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My Favorite Mexican Birdsongs

10,000 Birds

It is not that close of a relative of the Northern Mockingbird , being in the same family, but a different genus. White-striped Woodcreeper : Faraaz Abdool recently wrote about Trinidad and Tobago’s wonderful Woodcreepers , and this one is the Woodcreeper of western Mexico’s pine-oak forests. The site is much-degraded now.)

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

This totally crazy bird is the crème de la crème of the cracid family, and besides being endangered (population estimated at under 2,500), its habitat choice of cloudforests on the steep slopes of a few volcanoes and mountains in southern Mexico and south-western Guatemala makes it a tough bird to seek. Secondly, well just look at it.

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