Photo
gallery of 570 birds.
Where
to look for birds in the nature of Suriname
Sounds
of 200+ birds and some videos
Birding hotspots and checklists
for Suriname
Digital
distribution maps for all the birds
(735 since May 2010) in Suriname
Photographs
of Suriname
Nederlandse
versie
Background Some well-known birds from Surinam:
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| Scarlet ibis + video | Harpy eagle + video | Toucan + sound | Egret | Amazon parrot + sound | Seedfinch Twatwa | Picolet Curió Lesser seedfinch + video | Cock of the rock, + sound and video | macaw + video |
The fifty most common birds in Suriname:
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| 1. Silver-beaked tanager + sound | 2. Great kiskadee + sound | 3. Blue-gray tanager | 4. Tropical kingbird | 5. Gray-breasted martin |
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| 6. Rusty-margined flycatcher +sound | 7. House wren + sound | 8.Orange-winged parrot + sound | 9. Bananaquit + sound | 10. Palm tanager |
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| 11. Smooth-billed ani + sound | 12. Black vulture | 13. Ruddy ground-dove | 14. Spotted sandpiper | 15. Striated heron |
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| 16. Tropical mockingbird + sound | 17. Pale-breasted thrush | 18. Wattled jacana | 19. Cattle egret | 20. Osprey |
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| 21. White-throated toucan + sound | 22. Crested oropendola + video +sound | 23. Screaming piha + sound | 24. Ringed kingfisher | 25. Common tody-flycatcher |
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| 26. Yellow-rumped cacique | 27. Yellow-headed caracara | 28. Black-crested antshrike + sound | 29. Yellow-bellied elaenia | 30. Blue-black grassquit +video |
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| 31. Variable seedeater | 32. Channel-billed toucan + sound | 33. Golden-winged parakeet, sound | 34. Pied water tyrant | 35. Yellow-throated spinetail + sound |
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| 36. Greater yellow-headed vulture | 37. White-winged swallow | 38. White-tailed trogon | 39. Barred antshrike + sound | 40. Buff-breasted wren |
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| 41. Gray-fronted dove | 42. . Squirrel cuckoo | 43. Turkey vulture | 44. Snowy egret | 45. Swallow-wing + sound |
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| 46. Roadside hawk | 47. Snail kite | 48. Little blue heron | 49. Spotted tody-flycatcher | 50. Tropical gnatcatcher |
Above are the 50 most common birds of Suriname: They were most cited by birdwatchers in the last 50 years. For the order on this list, more birds of one species on the same day were counted as one observation. Otherwise a bird like the semipalmated sandpiper, which visits the coast each year with millions of birds, would have been number one. All 50 most common birds have their own page on this site and some 520 others also have a page with photo. About 200 birds have their sound on this site. For all 735 birdspecies recognised for Suriname in May 2011 distribution maps for Suriname are available. The number of bird species for Suriname changes because birds new for Suriname are found, or because two old species are 'lumped' into one new species by SACC, an international committee (then we might loose one). A printed annotated checklist of the birds of Suriname, published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), can be obtained via this link.
Suriname is situated in South America and has about 500.000 inhabitants. It shares many of its 735 bird species with Brazil to the south and with Venezuela to the North-West and of course with its two neighbours: Guyana to the west and French Guiana to the east. Suriname is still for the most part covered with unspoiled tropical rainforest. A watershed in the south, covered with savanna and rainforest, separates it from the Amazon Bassin. The west and east frontiers are formed by rivers and to the north is the Atlantic ocean. There are some disputed territories in the south west and the south east.
Photos of 570+ bird species from Suriname
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Last update January 2012, by Jan Hein Ribot. Mail comments or observations to: ribot at nhl.nl