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Curaçao
This checklist includes all bird species found in Curaçao , 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 Clements, version 2025. 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: Curaçao [map]
Number of species: 282
Number of globally threatened species: 11
Number of introduced species: 12
Date last reviewed: 2021-09-05
Last modified: 2025-10-12
See also: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm
Number of globally threatened species: 11
Number of introduced species: 12
Date last reviewed: 2021-09-05
Last modified: 2025-10-12
See also: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm
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| White-faced Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna autumnalis | |
| Comb Duck | Sarkidiornis sylvicola | Rare/Accidental |
| Orinoco Goose | Oressochen jubatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | |
| White-cheeked Pintail | Anas bahamensis | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | |
| Bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | Rare/Accidental |
| Masked Duck | Nomonyx dominicus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Crested Bobwhite | Colinus cristatus | |
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| Red Junglefowl | Gallus gallus | Introduced species |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Scaly-naped Pigeon | Patagioenas squamosa | |
| Bare-eyed Pigeon | Patagioenas corensis | |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | |
| White-tipped Dove | Leptotila verreauxi | |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | Rare/Accidental |
| Eared Dove | Zenaida auriculata | |
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| Guira Cuckoo | Guira guira | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Ani | Crotophaga major | Rare/Accidental |
| Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | Rare/Accidental |
| Groove-billed Ani | Crotophaga sulcirostris | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
| Gray-capped Cuckoo | Coccyzus lansbergi | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lesser Nighthawk | Chordeiles acutipennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | |
| Antillean Nighthawk | Chordeiles gundlachii | Rare/Accidental |
| White-tailed Nightjar | Hydropsalis cayennensis | |
| Chuck-will's-widow | Antrostomus carolinensis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Chimney Swift | Chaetura pelagica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Chapman's Swift | Chaetura chapmani | Rare/Accidental |
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| White-necked Jacobin | Florisuga mellivora | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-breasted Hermit | Glaucis hirsutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruby-topaz Hummingbird | Chrysolampis mosquitus | |
| Blue-tailed Emerald | Chlorostilbon mellisugus | |
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| Sora | Porzana carolina | |
| Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | |
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| Limpkin | Aramus guarauna | Rare/Accidental |
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| Double-striped Thick-knee | Hesperoburhinus bistriatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-necked Stilt | Himantopus mexicanus | |
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| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Vulnerable |
| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | |
| Pied Plover | Hoploxypterus cayanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Near-threatened |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Southern Lapwing | Vanellus chilensis | |
| Wilson's Plover | Anarhynchus wilsonia | |
| Collared Plover | Anarhynchus collaris | |
| Snowy Plover | Anarhynchus nivosus | Near-threatened |
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| Wattled Jacana | Jacana jacana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Hudsonian Whimbrel | Numenius hudsonicus | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Marbled Godwit | Limosa fedoa | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Vulnerable |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Vulnerable |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Near-threatened |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Vulnerable |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Near-threatened |
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| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Skimmer | Rynchops niger | |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Least Tern | Sternula antillarum | |
| Large-billed Tern | Phaetusa simplex | Rare/Accidental |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
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| American Flamingo | Phoenicopterus ruber | |
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| Least Grebe | Tachybaptus dominicus | |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | |
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| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Endangered |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | Rare/Accidental |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sargasso Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | |
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| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | Rare/Accidental |
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| Neotropic Cormorant | Nannopterum brasilianum | |
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| White Ibis | Eudocimus albus | Rare/Accidental |
| Scarlet Ibis | Eudocimus ruber | Rare/Accidental |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | Rare/Accidental |
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| Least Bittern | Botaurus exilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Whistling Heron | Syrigma sibilatrix | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | |
| Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | Near-threatened |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | |
| Cocoi Heron | Ardea cocoi | Rare/Accidental |
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| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | |
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| Black Vulture | Coragyps atratus | Rare/Accidental |
| Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Swallow-tailed Kite | Elanoides forficatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-winged Harrier | Circus buffoni | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | |
| White-tailed Hawk | Geranoaetus albicaudatus | |
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| American Barn Owl | Tyto furcata | |
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| Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ringed Kingfisher | Megaceryle torquata | Rare/Accidental |
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | |
| Amazon Kingfisher | Chloroceryle amazona | Rare/Accidental |
| American Pygmy Kingfisher | Chloroceryle aenea | Rare/Accidental |
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| Channel-billed Toucan | Ramphastos vitellinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | Rare/Accidental |
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| Crested Caracara | Caracara plancus | |
| Yellow-headed Caracara | Daptrius chimachima | Rare/Accidental |
| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
| Aplomado Falcon | Falco femoralis | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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| Bronze-winged Parrot | Pionus chalcopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-lored Amazon | Amazona autumnalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-shouldered Amazon | Amazona barbadensis | Introduced species Near-threatened |
| Orange-winged Amazon | Amazona amazonica | Introduced species |
| Green-rumped Parrotlet | Forpus passerinus | Introduced species |
| Brown-throated Parakeet | Eupsittula pertinax | |
| Blue-and-yellow Macaw | Ara ararauna | Uncertain origin |
| Scarlet-fronted Parakeet | Psittacara wagleri | Introduced species Near-threatened |
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| Yellow-chinned Spinetail | Certhiaxis cinnamomeus | |
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| Cinereous Becard | Pachyramphus rufus | |
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| Lesser Elaenia | Elaenia chiriquensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | Contopus cooperi | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Wood-Pewee | Contopus sordidulus | |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | Contopus virens | Rare/Accidental |
| Alder Flycatcher | Empidonax alnorum | |
| Northern Scrub-Flycatcher | Sublegatus arenarum | |
| Vermilion Flycatcher | Pyrocephalus rubinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Water-Tyrant | Fluvicola pica | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown-crested Flycatcher | Myiarchus tyrannulus | |
| Cattle Tyrant | Machetornis rixosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Kiskadee | Pitangus sulphuratus | Rare/Accidental |
| Variegated Flycatcher | Empidonomus varius | Rare/Accidental |
| Crowned Slaty Flycatcher | Empidonomus aurantioatrocristatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Tropical Kingbird | Tyrannus melancholicus | |
| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
| Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | |
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| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Philadelphia Vireo | Vireo philadelphicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus | |
| Chivi Vireo | Vireo chivi | |
| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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| House Crow | Corvus splendens | Uncertain origin |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| White-winged Swallow | Tachycineta albiventer | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Swallow | Tachycineta leucorrhoa | Rare/Accidental |
| Chilean Swallow | Tachycineta leucopyga | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Martin | Progne subis | |
| Cuban Martin | Progne cryptoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
| Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
| Brown-chested Martin | Progne tapera | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Stelgidopteryx serripennis | |
| Southern Rough-winged Swallow | Stelgidopteryx ruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | |
| Cave Swallow | Petrochelidon fulva | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Hill Myna | Gracula religiosa | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum | Rare/Accidental |
| Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | |
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| Veery | Catharus fuscescens | |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Rare/Accidental |
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| Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Southern Masked-Weaver | Ploceus velatus | Introduced species |
| Village Weaver | Ploceus cucullatus | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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| Grasshopper Sparrow | Ammodramus savannarum | |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | Spizella pallida | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-collared Sparrow | Zonotrichia capensis | |
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| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Near-threatened |
| Red-breasted Meadowlark | Leistes militaris | |
| Orchard Oriole | Icterus spurius | Rare/Accidental |
| Venezuelan Troupial | Icterus icterus | Introduced species |
| Yellow Oriole | Icterus nigrogularis | |
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | Rare/Accidental |
| Shiny Cowbird | Molothrus bonariensis | |
| Great-tailed Grackle | Quiscalus mexicanus | |
| Carib Grackle | Quiscalus lugubris | |
| Yellow-hooded Blackbird | Chrysomus icterocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | |
| Worm-eating Warbler | Helmitheros vermivorum | Rare/Accidental |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | |
| Tennessee Warbler | Leiothlypis peregrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | |
| Mourning Warbler | Geothlypis philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | |
| Magnolia Warbler | Setophaga magnolia | Rare/Accidental |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | Setophaga castanea | Rare/Accidental |
| Blackburnian Warbler | Setophaga fusca | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Yellow Warbler | Setophaga aestiva | |
| Mangrove Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia | |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | Setophaga pensylvanica | Rare/Accidental |
| Blackpoll Warbler | Setophaga striata | Near-threatened |
| Palm Warbler | Setophaga palmarum | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
| Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Summer Tanager | Piranga rubra | Rare/Accidental |
| Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea | |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus | |
| Black-headed Grosbeak | Pheucticus melanocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue Grosbeak | Passerina caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | |
| Dickcissel | Spiza americana | |
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| Swallow Tanager | Tersina viridis | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-legged Honeycreeper | Cyanerpes cyaneus | Rare/Accidental |
| Saffron Finch | Sicalis flaveola | Introduced species |
| Blue-black Grassquit | Volatinia jacarina | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesson's Seedeater | Sporophila bouvronides | Rare/Accidental |
| Lined Seedeater | Sporophila lineola | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy-breasted Seedeater | Sporophila minuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-bellied Seedeater | Sporophila nigricollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor | |
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