West Coast Wetlands

Your day starts at the Cacandee Sluice where we will be walking along a riverbank on the southern edge of the bird rich Caroni Swamp. Here we will be looking for Straight-billed Woodcreepers, Kingfishers, Clapper Rails, Bicolored Conebills and much more. Our next stop is at Waterloo, here if the tide is right we will get mudflats where shore birds will be feeding, and there should be a lot of Terns, Gulls, Whimbrils, Skimmers and the like. From here we hug the coast looking for rare Gulls, soaring and swooping Magnificent Frigatebirds and anything else that comes into view.

After lunch we head off to Oropuche Swamp. This will include getting right into the swamp looking for Ducks, Scarlet Ibis, Bat Falcons, Warblers and more. From here we hit the Sudama Steps on the eastern end of Oropuche Swamp to look for the tiny but gorgeous and unusual Spotted Toddy-Flycatchers, Greater Anis, Red-capped Cardinals, and Green-rumped Parrotlets.

From Oropuche we head to our final destination, Roussillac Swamp. We go into the swamp looking for the rare Green-throated Mango, Streaked Headed, Cocoa and Plain Brown Woodcreepers, Black-crested Antshrikes, Flycatchers, the elusive Trinidad Euphonias, and much more. Our last stop is on the outskirts of Roussillac Swamp where, as we have tea, we look for Yellow-chinned Spinetails, Anhingas, rare Ruddy-breasted Seedeaters, and the star of the show; Scarlet Ibis coming to roost.