December 2003 and 2005
James Toledano

 

I spent a week in Aruba during the holidays from December 21 to December 28, 2003. Below is my complete list during this first visit, I had a second visit recently but not enough time to get out as my first trip. Not to worry, as I have married an Aruban I will be returning to the area for many years to come. In the list below, when relevant I have noted location and number.

The two photos were taken by my wife, Monique Beaujon, a Rufous-collard Sparrow taken in Arikok and a Brown-throated Parakeet taken at home. Both taken on the 2003 trip.

December 2003:

Brown Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron: Saveneta
Great Egret
Green Heron
Blue-winged Teal: Bubali
White-cheeked Pintail: Bubali
Osprey: Malmosk Lighthouse
American Kestrel
Crested Bobwhite: Arikok
Common Moorehen: Bubali
Caribbean Coot
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Wimbrel: Malmosk
Ruddy Turnstone: Baby Beach
Sanderling
Laughing Gull: Malmosk
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern: Baby Beach
Common Tern
Least Tern
Rock Dove
Bare-eyed Pigeon
Eared Dove
Common-ground Dove
White-tipped Dove
Brown-throated Parakeet
Burrowing Owl
White-necked Jacobin: 1 Frenchman’s Pass
Blue-tailed Emerald
Scrub Flycatcher
Tropical Mockingbird
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
Yellow Warbler
Bananaquit
Black-faced Grassquit
Rufous-collard Sparrow
Carib Grackle
Shiny Cowbird
Troupial
Yellow Oriole: Frenchman’s Pass
House Sparrow


Rufous-collared Sparrow, Arikok NP, Aruba, Dec., 2003.

Photo by Monique Beaujon.

 

My recent trip this holiday season saw little birding, but here is my list from December 25 to December 31, 2005.

Brown Booby
Brown Pelican
Magnificent Frigatebird
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
White-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Caribbean Coot
Lesser Yellowlegs
Royal Tern
Common Tern
Rock Dove
Eared Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Brown-throated Parakeet
Burrowing Owl
Blue-tailed Emerald
Belted Kingfisher
Scrub Flycatcher
Tropical Mockingbird
Yellow Warbler
Bananaquit
Black-faced Grassquit
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Carib Grackle
Troupial
House Sparrow