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Birds of Iwokrama

 

Canopy Walkway Birds

 

Birds of Iwokrama

Guyana has an impressive list of over 800 species of birds and the Iwokrama Forest can boast to being home to about 500 species.  With further studies this list is expected to exceed 600 species.  Iwokrama has relatively high densities of larger frugivorous birds such as cracids, cotingas and parrots as compared to other forested areas in the Guiana Shield or Amazonia.

The walkway allows observations of the birdlife in the middle and upper canopy and views across the top of the canopy from the highest platforms.  If you overnight at the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway Camp or arrive early you can enjoy the dawn chorus, as the forest awakens.  The late afternoon is another busy birding period as the day cools and birds journey back to their roosts.

A species list for the walkway is only in preliminary stages but already 134 species have been recorded, but the broader Iwokrama Bird List will give you idea what to expect. 

Click on the side bar to view the current Iwokrama Canopy Walkway bird list. 
Click HERE to see a Research Report on the Birds of the Iwokrama Forest.

Some of the key species found in the Iwokrama Forest are:

Harpy Eagle
Harpia harpyja

Black-faced Hawk
Leucopternis melanops

Crestless Curassow
Mitu tomentosa

Black Curassow
Crax alector

Gray-winged Trumpeter
Psophia crepitans

Blue-cheeked Amazon
Amazona dufresniana

Red-fan Parrot
Deroptyus accipitrinus

Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo
Neomorphus rufipennis

White-winged Potoo
Nyctibius leucopterus

Racket-tailed Coquette
Discosura longicauda

Crimson Topaz
Topaza pella

Guiana Toucanet
Toucanet Selenidera culik

Red-billed Woodcreeper
Woodcreeper Hylexetastes perrottii

Black-throated Antshrike
Antshrike Frederickena viridis

Wing-banded
Antbird Myrmornis torquata

Olive-green Tyrannulet
Phylloscartes virescens

Dusky Purpletuft
Iodopleura fusca

Crimson Fruitcrow
Haematoderus militaris

Capuchinbird
Perissocephalus tricolor

Guianan Red-Cotinga
Phoenicircus carnifex

Black-collared Swallow
Atticora melanoleuca

Guianan Gnatcatcher
Polioptila guianensis

Blue-backed Tanager
Cyanicterus cyanicterus

Red-and-black Grosbeak
Periporphyrus erythromelas

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Last modified: 06/30/05