Henri Pittier National Park

🇻🇪 Venezuela

🦥 Sloth and Toucanet Cloud Forest

⏱ 2–3 days 🥾 Moderate trails

🌍 #252 Global · 3.0 ★★★★★ ★★★★★ #39 in South America #112 in Tropical Forest

Coastal Range, Venezuela 1268 spp. recorded

Henri Pittier runs from the Caribbean shore up into cloud forest in a few kilometres of road, and that compression is what makes the wildlife easy to find. Green iguanas sit over the water on three visits in four, brown-throated sloths on nearly half.

10.400° N 67.517° W

Wildlife

⭐ Iconic Species

Groove-billed Toucanet

Aulacorhynchus sulcatus

30–40% · Possible

Helmeted Curassow

Pauxi pauxi

10–20% · With luck

Ursine Howler Monkey

Alouatta arctoidea

Insufficient data

Green Iguana

Iguana iguana

30–40% · Possible

📊 Most Spotted

Blue-gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus

60–70% · Likely

Bay-headed Tanager

Tangara gyrola

40–50% · Likely

Palm Tanager

Thraupis palmarum

40–50% · Likely

Pale-breasted Thrush

Turdus leucomelas

40–50% · Likely

Great Kiskadee

Pitangus sulphuratus

40–50% · Likely

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

40–50% · Likely

Bananaquit

Coereba flaveola

30–40% · Possible

Southern House Wren

Troglodytes musculus

30–40% · Possible

Tropical Parula

Setophaga pitiayumi

30–40% · Possible

Scaly-breasted Wren

Microcerculus marginatus

30–40% · Possible

Orange-bellied Euphonia

Euphonia xanthogaster

30–40% · Possible

Black Vulture

Coragyps atratus

30–40% · Possible

⭐ Iconic Species

Ursine Howler Monkey

Alouatta arctoidea

Insufficient data

📊 Most Spotted

Red-tailed Squirrel

Sciurus granatensis

20–30% · Possible

brown weeper capuchin

Cebus brunneus

Insufficient data

Southern Tamandua

Tamandua tetradactyla

Insufficient data

Brown-throated Sloth

Bradypus variegatus

Insufficient data

Dicotyles tajacu

Pecari tajacu

Insufficient data

Atlantic Spotted Dolphin

Stenella frontalis

Insufficient data

Ocelot

Leopardus pardalis

Insufficient data

Tayra

Eira barbara

Insufficient data

Common Opossum

Didelphis marsupialis

Insufficient data

Crested Agouti

Dasyprocta leporina

Insufficient data

Crab-eating Fox

Cerdocyon thous

Insufficient data

⭐ Iconic Species

Groove-billed Toucanet

Aulacorhynchus sulcatus

30–40% · Possible

Helmeted Curassow

Pauxi pauxi

10–20% · With luck

📊 Most Spotted

Blue-gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus

60–70% · Likely

Bay-headed Tanager

Tangara gyrola

40–50% · Likely

Palm Tanager

Thraupis palmarum

40–50% · Likely

Pale-breasted Thrush

Turdus leucomelas

40–50% · Likely

Great Kiskadee

Pitangus sulphuratus

40–50% · Likely

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

40–50% · Likely

Bananaquit

Coereba flaveola

30–40% · Possible

Southern House Wren

Troglodytes musculus

30–40% · Possible

Tropical Parula

Setophaga pitiayumi

30–40% · Possible

Scaly-breasted Wren

Microcerculus marginatus

30–40% · Possible

Orange-bellied Euphonia

Euphonia xanthogaster

30–40% · Possible

Black Vulture

Coragyps atratus

30–40% · Possible

⭐ Iconic Species

Green Iguana

Iguana iguana

30–40% · Possible

📊 Most Spotted

Wiegmann's Striped Gecko

Gonatodes vittatus

20–30% · Possible

Common House Gecko

Hemidactylus frenatus

20–30% · Possible

Common Lancehead

Bothrops atrox

20–30% · Possible

Neotropical Rattlesnake

Crotalus durissus

10–20% · Possible

Peters' Lava Lizard

Tropidurus hispidus

Insufficient data

Whitenose Blind Snake

Liotyphlops albirostris

Insufficient data

Margarita Leaf-toed Gecko

Phyllodactylus ventralis

Insufficient data

Braided Groundsnake

Erythrolamprus zweifeli

Insufficient data

Boddaert's Tropical Racer

Mastigodryas boddaerti

Insufficient data

Boa Constrictor

Boa constrictor

Insufficient data

Tropical House Gecko

Hemidactylus mabouia

Insufficient data

Spix's Sipo

Chironius spixii

Insufficient data

📊 Most Spotted

Banana Tree Dwelling Frog

Boana platanera

20–30% · Possible

Puerto Cabello Tree Frog

Flectonotus pygmaeus

Insufficient data

Rivero's Robber Frog

Pristimantis riveroi

Insufficient data

Hermina's Poison Frog

Mannophryne herminae

Insufficient data

Johnstone's Whistling Frog

Eleutherodactylus johnstonei

Insufficient data

Eastern Cane Toad

Rhinella marina

Insufficient data

Puerto Cabello Robber Frog

Strabomantis biporcatus

Insufficient data

Beebe's Toad

Rhinella beebei

Insufficient data

Spotted Foam-nest Frog

Leptodactylus insularum

Insufficient data

Secret Robber Frog

Pristimantis incertus

Insufficient data

Animal Events

🦎

Iguanas and Caimans in the Dry Months

MarApr

Green iguanas bask along the coastal fringe while caimans concentrate in the remaining pools.

Common Caiman

Caiman crocodilus

Insufficient data

Green Iguana

Iguana iguana

30–40% · Possible

🐒

Howlers and Toucanets in the Cloud Forest

SepOct

Venezuelan howlers roar at dawn while groove-billed toucanets work the fruiting cloud-forest trees.

Groove-billed Toucanet

Aulacorhynchus sulcatus

30–40% · Possible

Ursine Howler Monkey

Alouatta arctoidea

Insufficient data

🐦

Portachuelo Pass Bird Migration

SepOctNov

Migrating warblers and redstarts funnel through Portachuelo Pass, one of the Neotropics' classic migration bottlenecks.

Black-and-white Warbler

Mniotilta varia

10–20% · With luck

American Redstart

Setophaga ruticilla

20–30% · Possible

Northern Waterthrush

Parkesia noveboracensis

30–40% · Possible

🐸

Frogs Call in the Rains

AprMayJun

Treefrogs and whistling frogs strike up their chorus with the first sustained rains.

Eastern Cane Toad

Rhinella marina

Insufficient data

Johnstone's Whistling Frog

Eleutherodactylus johnstonei

Insufficient data

Banana Tree Dwelling Frog

Boana platanera

20–30% · Possible

Sighting Calendar

Chance of spotting each species, month by month

Species Total

40–50

30–40

40–50

50–60

40–50

40–50

30–40

30–40

30–40

20–30

30–40

30–40

Groove-billed Toucanet

20–30

20–30

40–50

50–60

30–40

40–50

10–20

30–40

40–50

20–30

10–20

40–50

Helmeted Curassow

<5

20–30

20–30

40–50

<5

10–20

<5

<5

<5

<5

0–10

20–30

Ursine Howler Monkey

30–40

0–10

0–10

0–10

0–10

0–10

0–10

0–10

30–40

20–30

0–10

0–10

30–40

30–40

40–50

20–30

40–50

20–30

30–40

20–30

40–50

30–40

40–50

20–30

Blue-gray Tanager

60–70

60–70

80–90

80–90

80–90

90–100

50–60

70–80

70–80

40–50

50–60

50–60

Bay-headed Tanager

10–20

30–40

20–30

40–50

30–40

50–60

40–50

60–70

50–60

60–70

20–30

40–50

40–50

40–50

50–60

60–70

60–70

50–60

40–50

20–30

40–50

30–40

40–50

20–30

Pale-breasted Thrush

40–50

50–60

60–70

50–60

50–60

50–60

50–60

30–40

30–40

30–40

30–40

20–30

70–80

50–60

50–60

60–70

50–60

70–80

40–50

10–20

30–40

10–20

60–70

40–50

Tropical Kingbird

60–70

40–50

50–60

50–60

40–50

60–70

50–60

20–30

30–40

10–20

40–50

50–60

40–50

30–40

50–60

50–60

50–60

40–50

20–30

20–30

10–20

30–40

40–50

30–40

Southern House Wren

60–70

40–50

40–50

60–70

50–60

30–40

30–40

10–20

10–20

10–20

30–40

70–80

Tropical Parula

30–40

40–50

30–40

60–70

20–30

50–60

10–20

20–30

30–40

20–30

20–30

40–50

Scaly-breasted Wren

10–20

30–40

20–30

50–60

30–40

50–60

30–40

50–60

50–60

20–30

10–20

10–20

Orange-bellied Euphonia

10–20

20–30

10–20

30–40

20–30

10–20

20–30

30–40

40–50

70–80

10–20

40–50

50–60

20–30

40–50

50–60

50–60

10–20

20–30

20–30

40–50

10–20

40–50

40–50

Animal Events

🐦 Portachuelo Pass Bird Migration

🦎 Iguanas and Caimans in the Dry Months

🐒 Howlers and Toucanets in the Cloud Forest

🐸 Frogs Call in the Rains

Sighting Zones

Warm areas are where all species together are recorded most, so they track where people go as much as where animals are. For one species, see the map on its own page.

0.0 ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Good

🦥 Sloth and Toucanet Cloud Forest

🦜

Biodiversity

Very good

How rich is the wildlife?

4.3 Global avg

4.7 ★★★★★ ★★★★★

Species by taxon

🦅 Birds

820

🐒 Mammals

263

🦎 Reptiles

128

🐸 Amphibians

57

1268 Total Species

841 Global average across 280 parks

48 Threatened 94 Endemic

🔭

Sighting

Good

How likely to see animals?

3.6 Global avg

2.4 ★★★★★ ★★★★★

🎯

Top-12 Avg Probability

62% Global avg

42%

📊

Coverage (261 species at ≥5% of 1268 in the inventory)

24% Global avg

21%

🔀

Taxon variety in top 12 (11 bird, 1 reptile)

47% Global avg

20%

🔭

Species per 10 outings (distinct species a visitor would meet over 10 outings — effort held equal across parks)

132 Global avg

199

🌟

Iconic-group species (≥15%) (every species from the 19 iconic groups — monkeys, cats, toucans, macaws, sloths, crocodilians… — not just the 4 highlighted above)

14 Global avg

9

⭐

High-prob species (>40%)

26 Global avg

6

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