Nicaragua · Granada Department
El Guayabo Wetlands
238 species and 16,116 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January, March and September–October, with up to 132 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Northern JacanaJacana spinosa
Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
Neotropic CormorantNannopterum brasilianum
Inca DoveColumbina inca
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Great EgretArdea alba
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Groove-billed AniCrotophaga sulcirostris
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatus
Black VultureCoragyps atratus84 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 238 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Laguna de Tisma9 km242 species
- Isletas de Granada – Puerto de las Piedras Pintadas y costa13 km216 species
- Carretera hacia Cofradia26 km138 species
- Reserva Privada Montibelli34 km207 species
- Reserva Natural Chocoyero El Brujo36 km194 species
- Reserva Privada Concepción de María36 km192 species
All 238 species recorded here
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Hoffmann's Woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Rufous-backed Wren Campylorhynchus capistratus
- Inca Dove Columbina inca
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- White-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax formosus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Melodious Blackbird Dives dives
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Streak-backed Oriole Icterus pustulatus
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Orange-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula canicularis
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Spot-breasted Oriole Icterus pectoralis
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris
- Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Sporophila minuta
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Collared Plover Anarhynchus collaris
- Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Pearl Kite Gampsonyx swainsonii
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma
- Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Lesser Ground Cuckoo Morococcyx erythropygus
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Stripe-headed Sparrow Peucaea ruficauda
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Nicaraguan Grackle Quiscalus nicaraguensis
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Scrub Euphonia Euphonia affinis
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- White-lored Gnatcatcher Polioptila albiloris
- Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Pinnated Bittern Botaurus pinnatus
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Black-headed Trogon Trogon melanocephalus
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Northern Tropical Pewee Contopus bogotensis
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- Spot-bellied Bobwhite Colinus leucopogon
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Pacific Parakeet Psittacara strenuus
- Rufous-and-white Wren Thryophilus rufalbus
- Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii
- Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti
- Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona
- Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Double-striped Thick-knee Hesperoburhinus bistriatus
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Finsch's Parakeet Psittacara finschi
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Black-collared Hawk Busarellus nigricollis
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea
- Nutting's Flycatcher Myiarchus nuttingi
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutila
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
- Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
- Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Jabiru Jabiru mycteria
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe
- Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus
- Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina
- White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis
- Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae
- Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Rufescent Tiger Heron Tigrisoma lineatum
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Cabanis's Wren Cantorchilus modestus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at El Guayabo Wetlands?
January, March and September–October. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 132 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at El Guayabo Wetlands?
238 species, from 16,116 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at El Guayabo Wetlands in November?
The most recorded in November: Northern Jacana, Great Kiskadee, Tropical Kingbird, Snowy Egret and Little Blue Heron.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.