Guyana - Rainforest Giants Wildlife Report

  • During our 2025 departures, guests saw over 105 species, including 75 different birds. Many of the species seen are classed as endangered or critically endangered.

    For bird species, you can find almost all on the list on the free app: ‘Merlin Bird ID’.

    Non-bird species:

    • Agouti

    • Amazon Tree Boa

    • Arapaima

    • Black Caiman

    • Blue Morpho

    • Brown Capuchin

    • Capybara

    • Dwarf Caiman 

    • Fer de lance

    • Fish-eating Bat

    • Gray and black four-eyed opossum

    • Fruit-eating Bat 

    • Ghost Spider

    • Giant River Otters 

    • Gladiator Tree Frog 

    • Goliath Bird Eating Spider

    • Green Iguana 

    • Harpy Eagle (adult and jeuvenuile)

    • Howler Monkey 

    • Long-nosed River Bat 

    • Neotropical Otter 

    • Paca

    • Sipo Razor

    • Spectacled Caiman 

    • Squirrel Monkey 

    • Leptodactylus

    • Whip Scorpion

    • Wolf Spider 

    • Worm Snake 

    • Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle 

    Birds:

    • Amazon Kingfisher

    • Anhinga

    • Band Tailed Nighthawk

    • Black Caracara 

    • Black Curassow

    • Black Nunbird

    • Black Vulture

    • Black-collared Hawk

    • Black-faced Hawk 

    • Black-necked Aracari 

    • Blue-and-yellow Macaw

    • Boat-billed Heron

    • Bronzy Jacamar

    • Buffnecked Ibis 

    • Variable Chachalaca 

    • Neotropic Cormorant

    • Crested Caracara

    • Crested Oropendola

    • Crimson-crested Woodpecker 

    • Crimson Topaz Hummingbird

    • Double-striped Thick-knee

    • Finsch's Euphonia 

    • Fork-tailed Flycatcher

    • Purple-throated Fruitcrow

    • Gray-cowled Wood-Rail

    • Great Black Hawk 

    • Great Egret

    • Gray-winged Trumpeter

    • Greater Yellow-headed Vulture 

    • Green Aracari

    • Green Ibis 

    • Grey-rumped Swift 

    • Jabiru

    • Great Jacamar

    • King Vulture

    • Cocoi Heron

    • Large-billed Tern

    • Lesser Kiskadee 

    • Lesser yYellow-headed Vulture 

    • Little Blue Heron

    • Long-tailed Hermit

    • Muscovy Duck

    • Osprey

    • Pale-vented Pigeon

    • Pied Plover 

    • Pied Water-Tyrant

    • Spix's Guan

    • Buff-breasted Wren

    • Purple-breasted Cotinga

    • American Pygmy Kingfisher 
      Red-and-green Macaw

    • Guianan Red-Cotinga

    • Ringed Kingfisher 

    • Roadside Hawk 

    • Rufescent Tiger-Heron

    • Scarlet Macaw

    • Silver-beaked Tanager

    • Spangled Cotinga

    • Spectacled owl 

    • Spotted Sandpiper 

    • Striated Heron

    • Sunbittern 

    • Swallow-tailed Kite 

    • Swallow-winged Puffbird 

    • Toco Toucan

    • Green-backed Trogon

    • Turkey Vulture

    • White bellbird 

    • White-collared Swift 

    • White-tailed Hawk

    • White-throated Toucan

    • White-winged Swallow 

    • Wood Stork

    • Yellow-headed Caracara 

    • Yellow-rumped Cacique

  • Trip report pending

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