List with remarks about the checklist of birds in Suriname.

The species of birds that were included in the checklists on this site have been accounted for in a book "Annotated checklist of the birds of Suriname", a publication of WWF Guianas, written by Otte H. Ottema, Jan Hein Ribot and Arie L. Spaans. It recognises 727 species, with 11 of these species with more than one subspecies. Since the publication in November 2009, new species have been identified for Suriname and added to the list on this site. The checklist, among other things, also gives comments on observations that were not validated, extreme dates for migrants and notes on selected species. The 'Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Suriname' can be ordered via info@vriendenvanstinasu.nl .

Records of species new for Suriname since November 2009. It makes the total now 735. There are distribution maps avalaible for all these birds:

Rusty Tinamou Crypturellus brevirostris Heard and reported by a RAP expedition, headed by Brian O'Shea, in the far south of Suriname, near the Kutari camp in September 2010.
Tepui Parrotlet Nannopsittaca panychlora Trapped by an expedition of the Yale University Peabody Museum with Kristof Zyskowski in April 2010 in the Wilhelmina mountains in the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, CSNR. It was seen every day during his stay there.
Pavonine cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus The characteristic sound was heard well by Brian O'Shea at dawn on the 5th of May 2010 at Werepai in the far south of Suriname. It was heard there again in September. No recording was made. This secretive bird is known from Guyana and French Guiana.
Belted kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon This migrant was seen by two experienced observers in November 2009 to pass by at Weg naar Zee. These two (Carl Beel and Dominiek Plouvier) had no doubt about the identity of the female bird and the second observer knows the bird well from other countries. Known from Guyana and recently from French Guiana.
Strong-billed woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus The sound was taped by a RAP expedition near Kwamalasumutu in the far south of Suriname, headed by Brian O'Shea in September 2010. The bird is known from Guyana and French Guyana.
Short-tailed Antthrush Chamaeza campanisona Trapped by an expedition of the Yale University Peabody Museum with Kristof Zyskowski in April 2010 in the Wilhelmina mountains in the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, CSNR. Also identified on a sound tape from the Tafelberg in December 2005.
Rufous-tailed Tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus Trapped by an expedition of the Yale University Peabody Museum with Kristof Zyskowski in April 2010 in the Wilhelmina mountains in the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, CSNR. A picture of this bird from Suriname
Large-headed Flatbill Ramphotrigon megacephalum Reported by a RAP expedition in the far south of Suriname, headed by Brian O'Shea, in the bamboo near the Kutari camp and near Werepai in September 2010.

Some relevant literature:

Birds of Suriname by F. Haverschmidt and G.F. Mees, 1994, ISBN: 99914-0-029-X

Davis, T.H. Additions to the birds of Suriname. Continental Birdlife 1: 136-146 (1980).

Donahue, P.K. Notes on some little known or previously unrecorded birds of Suriname. Am. Birds 39:229-230 (1985).

Donahue, P.K. and Jan Erik Pierson: Birds of Suriname. An annotated checklist, 1982.

Spaans, A.L. and L. Autar First record of Wilson's phalarope Phalaropus tricolor from Suriname. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 102: 114-115 (1982).

Ottema, O. in Cotinga, Journal of the neotropical bird club, nr 17, 22, 26.

Ottema, Otte H., Jan Hein J.M. Ribot and Arie L. Spaans, Annotated checklist of the birds of Suriname, WWF Guianas November 2009 ISBN: 978-99914-7-022-1

Avifauna of the Easternmost Tepui, Tafelberg in Central Suriname by Kristof Zyskowski, John C.Mittermeier, Otte Ottema, Marko Rakovic,Brian J. O'Shea, Jonas E. Lai, Susan B.Hochgraf, Jorge de León and Kathryn Au. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 52(1):153-180, April 2011

Avifauna of the Sipaliwini Savanna (Suriname) with Insights into Its Biogeographic Affinities by John C.Mittermeier, Kristof Zyskowski, Edward S. Stowe and Jonas E. Lai. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 51(1):97-122, April 2010