Mexico · Quintana Roo
Laguna Cobá
288 species and 26,182 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: December–March, with up to 153 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
LimpkinAramus guarauna
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Northern JacanaJacana spinosa
Great EgretArdea alba
AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
Social FlycatcherMyiozetetes similis
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
Tropical MockingbirdMimus gilvus
Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
Melodious BlackbirdDives divesSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Zona Arqueológica Cobá1 km320 species
- Reserva Xocen Birding Trail45 km215 species
- Zona Arqueológica Muyil48 km323 species
- Chunyaxché48 km251 species
- El Cedral79 km209 species
- Reserva Toh - Plantación de Madera Dura y Vía de Acceso Poniente80 km285 species
All 288 species recorded here
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Melodious Blackbird Dives dives
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Ruddy Crake Laterallus ruber
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Morelet's Seedeater Sporophila morelleti
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
- Yellow-winged Tanager Thraupis abbas
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- Yellow-throated Euphonia Euphonia hirundinacea
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
- Olive-throated Parakeet Eupsittula nana
- Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa
- White-fronted Amazon Amazona albifrons
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Yucatan Jay Cyanocorax yucatanicus
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus
- Orange Oriole Icterus auratus
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
- Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Black-headed Trogon Trogon melanocephalus
- Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
- Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas
- Scrub Euphonia Euphonia affinis
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Spot-breasted Wren Pheugopedius maculipectus
- Collared Aracari Pteroglossus torquatus
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Yucatan Woodpecker Melanerpes pygmaeus
- Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris
- Northern Tropical Pewee Contopus bogotensis
- Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
- White-bellied Emerald Chlorestes candida
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus flavigaster
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Russet-naped Wood Rail Aramides albiventris
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- Mangrove Vireo Vireo pallens
- Yellow-backed Oriole Icterus chrysater
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Lesser Greenlet Pachysylvia decurtata
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Curve-winged Sabrewing Pampa curvipennis
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Blue Bunting Cyanocompsa parellina
- Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii
- Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Lesson's Motmot Momotus lessonii
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Black-crowned Tityra Tityra inquisitor
- Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Ocellated Turkey Meleagris ocellata
- Rose-throated Tanager Piranga roseogularis
- Yucatan Vireo Vireo magister
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
- Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius
- Pinnated Bittern Botaurus pinnatus
- Green-backed Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Black Catbird Melanoptila glabrirostris
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Grey-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker Dryobates scalaris
- Yucatan Poorwill Nyctiphrynus yucatanicus
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Northern Bentbill Oncostoma cinereigulare
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Middle American Screech Owl Megascops guatemalae
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
- Yucatan Flycatcher Myiarchus yucatanensis
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
- Thicket Tinamou Crypturellus cinnamomeus
- Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Ruddy Woodcreeper Dendrocincla homochroa
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Pheasant Cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- White-crowned Parrot Pionus senilis
- Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
- Grey Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- Red-crowned Ant Tanager Habia rubica
- Eye-ringed Flatbill Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
- Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
- Yucatan Nightjar Antrostomus badius
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla anabatina
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
- Grey-throated Chat Granatellus sallaei
- Grey-collared Becard Pachyramphus major
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Trilling Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- Mottled Owl Strix virgata
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa
- White-bellied Wren Uropsila leucogastra
- Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe
- Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- White-necked Puffbird Notharchus hyperrhynchus
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus
- Northern Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae
- Caribbean Dove Leptotila jamaicensis
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Red-capped Manakin Ceratopipra mentalis
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis
- Barred Forest Falcon Micrastur ruficollis
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Northern Potoo Nyctibius jamaicensis
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Singing Quail Dactylortyx thoracicus
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Tropical Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus coronatus
- Smoky-brown Woodpecker Leuconotopicus fumigatus
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Mayan Antthrush Formicarius moniliger
- Collared Trogon Trogon collaris
- White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus
- Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa
- Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana
- American Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber
- Black-collared Hawk Busarellus nigricollis
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Laguna Cobá?
December–March. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 153 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Laguna Cobá?
288 species, from 26,182 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Laguna Cobá in November?
The most recorded in November: Great-tailed Grackle, Limpkin, Pied-billed Grebe, Great Blue Heron and Northern Jacana.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.