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Bird Conservation Region 38: Islas Marias
This checklist includes all bird species found in Bird Conservation Region 38: Islas Marias , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2). If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Bird Conservation Region 38: Islas Marias [map]
Number of globally threatened species: 6
Number of introduced species: 2
Last modified: 2024-08-03
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| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
| Canvasback | Aythya valisineria | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
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| Elegant Quail | Callipepla douglasii | Rare/Accidental |
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| Western Grebe | Aechmophorus occidentalis | |
| Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-billed Pigeon | Patagioenas flavirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| White-tipped Dove | Leptotila verreauxi | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | Rare/Accidental |
| Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura | Rare/Accidental |
| Inca Dove | Columbina inca | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Ground Dove | Columbina talpacoti | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lesser Nighthawk | Chordeiles acutipennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Pauraque | Nyctidromus albicollis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| Broad-billed Hummingbird | Cynanthus latirostris | |
| Cinnamon Hummingbird | Amazilia rutila | Rare/Accidental |
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| Groove-billed Ani | Crotophaga sulcirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | Rare/Accidental |
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| Virginia Rail | Rallus limicola | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Northern Diver | Gavia immer | Rare/Accidental |
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| Short-tailed Albatross | Phoebastria albatrus | Vulnerable |
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| Black Storm-petrel | Hydrobates melania | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Storm-petrel | Hydrobates microsoma | Rare/Accidental |
| Wedge-rumped Storm-petrel | Hydrobates tethys | |
| Leach's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | |
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| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | Rare/Accidental |
| Buller's Shearwater | Ardenna bulleri | Vulnerable |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Pink-footed Shearwater | Ardenna creatopus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Galapagos Shearwater | Puffinus subalaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-vented Shearwater | Puffinus opisthomelas | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | Rare/Accidental |
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| White Ibis | Eudocimus albus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-footed Booby | Sula nebouxii | Rare/Accidental |
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Phalacrocorax auritus | Rare/Accidental |
| Neotropic Cormorant | Phalacrocorax brasilianus | Rare/Accidental |
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| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Rare/Accidental |
| American Golden Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Plover | Charadrius wilsonia | Rare/Accidental |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Collared Plover | Charadrius collaris | Rare/Accidental |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Rare/Accidental |
| Surfbird | Calidris virgata | |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | Rare/Accidental |
| Wandering Tattler | Tringa incana | Rare/Accidental |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Steganopus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
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| Craveri's Murrelet | Synthliboramphus craveri | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | Rare/Accidental |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | |
| Heermann's Gull | Larus heermanni | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | Rare/Accidental |
| California Gull | Larus californicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Gull | Larus occidentalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Tern | Sternula antillarum | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
| Elegant Tern | Thalasseus elegans | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
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| Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Vulture | Coragyps atratus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Hook-billed Kite | Chondrohierax uncinatus | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| Elf Owl | Micrathene whitneyi | |
| Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
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| Elegant Trogon | Trogon elegans | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ladder-backed Woodpecker | Picoides scalaris | Rare/Accidental |
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| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | Rare/Accidental |
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| Crested Caracara | Caracara cheriway | Rare/Accidental |
| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | Rare/Accidental |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Prairie Falcon | Falco mexicanus | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Yellow-headed Parrot | Amazona oratrix | Endangered |
| Mexican Parrotlet | Forpus cyanopygius | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Rose-throated Becard | Pachyramphus aglaiae | Rare/Accidental |
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| Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
| Greenish Elaenia | Myiopagis viridicata | |
| Tropical Kingbird | Tyrannus melancholicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Myiarchus tuberculifer | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown-crested Flycatcher | Myiarchus tyrannulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Vermilion Flycatcher | Pyrocephalus rubinus | |
| Black Phoebe | Sayornis nigricans | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Empidonax difficilis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Golden Vireo | Vireo hypochryseus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-green Vireo | Vireo flavoviridis | Rare/Accidental |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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| American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | Rare/Accidental |
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| House Finch | Haemorhous mexicanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Cassin's Finch | Haemorhous cassinii | |
| Lesser Goldfinch | Spinus psaltria | Rare/Accidental |
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| Clay-colored Sparrow | Spizella pallida | Rare/Accidental |
| Lark Sparrow | Chondestes grammacus | Rare/Accidental |
| Cassin's Sparrow | Peucaea cassinii | |
| Vesper Sparrow | Pooecetes gramineus | |
| Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | Melospiza lincolnii | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | Rare/Accidental |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | Leiothlypis celata | Rare/Accidental |
| Nashville Warbler | Leiothlypis ruficapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| MacGillivray's Warbler | Geothlypis tolmiei | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | |
| Tropical Parula | Setophaga pitiayumi | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia | |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Gray Warbler | Setophaga nigrescens | |
| Wilson's Warbler | Cardellina pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Streak-backed Oriole | Icterus pustulatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Oriole | Icterus cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | Molothrus ater | Rare/Accidental |
| Great-tailed Grackle | Quiscalus mexicanus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Yellow Grosbeak | Pheucticus chrysopeplus | |
| Black-headed Grosbeak | Pheucticus melanocephalus | |
| Red-breasted Chat | Granatellus venustus | Rare/Accidental |
| Dickcissel | Spiza americana | |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue Grosbeak | Passerina caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Lazuli Bunting | Passerina amoena | Rare/Accidental |
| Varied Bunting | Passerina versicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Painted Bunting | Passerina ciris | |
| Flame-colored Tanager | Piranga bidentata | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Tanager | Piranga ludoviciana | |
| Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Blue-black Grassquit | Volatinia jacarina | Rare/Accidental |
| White-collared Seedeater | Sporophila torqueola | Rare/Accidental |
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| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Stelgidopteryx serripennis | |
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| Happy Wren | Pheugopedius felix | Rare/Accidental |
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Polioptila caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
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| Blue Mockingbird | Melanotis caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | Rare/Accidental |
| Curve-billed Thrasher | Toxostoma curvirostre | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Introduced species |
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| Brown-backed Solitaire | Myadestes occidentalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-backed Thrush | Turdus rufopalliatus | |
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