Photo
gallery of 500 birds New species for
Suriname in 2010: The Pavonine Cuckoo and in
2009: The Merlin and the Belted
Kingfisher, both migrants.
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
(729 in 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. House wren + sound | 7. Rusty-margined flycatcher +sound | 8.Orange-winged parrot + sound | 9. Bananaquit + sound | 10. Spotted sandpiper |
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| 11. Ruddy ground-dove | 12. Smooth-billed ani + sound | 13. Palm tanager | 14. Black vulture | 15. Striated heron |
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| 16. Osprey | 17. Cattle egret | 18. Wattled jacana | 19. Tropical mockingbird + sound | 20. Screaming piha + sound |
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| 21. Pale-breasted thrush | 22. White-throated toucan + sound | 23. Ringed kingfisher | 24. Crested oropendola + video +sound | 25. Common tody-flycatcher |
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| 26. Yellow-throated spinetail + sound | 27. Pied water tyrant | 28. Yellow-rumped cacique | 29. Golden-winged parakeet, sound | 30. Blue-black grassquit +video |
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| 31. Yellow-headed caracara | 32. Yellow-bellied elaenia | 33. Channel-billed toucan + sound | 34. Greater yellow-headed vulture | 35. Variable seedeater |
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| 36. Black-crested antshrike + sound | 37. Barred antshrike + sound | 38. White-winged swallow | 39. Squirrel cuckoo | 40. White-tailed trogon |
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| 41. Swallow-wing + sound | 42. Gray-fronted dove | 43. Snowy egret | 44. Green oropendola | 45. Swallow-tailed kite |
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| 46. Snail kite | 47. Blue-headed parrot | 48. White-lined tanager | 49. Roadside hawk | 50. Little blue heron |
Above are the 50 most common birds of Suriname: They were most cited by birdwatchers in the last 50 years, as far as I know. 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, wich 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 450 others also have a page with photo. About 170 birds have their sound on this site. For all 729 birdspecies recognised for Suriname in May 2010 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 WWF, can be obtained via this site.
Suriname is situated in South America and has about 500.000 inhabitants. It shares many of its 728 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 500+ bird species from Suriname
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Last update May 2010, by Jan Hein Ribot. Mail comments or observations to: ribot at nhl.nl