Birds main page Pelecaniformes Family: Anhingidae - Anhingas or Darters Family: Fregatidae - Frigatebirds Family: Pelecanidae - Pelicans Family: Phaethontidae - Tropicbirds Family: Phalacrocoracidae - Cormorants Family: Sulidae: Boobies Piciformes Family: Galbulidae - Jacamars Family: Picidae - Woodpeckers Family: Ramphastidae - Toucans Podicipediformes Family: Podicipedidae - Grebes

Family: Anhingidae - Anhingas or Darters
Anhingas have very long, slender necks, small heads and long pointed bills. The tail is long and shaped like a narrow fan in flight.

Family: Fregatidae - Frigatebirds
Large seabirds with narrow, pointed wings. Frigatebirds are usually seen gliding high above the sea, their wings forming a conspicuous shallow W pattern in silhouette. The long tail is occasionally divided into a deep fork. The bill is long and powerfully hooked.

Family: Pelecanidae- Pelicans
Large seabirds with long, hooked bills and enormous gular pouches.

Family: Phaethontidae - Tropicbirds
Seabirds resembling enormous terns with heavy bills and very long central tail feathers. They usually fly high above the sea with strong, rapid wing beats and dive, tern-like for fish.

Family: Phalacrocoracidae - Cormorants
Large black water birds with long necks and hooked bills

Family: Sulidae - Boobies
Large seabirds with cigar shaped bodies, long, pointed wings and stout, sharp bills.

Family: Galbulidae - Jacamars
These are slender, medium-sized birds with brilliant, iridescent plumage and long, thin bills. They resemble enormous hummingbirds. They are usually found in forest clearings or amidst second growth.

Family: Picidae - Woodpeckers
Woodpeckers live, feed and breed typically in trees, where they climb on the trunks or larger branches, usually in a vertical attitude, supported by their stiff tail-feathers. Nests are made in tree-holes, and both sexes care for the eggs and young, the male alone incubating at night.

Family: Ramphastidae - Toucans
This family is unmistakable with their enormous, disproportionate bills. Usually feeds in the canopy on fruits and nests in tree-holes. It has a loud, high-pitched call. The toucan in flight swoops and glides swiftly from tree to tree.

Family: Podicipedidae - Grebes
Small water-birds, inhabiting mainly freshwater areas. Superficially resembling ducks, they have lobed toes and more sharply pointed bills. Two species occur in Trinidad and Tobago..