Birds in Suriname, 5:
Owls, nightjar, hummingbirds, toucans to woodpeckers.Birds in Suriname, 5:
Owls, nightjar, hummingbirds, toucans to woodpeckers.Suriname has some 34 species of hummingbird, of which 30 have their picture here, some 7 toucans (all here) and 19 woodpeckers (18 here). Click on the pictures to find more information. The Oilbird is new for Suriname in 2008, the Burrowing owl was first seen near Zanderij and photographed in 2007 and is also reported from Sipaliwini.
Starting page of 'Birds in Suriname'.
| Owls (10 out of 14) |  |
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| Barn owl | Spectacled owl | Tropical screech-owl | Striped owl | Great horned owl | Burrowing owl NEW(2007) | Mottled owl | |
| Owls, Oilbird, Potoos |  |
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| Amazonian pygmy-owl | Ferruginous pygmy-owl | Oilbird | Common potoo | Great potoo | Long-tailed potoo | ||
| Nighthawks, Nightjars (9 out of 11) |  |
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| Lesser nighthawk | Least nighthawk | Nacunda nighthawk | Pauraque | Blackish nightjar | Spot-tailed nightjar | White-tailed nightjar | |
| Swift, Nightjars |  |
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| Fork-tailed palm-swift | Short-tailed swift | Lesser swallow-tailed swift | White-collared swift | Chapman's swift | Ladder-tailed nightjar | Scissor-tailed nightjar | |
| Hummingbirds (30 out of 34) |  |
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| Rufous-breasted hermit | Little hermit | Straight-billed hermit | Long-tailed hermit | White-tailed barbthroat | Sooty-capped hermit | Reddish hermit | |
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| Rufous-throated sapphire | Ruby-topaz hummningbird | Green-tailed goldenthroat | White-chinned sapphire | Black-throated mango | Green-throated mango | ||
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| White-necked jacobin | Glittering- throated amazilia | Plain-bellied emerald | Tufted coquette | White-tailed goldenthroat | Crimson Topaz | Swallow-tailed hummingbird | |
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| Blue-chinned sapphire | Black-eared fairy | Blue-tailed emerald | Amethyst woodstar | Gray-breasted sabrewing | Fork-tailed woodnymph | Horned sungem | |
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| Copper-tailed hummingbird | Velvet-browed brilliant | Brown violetear | not a bird, but.. | ||||
| Kingfishers (6 out of 6) |  |
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| Ringed kingfisher | Belted kingfisher | Green kingfisher | Pygmy kingfisher | Green-and-rufous kingfisher | Amazon kingfisher | ||
| Trogons (5 out of 5) |  |
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| White-tailed trogon | Violaceus trogon | Collared trogon | Black-tailed trogon | Black-throated trogon | |||
| Jacamars (6 out of 6) |  |
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| Yellow-billed jacamar | Green-tailed jacamar | Paradise jacamar | Great jacamar | Brown jacamar | Bronzy jacamar | ||
| Puffbirds (4 out of 5) |  |
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| White-necked puffbird | Pied puffbird | Spotted puffbird | Collared puffbird | ||||
| Nunbird, Swallow-wing Barbet, Motmot |  |
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| Black nunbird | Swallow-wing | Rusty-breasted nunlet | Black-spotted barbet | Blue-crowned motmot | |||
| Toucans (7 out of 7) |  |
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| White- throated toucan | Toco toucan | Channel-billed toucan | Black-necked aracari | Green aracari | Guianan toucanet | Chestnut-tipped toucanet | |
| Woodpeckers (18 out of 19) |  |
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| Arrowhead piculet | Golden- spangled piculet | White woodpecker | Red-crowned woodpecker | Yellow-tufted woodpecker | Golden-collared woodpecker | ||
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| Red-necked woodpecker | Crimson- crested woodpecker | Ringed woodpecker | Waved woodpecker | Cream- colored woodpecker | Chestnut woodpecker | ||
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| Yellow- throated woodpecker | Golden-olive woodpecker | Lineated woodpecker | Spot- breasted woodpecker | Blood-colored woodpecker | Campo Flicker |