Belize · Belize District
Captain Hook's Restaurant & Shrimp Farm
309 species and 48,442 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: November–January and March, with up to 166 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
Great EgretArdea alba
Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
Tropical MockingbirdMimus gilvus
Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
Yellow-crowned Night HeronNyctanassa violacea
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Green HeronButorides virescens166 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 309 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary – Spanish Creek31 km266 species
- Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary – Northern Lagoon32 km285 species
- Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary – Bird's Eye View Lodge33 km340 species
- Caye Caulker – South Point33 km192 species
- Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary34 km349 species
- Tropical Education Center & Belize Zoo Jungle Lodge35 km302 species
All 309 species recorded here
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia
- Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans
- Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Mangrove Vireo Vireo pallens
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio
- Olive-throated Parakeet Eupsittula nana
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Yucatan Vireo Vireo magister
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Spot-breasted Wren Pheugopedius maculipectus
- Melodious Blackbird Dives dives
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Yucatan Woodpecker Melanerpes pygmaeus
- Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii
- Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Black Catbird Melanoptila glabrirostris
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea
- Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Scrub Euphonia Euphonia affinis
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Yellow-throated Euphonia Euphonia hirundinacea
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Black-headed Trogon Trogon melanocephalus
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber
- White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris
- Russet-naped Wood Rail Aramides albiventris
- Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas
- Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus flavigaster
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis
- Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Yucatan Amazon Amazona xantholora
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
- Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Black-crowned Tityra Tityra inquisitor
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Lesser Greenlet Pachysylvia decurtata
- Northern Tropical Pewee Contopus bogotensis
- Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Yucatan Jay Cyanocorax yucatanicus
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Jabiru Jabiru mycteria
- Grey-collared Becard Pachyramphus major
- Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis
- Collared Plover Anarhynchus collaris
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Green-backed Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus
- Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
- Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
- Yucatan Flycatcher Myiarchus yucatanensis
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas
- Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Lesson's Motmot Momotus lessonii
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae
- Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Yellow-backed Oriole Icterus chrysater
- White-bellied Emerald Chlorestes candida
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera
- Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
- White-collared Manakin Manacus candei
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus
- Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa
- Yucatan Bobwhite Colinus nigrogularis
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
- Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Black-collared Hawk Busarellus nigricollis
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Tropical Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus coronatus
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Trilling Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
- Northern Potoo Nyctibius jamaicensis
- Sora Porzana carolina
- White-bellied Wren Uropsila leucogastra
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui
- Olive-backed Euphonia Euphonia gouldi
- White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Grey-headed Dove Leptotila plumbeiceps
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
- Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus
- Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum
- Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Captain Hook's Restaurant & Shrimp Farm?
November–January and March. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 166 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Captain Hook's Restaurant & Shrimp Farm?
309 species, from 48,442 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Captain Hook's Restaurant & Shrimp Farm in November?
The most recorded in November: Black-necked Stilt, Little Blue Heron, Spotted Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper and Snowy Egret.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.