Mexico · Jalisco
Rio Pitillal
287 species and 30,957 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January–April and November, with up to 145 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Streak-backed OrioleIcterus pustulatus
Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Mexican CaciqueCassiculus melanicterus
Groove-billed AniCrotophaga sulcirostris
Golden-cheeked WoodpeckerMelanerpes chrysogenys
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
Rufous-backed ThrushTurdus rufopalliatus
Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
Mangrove WarblerSetophaga petechia
Blue-grey GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Social FlycatcherMyiozetetes similis126 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 287 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Boca de Tomates6 km269 species
- Jardín Botánico Vallarta22 km260 species
- Playa Yelapa29 km278 species
- Laguna San Pancho34 km231 species
- Rancho Primavera37 km310 species
All 287 species recorded here
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Rufous-backed Thrush Turdus rufopalliatus
- Streak-backed Oriole Icterus pustulatus
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Mexican Cacique Cassiculus melanicterus
- Golden-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes chrysogenys
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Inca Dove Columbina inca
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Happy Wren Pheugopedius felix
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- MacGillivray's Warbler Geothlypis tolmiei
- Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater Sporophila torqueola
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Sinaloa Wren Thryophilus sinaloa
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila
- Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris
- Orange-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula canicularis
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Thick-billed Kingbird Tyrannus crassirostris
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Western Flycatcher Empidonax difficilis
- Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Russet-crowned Motmot Momotus mexicanus
- Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Elegant Quail Callipepla douglasii
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Varied Bunting Passerina versicolor
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Black-throated Grey Warbler Setophaga nigrescens
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockiorum
- Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus
- Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Scrub Euphonia Euphonia affinis
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
- Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri
- Stripe-headed Sparrow Peucaea ruficauda
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Plumbeous Vireo Vireo plumbeus
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Lucy's Warbler Leiothlypis luciae
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- West Mexican Chachalaca Ortalis poliocephala
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- Nutting's Flycatcher Myiarchus nuttingi
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Rufous-bellied Chachalaca Ortalis wagleri
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Blue Bunting Cyanocompsa parellina
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Blue Mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens
- Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi
- Blue-footed Booby Sula nebouxii
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Golden Vireo Vireo hypochryseus
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- California Gull Larus californicus
- Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Yellow Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysopeplus
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker Dryobates scalaris
- Violet-crowned Hummingbird Ramosomyia violiceps
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- Citreoline Trogon Trogon citreolus
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Cocos Booby Sula brewsteri
- Colima Pygmy Owl Glaucidium palmarum
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Cassin's Kingbird Tyrannus vociferans
- Chihuahuan Meadowlark Sturnella lilianae
- Virginia's Warbler Leiothlypis virginiae
- White-throated Thrush Turdus assimilis
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Sporophila minuta
- Black-capped Gnatcatcher Polioptila nigriceps
- Orange-breasted Bunting Passerina leclancherii
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Greater Pewee Contopus pertinax
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus aurantiirostris
- Plain-capped Starthroat Heliomaster constantii
- Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus flavigaster
- San Blas Jay Cyanocorax sanblasianus
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
- Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Calliope Hummingbird Selasphorus calliope
- Rivoli's Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- Mottled Owl Strix virgata
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Berylline Hummingbird Saucerottia beryllina
- Golden-crowned Emerald Cynanthus auriceps
- Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- Gila Woodpecker Melanerpes uropygialis
- Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Painted Whitestart Myioborus pictus
- Lazuli Bunting Passerina amoena
- Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Fan-tailed Warbler Basileuterus lachrymosus
- Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- American Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri
- Mountain Pygmy Owl Glaucidium gnoma
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Scott's Oriole Icterus parisorum
- Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
- Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Grey-crowned Woodpecker Colaptes auricularis
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- White-throated Swift Aeronautes saxatalis
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus
- Hutton's Vireo Vireo huttoni
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Mexican Woodnymph Eupherusa ridgwayi
- Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus
- Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina
- Black-capped Vireo Vireo atricapilla
- Elegant Euphonia Chlorophonia elegantissima
- Elegant Trogon Trogon elegans
- Black-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax colliei
- Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus
- Sparkling-tailed Woodstar Tilmatura dupontii
- African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Collared Plover Anarhynchus collaris
- Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Mexican Hermit Phaethornis mexicanus
- White-striped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes leucogaster
- Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus
- Northern Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes phaeocercus
- White-bellied Wren Uropsila leucogastra
- Canyon Towhee Melozone fusca
- Striped Sparrow Oriturus superciliosus
- Clark's Grebe Aechmophorus clarkii
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Black-vented Oriole Icterus wagleri
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus
- White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
- Buff-breasted Flycatcher Empidonax fulvifrons
- Flammulated Flycatcher Ramphotrigon flammulatum
- Least Storm Petrel Hydrobates microsoma
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Rio Pitillal?
January–April and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 145 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Rio Pitillal?
287 species, from 30,957 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Rio Pitillal in November?
The most recorded in November: Streak-backed Oriole, Great Kiskadee, Great-tailed Grackle, Mexican Cacique and Groove-billed Ani.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.