, and Yerette Hummingbird Sanctuary. The peak birding season in Trinidad and Tobago is generally during the dry season, which spans from December to May.
