The Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet is an inconspicuous small bird that lives in humid lowlands in most of northern South America and Panama. I saw it for the first time last weekend and I was lucky that it

The female Black-throated Mango strongly resembles a female Green-throated Mango and both of them look very similar to the juvenile male Green-throated Mango. It can be very tricky identifying these birds.

The Green-tailed Jacamar is the most common Jacamar in Suriname. This beautiful coloured bird can be found at forest edges where it hunts for insects. With its long bill it can also catch dragonflies and

The Smooth-billed Ani is an extremely social bird that lives in small family groups. You see them often eating together but they also build their nests together and the females incubate each others eggs.

It's obvious why the Snail Kite is called a snail kite. It's a specialised snail eater; a molluscivore. Its main diet consists of large apple snails and there are plenty of those in the canals nearby.

The Blue-grey Tanager is a very common blue bird that can be seen in almost every garden in Suriname. They live in small groups in open terrain or at the forest edge. You'll find them less in the interior

This beautiful hummingbird, the Green-throated Mango, is relatively uncommon. I haven't seen it much this year, but last year around the same time, I saw it almost daily. It was then that I spend days

The Greyish Saltator (Saltator coerulescens) sometimes visits our garden looking for fruit to eat but normally it prefers the open country and fields in the coastal area. It not only eats fruit but also

The Piratic Flycatcher (Legatus leucophaius) is a conspicuous bird with a very distinctive song that sometimes can be heard the whole day long. I haven't seen this little fellow for a while but last week

This stunningly beautiful bird is the Yellow Oriole (Icterus nigrogularis). And although it's almost completely yellow, it is a member of the blackbird family (Icteridae). It's a frequent visitor in our

The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus) is one of the five vulture species in Suriname. It greatly resembles the Greater Yellow-headed Vulture but it's smaller, more brown and prefers

The Black-capped Donacobius is a conspicuous bird that can be found in wet places like marshes, mainly along the coastline. They like to be in or on top of dense vegetation, usually quite close to the

The Green-rumped Parrotlet is the smallest of all 25 parrots and macaws in Suriname. They mainly live in the fields where they eat seeds, fruits and flowers. They are not so affected by the degradation

This stunningly beautiful bird is the Rufescent Tiger-Heron. Since we've entered the dry season some of the surrounding fields have become more accessible again. Yesterday I was going down a path made

Arrowhead Piculet (Picumnus minutissimus) Last week was a fantastic week for birding. I spotted 6 birds for the first time ever (FTE). Not that these birds are rare, but sometimes you just have to be lucky

The Spotted Tody-flycatcher visited our garden yesterday morning for the first time. I've seen this small bird (9-10cm) only a couple of times before. It was looking for insects to eat, hopping through

The Tropical Kingbird is one of the most common and conspicuous birds of Suriname. It's a real flycatcher and it catches flying insects from a perch. It can be found in open forest, forest edges, agricultural

The Greater Ani is a very social bird in the cuckoo family. They nest in small groups, building a single nest in which all the females lay their eggs. All the member of the group participate in building

Being relatively new to birding has its advantages: there are a lot of 'first time ever' birds. So it is with the Arrowhead Piculet. Yesterday evening it landed in my garden in the butterfly bush looking

The Blue-black Grassquit is a common visitor in our garden. This small bird (10 cm) in the tanager family can be found in the fields and along the canals where there are high grasses. The male is shiny