Honduras bird checklist

798 bird species in 82 families have been recorded in Honduras, according to eBird; about 590 of them are seen regularly, and the rest are rarities, vagrants and escaped or introduced birds. Download the full list as a PDF, or tick birds off on your phone, with counts and notes, even without signal.

Species data: eBird.org, updated · How these lists are made

The most common birds in Honduras right now

  1. 1Snowy Egret
  2. 2Magnificent Frigatebird
  3. 3Barn Swallow
  4. 4Eastern Kingbird
  5. 5Brown Pelican
  6. 6Turkey Vulture
  7. 7Great-tailed Grackle
  8. 8Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  9. 9Western Cattle-Egret
  10. 10Orchard Oriole
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Honduras bird checklist

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Tinamous

  • Great Tinamou
  • Little Tinamou
  • Thicket Tinamou
  • Slaty-breasted Tinamou

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • Snow Goose
  • Brant
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Cinnamon Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Gadwall
  • American Wigeon
  • Mallard
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Canvasback
  • Redhead
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Masked Duck
  • Ruddy Duck

Guans, Chachalacas, and Curassows

  • Highland Guan
  • Crested Guan
  • Great Curassow
  • Plain Chachalaca
  • White-bellied Chachalaca
  • Gray-headed Chachalaca

Guineafowl

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

New World Quail

  • Tawny-faced Quail
  • Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge
  • Black-throated Bobwhite
  • Spot-bellied Bobwhite
  • Ocellated Quail
  • Singing Quail
  • Black-eared Wood-Quail
  • Spotted Wood-Quail

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Wild Turkey
  • Ocellated Turkey
  • Indian Peafowl
  • Red Junglefowl

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Pale-vented Pigeon
  • Scaled Pigeon
  • White-crowned Pigeon
  • Red-billed Pigeon
  • Band-tailed Pigeon
  • Short-billed Pigeon
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • African Collared-Dove
  • Inca Dove
  • Common Ground Dove
  • Plain-breasted Ground Dove
  • Ruddy Ground Dove
  • Blue Ground Dove
  • Maroon-chested Ground Dove
  • Ruddy Quail-Dove
  • Violaceous Quail-Dove
  • White-tipped Dove
  • Caribbean Dove
  • Gray-chested Dove
  • Gray-headed Dove
  • White-faced Quail-Dove
  • White-winged Dove
  • Mourning Dove

Cuckoos

  • Smooth-billed Ani
  • Groove-billed Ani
  • Striped Cuckoo
  • Pheasant Cuckoo
  • Lesser Ground-Cuckoo
  • Lesser Roadrunner
  • Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo
  • Common Squirrel-Cuckoo
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Mangrove Cuckoo
  • Black-billed Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Lesser Nighthawk
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Antillean Nighthawk
  • Short-tailed Nighthawk
  • Common Pauraque
  • Spot-tailed Nightjar
  • Ocellated Poorwill
  • Chuck-will's-widow
  • Yucatan Nightjar
  • Buff-collared Nightjar
  • Eastern Whip-poor-will
  • Mexican Whip-poor-will

Potoos

  • Great Potoo
  • Northern Potoo

Swifts

  • Black Swift
  • White-chinned Swift
  • Chestnut-collared Swift
  • White-collared Swift
  • Gray-rumped Swift
  • Chimney Swift
  • Vaux's Swift
  • White-throated Swift
  • Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
  • Great Swallow-tailed Swift

Hummingbirds

  • White-necked Jacobin
  • Bronzy Hermit
  • Band-tailed Barbthroat
  • Long-billed Hermit
  • Stripe-throated Hermit
  • Brown Violetear
  • Mexican Violetear
  • Purple-crowned Fairy
  • Green-breasted Mango
  • Black-crested Coquette
  • Rivoli's Hummingbird
  • Long-billed Starthroat
  • Plain-capped Starthroat
  • Green-throated Mountain-gem
  • Green-breasted Mountain-gem
  • Amethyst-throated Mountain-gem
  • Garnet-throated Hummingbird
  • Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird
  • Slender Sheartail
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  • Wine-throated Hummingbird
  • Canivet's Emerald
  • White-eared Hummingbird
  • Wedge-tailed Sabrewing
  • Violet-headed Hummingbird
  • Emerald-chinned Hummingbird
  • Violet Sabrewing
  • Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
  • Crowned Woodnymph
  • Snowcap
  • Stripe-tailed Hummingbird
  • Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
  • Azure-crowned Hummingbird
  • Blue-vented Hummingbird
  • Berylline Hummingbird
  • Blue-tailed Hummingbird
  • Cinnamon Hummingbird
  • Buff-bellied Hummingbird
  • Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
  • Honduran Emerald
  • Blue-chested Hummingbird
  • White-bellied Emerald
  • Blue-throated Goldentail

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Mangrove Rail
  • Spotted Rail
  • Uniform Crake
  • Rufous-necked Wood-Rail
  • Russet-naped Wood-Rail
  • Sora
  • Common Gallinule
  • American Coot
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Yellow-breasted Crake
  • Ruddy Crake
  • White-throated Crake
  • Gray-breasted Crake
  • Black Rail

Finfoots

  • Sungrebe

Limpkin

  • Limpkin

Thick-knees

  • Double-striped Thick-knee

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-necked Stilt
  • American Avocet

Oystercatchers

  • American Oystercatcher

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • American Golden-Plover
  • Killdeer
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Piping Plover
  • Southern Lapwing
  • Wilson's Plover
  • Collared Plover
  • Snowy Plover

Jacanas

  • Northern Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Hudsonian Whimbrel
  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Willet
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Red Knot
  • Surfbird
  • Stilt Sandpiper
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • Baird's Sandpiper
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Long-tailed Jaeger
  • Parasitic Jaeger
  • Pomarine Jaeger

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Sabine's Gull
  • Bonaparte's Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Franklin's Gull
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Western Gull
  • Kelp Gull
  • American Herring Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • California Gull
  • Black Skimmer
  • Brown Noddy
  • Black Noddy
  • Sooty Tern
  • Bridled Tern
  • Least Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Caspian Tern
  • Black Tern
  • Forster's Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Roseate Tern
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Elegant Tern
  • Royal Tern

Flamingos

  • American Flamingo

Grebes

  • Least Grebe
  • Pied-billed Grebe

Sunbittern

  • Sunbittern

Tropicbirds

  • White-tailed Tropicbird

Northern Storm-Petrels

  • Leach's Storm-Petrel
  • Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel
  • Black Storm-Petrel
  • Least Storm-Petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Cory's Shearwater
  • Great Shearwater
  • Sooty Shearwater
  • Sargasso Shearwater

Storks

  • Jabiru
  • Wood Stork

Frigatebirds

  • Magnificent Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Red-footed Booby
  • Brown Booby
  • Cocos Booby
  • Masked Booby
  • Blue-footed Booby

Anhingas

  • Anhinga

Cormorants and Shags

  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • Neotropic Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • White Ibis
  • Glossy Ibis
  • White-faced Ibis
  • Green Ibis
  • Roseate Spoonbill

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Rufescent Tiger-Heron
  • Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
  • Fasciated Tiger-Heron
  • Boat-billed Heron
  • Agami Heron
  • American Bittern
  • Pinnated Bittern
  • Least Bittern
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Reddish Egret
  • Snowy Egret
  • Green Heron
  • Western Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Great Blue Heron

Pelicans

  • American White Pelican
  • Brown Pelican

New World Vultures

  • King Vulture
  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Pearl Kite
  • White-tailed Kite
  • Hook-billed Kite
  • Gray-headed Kite
  • Swallow-tailed Kite
  • Black Hawk-Eagle
  • Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle
  • Ornate Hawk-Eagle
  • Crested Eagle
  • Harpy Eagle
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Bicolored Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Northern Harrier
  • Tiny Hawk
  • Double-toothed Kite
  • Mississippi Kite
  • Plumbeous Kite
  • Crane Hawk
  • Black-collared Hawk
  • Snail Kite
  • Common Black Hawk
  • Great Black Hawk
  • Solitary Eagle
  • Roadside Hawk
  • Harris's Hawk
  • White-tailed Hawk
  • White Hawk
  • Semiplumbeous Hawk
  • Gray Hawk
  • Broad-winged Hawk
  • Zone-tailed Hawk
  • Short-tailed Hawk
  • Swainson's Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk

Barn-Owls

  • American Barn Owl

Owls

  • Whiskered Screech-Owl
  • Middle American Screech-Owl
  • Pacific Screech-Owl
  • Crested Owl
  • Spectacled Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Northern Pygmy-Owl
  • Central American Pygmy-Owl
  • Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Mottled Owl
  • Black-and-white Owl
  • Fulvous Owl
  • Long-eared Owl
  • Striped Owl
  • Stygian Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Unspotted Saw-whet Owl

Trogons

  • Resplendent Quetzal
  • Slaty-tailed Trogon
  • Black-headed Trogon
  • Gartered Violaceous Trogon
  • Graceful Black-throated Trogon
  • Elegant Trogon
  • Mountain Trogon
  • Collared Trogon

Motmots

  • Tody Motmot
  • Blue-throated Motmot
  • Lesson's Motmot
  • Rufous Motmot
  • Keel-billed Motmot
  • Broad-billed Motmot
  • Turquoise-browed Motmot

Kingfishers

  • Ringed Kingfisher
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Amazon Kingfisher
  • American Pygmy Kingfisher
  • Green Kingfisher
  • Green-and-rufous Kingfisher

Puffbirds

  • White-necked Puffbird
  • White-whiskered Puffbird
  • White-fronted Nunbird

Jacamars

  • Rufous-tailed Jacamar
  • Great Jacamar

Toucans

  • Northern Emerald-Toucanet
  • Collared Aracari
  • Yellow-eared Toucanet
  • Yellow-throated Toucan
  • Keel-billed Toucan

Woodpeckers

  • Olivaceous Piculet
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • Acorn Woodpecker
  • Black-cheeked Woodpecker
  • Yucatan Woodpecker
  • Hoffmann's Woodpecker
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  • Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Smoky-brown Woodpecker
  • Pale-billed Woodpecker
  • Lineated Woodpecker
  • Chestnut-colored Woodpecker
  • Rufous-winged Woodpecker
  • Golden-olive Woodpecker
  • Guatemalan Flicker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Laughing Falcon
  • Collared Forest-Falcon
  • Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon
  • Barred Forest-Falcon
  • Crested Caracara
  • Red-throated Caracara
  • Yellow-headed Caracara
  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Aplomado Falcon
  • Bat Falcon
  • Orange-breasted Falcon
  • Peregrine Falcon

Old World Parrots

  • Budgerigar
  • Rosy-faced Lovebird

New World and African Parrots

  • Barred Parakeet
  • Orange-chinned Parakeet
  • Brown-hooded Parrot
  • White-crowned Parrot
  • Red-lored Amazon
  • Yellow-naped Amazon
  • Yellow-headed Amazon
  • White-fronted Amazon
  • Yellow-lored Amazon
  • Mealy Amazon
  • Olive-throated Parakeet
  • Orange-fronted Parakeet
  • Military Macaw
  • Great Green Macaw
  • Scarlet Macaw
  • Green Parakeet
  • Pacific Parakeet
  • Crimson-fronted Parakeet

Typical Antbirds

  • Fasciated Antshrike
  • Great Antshrike
  • Barred Antshrike
  • Black-crowned Antshrike
  • Russet Antshrike
  • Plain Antvireo
  • Streak-crowned Antvireo
  • Checker-throated Stipplethroat
  • White-flanked Antwren
  • Slaty Antwren
  • Dot-winged Antwren
  • Dusky Antbird
  • Bare-crowned Antbird
  • Chestnut-backed Antbird
  • Wing-banded Antbird
  • Bicolored Antbird
  • Spotted Antbird
  • Ocellated Antbird

Antpittas

  • Scaled Antpitta
  • Streak-chested Antpitta
  • Thicket Antpitta

Antthrushes

  • Mayan Antthrush
  • Black-faced Antthrush

Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers

  • Middle American Leaftosser
  • Scaly-throated Leaftosser
  • Olivaceous Woodcreeper
  • Piping Long-tailed Woodcreeper
  • Ruddy Woodcreeper
  • Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
  • Plain-brown Woodcreeper
  • Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
  • Northern Barred-Woodcreeper
  • Black-banded Woodcreeper
  • Strong-billed Woodcreeper
  • Cocoa Woodcreeper
  • Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
  • Spotted Woodcreeper
  • Streak-headed Woodcreeper
  • Spot-crowned Woodcreeper
  • Northern Plain-Xenops
  • Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner
  • Ruddy Foliage-gleaner
  • Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner
  • Western Woodhaunter
  • Slaty Spinetail
  • Rufous-breasted Spinetail

Manakins

  • Long-tailed Manakin
  • White-ruffed Manakin
  • White-collared Manakin
  • Red-capped Manakin

Cotingas

  • Lovely Cotinga
  • Rufous Piha
  • Three-wattled Bellbird
  • Snowy Cotinga

Tityras and Allies

  • Black-crowned Tityra
  • Masked Tityra
  • Northern Schiffornis
  • Speckled Mourner
  • Cinnamon Becard
  • White-winged Becard
  • Gray-collared Becard
  • Rose-throated Becard

Royal Flycatchers and Allies

  • Tropical Royal Flycatcher
  • Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
  • Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher

Tyrant Flycatchers

  • Gray-headed Piprites
  • Stub-tailed Spadebill
  • Golden-crowned Spadebill
  • Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
  • Sepia-capped Flycatcher
  • Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant
  • Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant
  • Northern Bentbill
  • Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher
  • Common Tody-Flycatcher
  • Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher
  • Eye-ringed Flatbill
  • Yellow-olive Flatbill
  • Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
  • Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
  • Yellow Tyrannulet
  • Greenish Elaenia
  • Yellow-bellied Elaenia
  • Mountain Elaenia
  • Guatemalan Tyrannulet
  • Mistletoe Tyrannulet
  • Tawny-chested Flycatcher
  • Tufted Flycatcher
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Greater Pewee
  • Western Wood-Pewee
  • Northern Tropical Pewee
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • Alder Flycatcher
  • Willow Flycatcher
  • White-throated Flycatcher
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Hammond's Flycatcher
  • Yellowish Flycatcher
  • Buff-breasted Flycatcher
  • Black Phoebe
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Long-tailed Tyrant
  • Bright-rumped Attila
  • Rufous Mourner
  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher
  • Ash-throated Flycatcher
  • Nutting's Flycatcher
  • Salvadoran Flycatcher
  • Great Crested Flycatcher
  • Brown-crested Flycatcher
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Boat-billed Flycatcher
  • Social Flycatcher
  • Gray-capped Flycatcher
  • White-ringed Flycatcher
  • Streaked Flycatcher
  • Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
  • Piratic Flycatcher
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Couch's Kingbird
  • Cassin's Kingbird
  • Western Kingbird
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Gray Kingbird
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis

  • Rufous-browed Peppershrike
  • Green Shrike-Vireo
  • Ochre-crowned Greenlet
  • Lesser Greenlet
  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Mangrove Vireo
  • Bell's Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Blue-headed Vireo
  • Plumbeous Vireo
  • Philadelphia Vireo
  • Eastern Warbling Vireo
  • Brown-capped Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Yellow-green Vireo
  • Black-whiskered Vireo
  • Yucatan Vireo

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Black-throated Jay
  • Azure-hooded Jay
  • White-throated Magpie-Jay
  • Brown Jay
  • Green Jay
  • Bushy-crested Jay
  • Steller's Jay
  • Unicolored Jay
  • Common Raven

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Tree Swallow
  • Mangrove Swallow
  • Violet-green Swallow
  • Purple Martin
  • Sinaloa Martin
  • Gray-breasted Martin
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Southern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Black-capped Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Cave Swallow

Treecreepers

  • Brown Creeper

Gnatcatchers

  • Long-billed Gnatwren
  • White-browed Gnatcatcher
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • White-lored Gnatcatcher

Wrens

  • Rock Wren
  • Nightingale Wren
  • Southern House Wren
  • Rufous-browed Wren
  • Grass Wren
  • Carolina Wren
  • Band-backed Wren
  • Rufous-backed Wren
  • Spot-breasted Wren
  • Black-throated Wren
  • Banded Wren
  • Rufous-and-white Wren
  • Stripe-breasted Wren
  • Cabanis's Wren
  • Bay Wren
  • White-bellied Wren
  • White-breasted Wood-Wren
  • Gray-breasted Wood-Wren
  • Song Wren

Dippers

  • American Dipper

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

  • Blue-and-white Mockingbird
  • Black Catbird
  • Gray Catbird
  • Tropical Mockingbird
  • Northern Mockingbird

Thrushes and Allies

  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Brown-backed Solitaire
  • Slate-colored Solitaire
  • Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
  • Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush
  • Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
  • Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush
  • Veery
  • Gray-cheeked Thrush
  • Swainson's Thrush
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Wood Thrush
  • Western Red-legged Thrush
  • Black Thrush
  • Rufous-collared Robin
  • Mountain Thrush
  • White-throated Thrush
  • Clay-colored Thrush

Waxwings

  • Cedar Waxwing

Olive Warbler

  • Olive Warbler

Waxbills and Allies

  • Scaly-breasted Munia
  • Tricolored Munia

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • American Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Elegant Euphonia
  • Blue-crowned Chlorophonia
  • Scrub Euphonia
  • Yellow-crowned Euphonia
  • White-vented Euphonia
  • Yellow-throated Euphonia
  • Olive-backed Euphonia
  • Hooded Grosbeak
  • Red Crossbill
  • Black-headed Siskin
  • Lesser Goldfinch

New World Sparrows

  • Common Chlorospingus
  • Stripe-headed Sparrow
  • Botteri's Sparrow
  • Grasshopper Sparrow
  • Green-backed Sparrow
  • Black-striped Sparrow
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Clay-colored Sparrow
  • Lark Sparrow
  • Orange-billed Sparrow
  • Chestnut-capped Brushfinch
  • Rufous-collared Sparrow
  • White-crowned Sparrow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Lincoln's Sparrow
  • White-eared Ground-Sparrow
  • White-faced Ground-Sparrow
  • Rusty Sparrow
  • White-naped Brushfinch

Yellow-breasted Chat

  • Yellow-breasted Chat

Troupials and Allies

  • Yellow-headed Blackbird
  • Bobolink
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Yellow-billed Cacique
  • Chestnut-headed Oropendola
  • Montezuma Oropendola
  • Scarlet-rumped Cacique
  • Black-vented Oriole
  • Bar-winged Oriole
  • Black-cowled Oriole
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Yellow-backed Oriole
  • Yellow-tailed Oriole
  • Streak-backed Oriole
  • Spot-breasted Oriole
  • Altamira Oriole
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Bronzed Cowbird
  • Giant Cowbird
  • Melodious Blackbird
  • Great-tailed Grackle

New World Warblers

  • Ovenbird
  • Worm-eating Warbler
  • Louisiana Waterthrush
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Golden-winged Warbler
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Swainson's Warbler
  • Crescent-chested Warbler
  • Tennessee Warbler
  • Orange-crowned Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
  • MacGillivray's Warbler
  • Mourning Warbler
  • Kentucky Warbler
  • Olive-crowned Yellowthroat
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Hooded Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Cerulean Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Tropical Parula
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Bay-breasted Warbler
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Northern Yellow Warbler
  • Mangrove Yellow Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Warbler
  • Vitelline Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Grace's Warbler
  • Townsend's Warbler
  • Hermit Warbler
  • Golden-cheeked Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Fan-tailed Warbler
  • Chestnut-capped Warbler
  • Golden-browed Warbler
  • Golden-crowned Warbler
  • Buff-rumped Warbler
  • Canada Warbler
  • Wilson's Warbler
  • Red-faced Warbler
  • Painted Redstart
  • Slate-throated Redstart

Cardinals and Allies

  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Summer Tanager
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Western Tanager
  • Flame-colored Tanager
  • White-winged Tanager
  • Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
  • Red-throated Ant-Tanager
  • Carmiol's Tanager
  • Black-faced Grosbeak
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • Blue Seedeater
  • Blue-black Grosbeak
  • Blue Bunting
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Painted Bunting
  • Dickcissel

Tanagers and Allies

  • Gray-headed Tanager
  • White-shouldered Tanager
  • Tawny-crested Tanager
  • Black-throated Shrike-Tanager
  • White-throated Shrike-Tanager
  • Crimson-collared Tanager
  • Scarlet-rumped Tanager
  • Blue-gray Tanager
  • Yellow-winged Tanager
  • Golden-hooded Tanager
  • Rufous-winged Tanager
  • Blue Dacnis
  • Shining Honeycreeper
  • Red-legged Honeycreeper
  • Green Honeycreeper
  • Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer
  • Slaty Finch
  • Saffron Finch
  • Grassland Yellow-Finch
  • Blue-black Grassquit
  • Ruddy-breasted Seedeater
  • Thick-billed Seed-Finch
  • Nicaraguan Seed-Finch
  • Variable Seedeater
  • Morelet's Seedeater
  • Slate-colored Seedeater
  • Bananaquit
  • Yellow-faced Grassquit
  • Buff-throated Saltator
  • Black-headed Saltator
  • Cinnamon-bellied Saltator
  • Slate-colored Grosbeak

Most common birds in Honduras

Ranked by how recently and how widely each was reported to eBird in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, and whether it is one of Honduras’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. Snowy EgretEgretta thula
  2. Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
  3. Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
  4. Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
  5. Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
  6. Turkey VultureCathartes aura
  7. Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
  8. Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
  9. Western Cattle-EgretArdea ibis
  10. Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
  11. Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
  12. Great EgretArdea alba
  13. Rock PigeonColumba livia
  14. Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
  15. White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
  16. Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
  17. Royal TernThalasseus maximus
  18. Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
  19. Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
  20. Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor

Largest bird families in Honduras

Among its regular birds.

  • Tyrant Flycatchers51
  • New World Warblers43
  • Hummingbirds36
  • Tanagers and Allies24
  • Sandpipers and Allies23
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites22
  • Pigeons and Doves21
  • Troupials and Allies19

Reported in the last 30 days

560 species reported to eBird in Honduras in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

Snowy Egret, Great Kiskadee, Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Tropical Kingbird, Great-tailed Grackle, Laughing Falcon, Common Black Hawk, Magnificent Frigatebird, Morelet's Seedeater, Orchard Oriole, Common Tody-Flycatcher, Magnolia Warbler, Social Flycatcher, Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, Northern Yellow Warbler, Altamira Oriole, Roadside Hawk, Wood Thrush, Southern House Wren, Ivory-billed Woodcreeper, Northern Waterthrush, Osprey, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Yellow-bellied Elaenia, Yellow-breasted Chat, Crested Caracara, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Peregrine Falcon, American Redstart, Giant Cowbird, Inca Dove, Turkey Vulture, Spot-breasted Wren, Brown Pelican, Eastern Kingbird, Brown Jay, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Spotted Sandpiper, Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Orange-fronted Parakeet, …