Observer: Sandy Dillard

Comments: This was actually an aborted dive trip but I actually went birding instead. It was short but I birded around the small island off Fajardo on the east end of the PR and then I birded El Yunque NWR. This was a absolutely beautful place to go birding. I climbed all the way to the top of the peak and looked out over the Island. I actually had a clear day since I got there in the AM and therefore the afternoon clouds hadn't rolled in yet.

Number of Species: 37
 

Booby, Brown Pelican, Brown Heron, Little Blue Egret, Snowy Heron, Great Blue Egret, Cattle Heron, Green Ibis, Glossy Sandpiper, Spotted Killdeer Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Laughing Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Royal Tern, Sandwich Dove, Rock Pigeon, Scaly-naped Pigeon, Plain Dove, Mourning Ground-Dove, Common Parrot, Puerto Rican Mango, Green Emerald, Puerto Rican Tody, Puerto Rican Woodpecker, Puerto Rican Kingbird, Gray Vireo, Puerto Rican Mockingbird, Northern Thrasher, Pearly-eyed Martin, Caribbean Waxbill, Black-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Blue Bananaquit Tanager, Puerto Rican Tanager, Stripe-headed Grassquit, Yellow-faced Grackle, Greater Antillean

Sula leucogaster Pelecanus occidentalis Egretta caerulea Egretta thula Ardea herodias Bubulcus ibis Butorides virescens Plegadis falcinellus Actitis macularia Charadrius vociferus Larus delawarensis Larus atricilla Sterna nilotica Sterna maxima Sterna sandvicensis Columba livia Columba squamosa Columba inornata Zenaida macroura Columbina passerina Amazona vittata Anthracothorax viridis Chlorostilbon maugaeus Todus mexicanus Melanerpes portoricensis Tyrannus dominicensis Vireo latimeri Mimus polyglottos Margarops fuscatus Progne dominicensis Estrilda troglodytes Dendroica caerulescens Coereba flaveola Nesospingus speculiferus Spindalis zena Tiaris olivacea Quiscalus niger

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