This checklist is based on Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Belize by H. Lee Jones and A. C. Vallely. Accidental species have been removed.
| Species | Species | Species |
| TINAMOUS Great Tinamou Little Tinamou Thicket Tinamou Slaty-breasted Tinamou GREBES Least Grebe Pied-billed Grebe PELICANS American White Pelican Brown Pelican CORMORANTS Neotropic Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant ANHINGAS Anhinga FRIGATEBIRDS Magnificent Frigatebird BITTERNS & HERONS American Bittern Least Bittern Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Agami Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Boat-billed Heron IBISES & SPOONBILLS White Ibis Glossy Ibis Roseate Spoonbill STORKS Jabiru Wood Stork AMERICAN VULTURES Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture King Vulture FLAMINGOS Greater Flamingo SWANS, GEESE & DUCKS Black-bellied Whistling Duck Fulvous Whistling Duck Muscovy Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Lesser Scaup KITES, EAGLES, HAWKS & ALLIES Osprey Gray-headed Kite Hook-billed Kite Swallow-tailed Kite Black-shouldered Kite Snail Kite Double-toothed Kite Mississippi Kite Plumbeous Kite Black-collared Hawk Crane Hawk White Hawk Gray Hawk Common Black-Hawk Great Black-Hawk Solitary Eagle Roadside Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Short-tailed Hawk White-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle Black Hawk-Eagle Ornate Hawk-Eagle FALCONS Barred Forest-Falcon Collared Forest-Falcon Laughing Falcon American Kestrel Aplomado Falcon Bat Falcon Orange-breasted Falcon Peregrine Falcon CURASSOWS & GUANS Plain Chachalaca Crested Guan Great Curassow TURKEYS Ocellated Turkey QUAIL Black-throated Bobwhite Spotted Wood-Quail RAILS Ruddy Crake Gray-breasted Crake Clapper Rail Gray-necked Wood-Rail Yellow-breasted Crake Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen American Coot SUNGREBES Sungrebe LIMPKINS Limpkin PLOVERS Black-bellied Plover Wilson's Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer STILTS & AVOCETS Black-necked Stilt JACANAS Northern Jacana SANDPIPERS & ALLIES Greater Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Common Snipe SANDPIPERS & ALLIES Laughing Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Least Tern Black Tern PIGEONS & DOVES Pale-vented Pigeon Scaled Pigeon White-crowned Pigeon Red-billed Pigeon Short-billed Pigeon White-winged Dove Common Ground-Dove Plain-breasted Ground-Dove Ruddy Ground-Dove Blue Ground-Dove White-tipped Dove Gray-headed Dove Caribbean Dove Gray-chested Dove Ruddy Quail-Dove PARROTS Olive-throated Parakeet Scarlet Macaw Brown-hooded Parrot White-crowned Parrot White-fronted Parrot Yellow-lored Parrot | Mealy Parrot Yellow-headed Parrot CUCKOOS & ALLIES Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Mangrove Cuckoo Squirrel Cuckoo Striped Cuckoo Pheasant Cuckoo Groove-billed Ani TYPICAL OWLS Vermiculated Screech-Owl Spectacled Owl Central American Pygmy-Owl Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Burrowing Owl Mottled Owl Black-and-white Owl Striped Owl GOATSUCKERS Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Pauraque Yucatán Poorwill Yucatán Nightjar Whip-poor-will POTOOS Northern Potoo SWIFTS White-chinned Swift White-collared Swift Vaux's Swift White-throated Swift Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Band-tailed Barbthroat Long-tailed Hermit Little Hermit Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Wedge-tailed Sabrewing Violet Sabrewing White-necked Jacobin Green-breasted Mango Brown Violet-ear Canivet's Emerald White-bellied Emerald Azure-crowned Hummingbird Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Buff-bellied Hummingbird Cinnamon Hummingbird Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Purple-crowned Fairy TROGONS Black-headed Trogon Violaceous Trogon Collared Trogon Slaty-tailed Trogon MOTMOTS Tody Motmot Blue-crowned Motmot Keel-billed Motmot KINGFISHERS Ringed Kingfisher Belted Kingfisher Amazon Kingfisher Green Kingfisher American Pygmy Kingfisher PUFFBIRDS White-necked Puffbird White-whiskered Puffbird JACAMARS Rufous-tailed Jacamar TOUCANS Emerald Toucanet Collared Aracari Keel-billed Toucan WOODPECKERS Acorn Woodpecker Black-cheeked Woodpecker Red-vented Woodpecker Golden-fronted Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Smoky-brown Woodpecker Golden-olive Woodpecker Chestnut-colored Woodpecker Lineated Woodpecker Pale-billed Woodpecker OVENBIRDS Rufous-breasted Spinetail Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner Plain Xenops Scaly-throated Leaftosser WOODCREEPERS Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Ruddy Woodcreeper Olivaceus Woodcreeper Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Northern Barred-Woodcreeper Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Streak-headed Woodcreeper TYPICAL ANTBIRDS Great Antshrike Barred Antshrike Plain Antvireo Dot-winged Antwren Dusky Antbird Bare-crowned Antbird ANTTHRUSHES & ANTPITTAS Black-faced Antthrush TYRANNULETS ELAENIAS & ALLIES Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet Greenish Elaenia Yellow-bellied Elaenia Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Sepia-capped Flycatcher Northern Bentbill Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher Common Tody-Flycatcher Eye-ringed Flatbill Yellow-olive Flycatcher Stub-tailed Spadebill FLUVICOLINE FLYCATCHERS Royal Flycatcher Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher Greater Pewee Eastern Wood-Pewee Tropical Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Black Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher TYRANNINE FLYCATCHERS Bright-rumped Attila Rufous Mourner Yucatán Flycatcher Dusky-capped Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Great Kiskadee Boat-billed Flycatcher Social Flycatcher Streaked Flycatcher Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Piratic Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Couch's Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Fork-tailed Flycatcher TITYRAS & BECARDS Thrushlike Schiffornis Rufous Piha Cinnamon Becard White-winged Becard Rose-throated Becard Masked Tityra Black-crowned Tityra COTINGAS Lovely Cotinga | MANAKINS |
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