My second week didn't present many birding opportunities, but I still saw some fantastic birds, including Plain Chachalacas in the spectacular setting of Tulum, a Yellow-throated Vireoin a Merida park and a host of endemics during a morning on Cozumel.
Time for lunch? Turkey Vulture in Cozumel
Urban Yellow-throated Vireo
And what could beat swimming in a cenote with a hunting Green Heron only feet away..
Here's a complete list with locations (P = Progreso, Ce = Celestun, Ca = Campeche, U = Ux Mal, Co = Cozumel, Ck = Calakmul)
Least Grebe - 3 Ck
Brown Pelican - common on all coasts
Double-crested Cormorants - Common, including huge breeding colony at Ca
Neotropic Cormorant - common
Magnificent Frigatebird - common
Bare-throated Tiger Heron - mangroves Ce
Great Blue Heron - P lagoons
Great, Snowy, Cattle Egrets - common
Little Blue Heron - P
Tricolored Heron - P
Reddish Egret - Ce
Green Heron - mangroves, Tulum
Black-crowned Night Heron - Ce
Yellow-crowned Night Heron - Ce
Boat-billed Heron - Ce and Co
White Ibis - common
Glossy Ibis - Ck
Roseate Spoonbill - P
American Flamingo - P
Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 2 at Ck (Laguna S.)
Blue-winged Teal
Black and Turkey Vultures - common
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture - Ce
Osprey - Ce
Crane Hawk - U
Common Black Hawk - Ce
Grey Hawk, Roadside Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk -Cancun
Collared Forest Falcon - 1 U
Bat Falcon - pair Ck
Peregrine Falcon
Crested Caracara
Plain Chachalaca - 2 at Tulum, 2 at U
Ocellated Turkey - 2 Ck Access Road
American Purple Gallinule, Northern Jacana - L.S. (Ck)
Black-bellied Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Willet, Black-necked Stilt, Ruddy Turnstone, Short-billed Dowitcher, Spotted Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper - all Ca
Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs - P
Laughing Gull, Ring-billed Gull - P
Royal Tern, Caspian Tern, Sandwich Tern - P
Common Tern - Ce
Black Skimmer - Ca
White-winged Dove - common
Red- billed Pigeon -Cancun
White-tipped Dove - 2 Ck
Common, Ruddy Ground Doves - common
Caribbean Dove - 1 Cozumel
Aztec Parakeet - common
White-fronted Parrot - Ck
Lesser Nighthawk - common
Vaux's Swift
White-bellied Emerald - Ck, Green-breasted Mango - 2 Ce, Mexican Sheartail - P, Cinnamon Hummingbird - common
Blue-crowned Motmot - U, Turqoise-browed Motmot - U
Pale-billed Woodpecker - Ck, Golden-fronted Woodpecker - common, Ladder-back - Ce
Yellow-olive Flycatcher - Chichen Itza
Tropical Peewee - Ck
Vermilion Flycatcher - Ce
Brown-crested Flycatcher - 1 P, Great-crested Flycatcher - 1 Ce
Great Kiskadee, Boat-billed Flycatcher, Social Flycatcher - common
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher -Coba Ruins
Tropical Kingbird, Couch's Kingbird -P
Eastern Kingbird - 1 Ce
Rose-throated Becard - common
Purple Martin - 4 P, 1 U
Mangrove Swallow - common
Rough-winged Swallow, Ridgways RWS - Progreso (3)
Bank Swallow, Cave Swallow - nesting in U, Barn Swallow - common
Green Jay - 6 at U, 3 at Ce
Brown Jay - common Ck
Yucatan Jay - common
White-bellied Wren - 2 Ck, Yucatan Wren - local, P, Cozumel Wren - 1 at Co
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher - common, White-lored Gnatcatcher common at P
Wood Thrush - 1 Ck, Clay-coloured Robin - common
Grey Catbird - 2 P, Tropical Mockingbird - common
Yucatan Vireo - Co, Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Merida,
Warblers:Orange-crowned (P), Northern Parula ( 8 P), Yellow (common), Mangrove (P), Chestnut-sided (1 at Co), Magnolia (4 Ck), Black-and-White ( 1 Ck), Palm (Ce 6), American Redstart ( Ck), Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded Warbler (1 Ck), Tennessee Warbler (3 P), Wilson's Warbler
Bananaquit - Cozumel race ( common on Co)
White-winged Tanager - 1 Ck
Greyish, Black-throated Saltator - 4 of each U
Indigo Bunting, Blue Bunting, Varied Bunting - common at Ck
Red-winged Blackbird, Bronzed Cowbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Great-tailed Grackle (common), Melodious Blackbird ( common)
Hooded Oriole, Orange Oriole, Altamira Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Orchard Oriole
144 sp, 37 new for Mexico
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