A pet Spix's Guan at Cano Negro. "Pava" is a commonly hunted species and we had one for dinner in Guarinuma.
While not a birding tour I did manage to squeeze in some birding on most days during the trip, June 7 to 23, 1997.
VENEZUELA LOCATION CODES
1 Caracas, June 8 & 22
2 Puerto Ayacucho, mainly June 9,17,21
3 San Juan de Manapiare, Rio Manapiare, Rio Venturari, June 10,
4 Cano Negro, Puerto Union & Tencua, June 11
5 Puerto Union to Manapiare, June 12
6 Rio Orinoco, June 13
7 Ucata, June 14
8 Guarinuma, June 15/16
9 La Esmeralda, June 18/19/20
[Cinerous Tinamou?] - 8 (a sooty colored tinamou flushed from shrubby edge
of open savanna at Guarinuma), 9 ("police whistle" call heard)
[Little Tinamou?] - 5,7 (heard)
Olivaceous Cormorant - 2,3,5,6,9 common
Anhinga - frequent -2,3,5,9
White-necked Heron - frequent - 3,5,9
Great Egret - frequent - 3,9
Snowy Egret - 2,9
Cattle Egret - frequent - 4,8,9
Striated Heron - frequent - 2,3,4,7,
Whistling Heron - one seen from plane at San Fernando de Apure
Capped Heron - 2,3,4,5,7
Rufescent Tiger Heron - 5, one immature along Venturari
Green Ibis - 7,8,9
Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 2
Muscovy Duck - 3,5
King Vulture - 5
Black Vulture (zamuro) - 1,2,3,4,5,7,9
Turkey Vulture - 2,3,4,5,7,9
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture - 4,5
Pearl Kite - 2
Swallow-tailed Kite - 2,5
Hook-billed Kite - 3,4
Plumbeous Kite - 3,4,5,9
Snail Kite - one seen from airplane at San Fernando de Apure airport
[Tiny Hawk?] - 2 (not a good view)
White-tailed Hawk - 9 (both light and dark phase birds)
Roadside Hawk - 3,4,9
Black-collared Hawk - 3
Great Black Hawk - 3,5
Black Hawk-Eagle - 5
Crane hawk - 4
Osprey - 3,5,6
Laughing Falcon - 8
Black Caracara - 3,5,6,8,9
Yellow-headed Caracara - 2,6,8
Crested Caracara - 2
Bat Falcon - 4,5
American Kestrel - 2
Rufous-vented Chachalaca - 1
Spix's Guan (pava) - (pets at Cano Negro & Puerto Union,
plus one for dinner at Guarinuma)
Limpkin - 2 (heard)
Gray-winged Trumpeter (grulla) - tame bird at Cano Negro
Purple Gallinule - 2
Sungrebe -3,5 (both along the Manapiare R.)
Double-striped Thick-knee - 2 (airport)
Southern Lapwing - 2,6,8
Wattled Jacana - 2
Paraguayan Snipe - 8
Large-billed Tern - 2,6,8,9
Rock Dove - 1,2
Pale-vented Pigeon - 2,4,5,6,7,9
Ruddy Pigeon - 9 (heard)
Common Ground-Dove - 1,2
Ruddy Cround-Dove - 2,3,4,5,
White-tipped Dove - 1
Gray-fronted Dove - 3,5,9 (mostly heard)
Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (guacamayo) - 9 (pair in flight over savanna at sunset)
Scarlet Macaw - 9
Red-and-Green Macaw - 7,8
Chestnut-fronted Macaw -4,9
Red-shouldered Macaw - 5
Maroon-tailed Parakeet - 3,4
Brown-throated Parakeet - 7,8
Cobalt-winged Parakeet - 8,9
Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet - 9
Black-headed Parrot - 3,8
Blue-headed Parrot - 7,9
Orange-winged Parrot - 8
Yellow-crowned Parrot - 3?
Squirrel Cuckoo - 1,3
Dark-billed Cuckoo - 2 (good view of single bird in marsh by ferry dock)
Striped Cuckoo - 2 (as above)
Greater Ani - 3,5,7,9 (always along river banks)
Smooth-billed Ani - 2,3,5,7,8
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl - 2 (heard)
Least Nighthawk - 8, 9
Sand-colored Nighthawk - (three at dock, San Fernando de Atabapo)
Lesser Nighthawk - 7
Band-tailed Nighthawk - 7,8
Common Potoo - 8 (two heard in evening)
White-collared Swift - 3,5,7
Short-tailed Swift - 9
Vaux's Swift - 1
Gray-rumped Swift - 3,4,5,7,8
Fork-tailed Palm Swift - 2,7,8,9
Dusky-throated Hermit - 4
Reddish Hermit - 4,9
Pale-tailed Barbthroat - 4
Blue-chinned Sapphire - 4,5
Versicolored Hummingbird - 5 (Puerto Union)
Glittering-throated Emerald - 2 (nest at Hotel Amazonas)
Copper-rumped Hummingbird - 1
White-tailed Trogon - 7
Ringed Kingfisher - 3,4,5,6,7,9
Amazon Kingfisher - 3,4,5,6,7,9
Green Kingfisher - 3.4,5
Russet-throated Puffbird - 2
Black Nunbird - 4,5,9
Swallow-wing - 3,4,5,6,9
Green-tailed Jacamar - 4,5,7,9
Black-spotted Barbet - 9
Many-banded Aracari - 4
Yellow-ridged Toucan - 9 (seven in one tree)
Channel-billed Toucan - 4
Couvier's Toucan - 5,7
Scaled Piculet - 1
Golden-spangled Piculet - 8,9
Spot-breasted Woodpecker - 2
Yellow-tufted Woodpecker - 7,
Red-crowned Woodpecker - 1,2
Scale-breasted Woodpecker - 9
Little Woodpecker - 2
Lineated Woodpecker - 2,3,7,9
Crimson-crested Woodpecker - 4,9
Pale-breasted Spinetail - 9
Plain-brown Woodcreeper - 1
Long-billed Woodcreeper - 3,5 (one bird making repeated visits to a cavity
of tree near the boat launch at San Juan de Manapiare)
Great Antshrike - 7
Barred Antshrike - 8
White-fringed Antwren - 7 (Amazonas race)
Streaked/Cherrie's Antwren - 7 (one male in open, flooded swamp)
Spot-backed Antbird - 9
White-headed Marsh-Tyrant - 2
Drab Water-Tyrant - 3,4,5,9
Amazonian Black-Tyrant - 3
Cattle Tyrant - 1
Tropical Kingbird - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
White-throated Kingbird - 9
Fork-tailed Flycatcher - 2,6
Lesser Kiskadee - 7
Great Kiskadee - 1,2
Rusty-margined Flycatcher - 3,5,7
Social Flycatcher - 1
Streaked Flycatcher - 3,4
Piratic Flycatcher - 9
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet - 2
Plain-crested Elaenia - 9
Common Tody-Flycatcher - 2
Painted Tody-Flycatcher - 9
Yellow-olive/Yellow-margined Flycatcher - 4
Yellow-breasted Flycatcher - 5
Screaming Pihas - 9 (heard)
Black-tailed Tityra - 3 (at boat ramp, San Juan de Manapiare)
Bare-necked Fruitcrow - 3,7
Amazonian Umbrellabird - 6 (one on mainland shore and two seen on island
north of San Jose in late afternoon)
Golden-headed Manakin - 9 (several males at lek)
Gray-breasted Martin - 3,7
Blue-and-White Swallow - 1
Southern Rough-winged Swallow - 3,5
White-winged Swallow - 3,4,5,6,7,9
White-banded Swallow - 3,4,5,9
Black-collared Swallow - 8
Violaceous Jay - 3,4,5,9
Azure-naped Jay - 7 (two groups encountered on early morning walk)
Green Jay - 1
Buff-breasted Wren - 2,4,5,7,9
Southern House Wren - 1,2,5
Tropical Gnatcatcher - 5,
Yellow-legged Thrush - 1
Pale-breasted Thrush - 1
Bare-eyed Thrush - 2 (Ian)
Tropical Mockingbird - 2,8
Yellowish Pipit - 8
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Rufous-browned Peppershrike - 2
Masked Yellowthroat - 2 (marsh by ferry dock)
Bananaquit- 2,8
Blue Dacnis - 8,9
Purple Honeycreeper - 9
Rufous-bellied Euphonia - 9
Turquoise Tanager - 3
Burnished--buff Tanager - 8
Blue-gray Tanager - 1,2,7,8,9
Palm Tanager - 2,5,7,8,9
Fulvous-crested Tanager - 9
Silver-beaked Tanager - 4,5,7,8,9
White-lined Tanager - 2
White-shouldered Tanager - 1
Fulvous-heaed Tanager - 1
Black-faced Tanager - 8,9
Magpie Tanager - 5
Buff-throated Saltator - 5,7
Streaked Saltator - 1
Red-capped Cardinal - 2
Blue-black Grassquit - 2,5
Gray Seedeater - 2
Lined Seedeater - 9
Yellow-bellied Seedeater - 2
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater - 1,2,9
Striped-tailed Yellow-Finch - 9 (common on rocky outcrops)
Orange-fronted Yellow-Finch - 2
Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch - 7,9
Grassland Sparrow - 9
Shiny Cowbird - 7
Giant Cowbird - 5
Crested Oropendola - 4,7
Olive Oropendola - 3,4,5 (plus distant large flocks of Green/Olive Oropendolas at 9)
Yellow-rumped Cacique - 2,3,4,5,6,7,9
Carib Grackle - 1
Yellow Oriole - 2
Oriole Blackbird - 2
Moriche Oriole- 9
Gray-winged Trumpeter, Cano Negro
Information last updated : 19 February 1999