10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The neighbors had advised me, from experience, that planting trees without excluding the local free-ranging livestock would be an exercise in futility: first challenge overcome.) Afforestation is, at least here in Michoacán, a definite long-term project. I started afforesting our church lot in 2016, just after we were able to fence it.

ALA 205

ALA 2016 Free Range Livestock 205

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

The very last Sunday of the decade heralded our final CBC – with group sizes limited to five persons. For the fifth year in a row, I was assigned the prolific and well-known Aripo Livestock Station at the foothills of Trinidad’s Northern Range. Likely a Tropical Screech-Owl , but nothing definitive. Grey-headed Kite.

Trinidad 264

Trinidad Livestock Groups Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It was late December, 2012, and I slotted into a sizable group under the joint leadership of two highly respected birders. As prolific as the area was, the group was on the move. Now – I knew what a Tayra was, and I was definitely aware that few people are lucky enough to see one. A female Collared Trogon in the darkness.

Trinidad 182

Trinidad Livestock 2015 Groups 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2017

In 2012, a petition to delist was filed by ranching and agriculture groups and conservative legal organizations. Our analysis indicates the known threats at the time of listing, habitat loss through land use changes, livestock grazing, and vegetation succession, and brown-headed cowbird parasitism, are reduced or adequately managed.

Endangered Species 137

Endangered Species Species Texas Oklahoma 137