10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Today I will cover another one of Mexico’s Baja Peninsulas characters, the Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo Albonotatus. Given the scavenger feeding habits of the Turkey Vultures , the small mammals and birds that are on the menu for the Zone-tailed hawks are lulled into complacency by the lack of threat from the vultures.

Tail Banding 100

Tail Banding Turkey Paraguay Mexico 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India. 1401-1600 sp: Ecuador, Bolivia; Indonesia. 801-1000 sp. –

Equatorial Guinea 195

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 195

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

For a bird that is only hours from starving to death at any given time, it is no small feat to traverse the 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico! As it streaks across the Andean skies of Bolivia and Argentina with its flashy tail, its not hard to see how this bird got the name “comet&#. hummers on earth. Coming in at no.

Colombia 279

Colombia Ecuador Bolivia Peru 279