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I even made one trip with the specific purpose of birding on Mexico’s much wetter eastern coast, visiting different sites along the very stretched-out state of Veracruz. That is because, like the skin of the gringos who visit Mexico’s beaches, the Palo de Gringo’s bark is red, and peels.

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So naturally, I got to thinking about kinglets, and their Palearctic kin, the “crests,” and where they belong in the avian family tree. The family Regulidae comprises six small, hyperactive species that range through the great boreal and temperate forests North and Middle America, North Africa, and Eurasia.

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In autumn and winter, they descend these high ridges to avoid the worst of the high winds and blowing snow – sometimes to feeders such as Sandia Crest in New Mexico, where there is a long ongoing study on these fascinatingly tough songbirds. New Mexico Nature & Culture. Want to see rosy-finches on a Naturalist Journeys tour?:

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

If asked, we would answer, “We’ve come from Mexico.” But mostly, planning this trip was hugely stressful because I had to renew my passport beforehand, and it turns out that process is tremendously backed up here in Mexico. and Mexico won’t allow them to be shipped here. ” It’s not a lie.)

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So I contacted him for the exact location, which turned out to be a beautiful 14-acre property that belongs to his family, and he kindly invited me over. and Canada and winter in northeastern Mexico, while the sedentary wrens of central Mexico, Central America, and South America are now to be identified as Grass Wrens.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Ourselves, for instance; just consider how many sweet or gritty stories you’ve seen about Olympic athletes’ family backgrounds over the last few weeks. We’re going to look at its family tree today, at where it fits in the grand avian assemblage, at what makes it at once unique yet not so alone after all. But not all.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s not clear how many of the plates have been touched up, redrawn or are new, and I hope we’ll learn more about the process, perhaps when the third book in the series by Howell and Dyer, a new guide to the birds of Mexico, is published.* Why are these issues? For context, the IOC version 13.1

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MAY 25, 2022

Down here in central Mexico, the Canyon Towhee is a constant presence in open areas, including in my garden and around our church. Earlier this month, I came across a family of Spotted Towhees (Olive-backed) with a couple of other strange aspects. The Spotted Towhee (Olive-backed) is a regular in pine-oak and pine forests.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

This Chat winters along the coast of Mexico and throughout Central America. You may not know that Mexico is part of North, not Central, America.) They were also believed to be part of the Wood Warbler family.

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APRIL 15, 2020

As I mentioned last week, social distancing is widespread but still voluntary here in Mexico, so there are no limitations on being able to get out and enjoy nature. Living in central Mexico, I’m not a big fan of random encounters with passersby. This has determined which places I visit, and which I avoid.

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APRIL 13, 2022

Wood-Wrens , birds of the family Henicorhina , are very small wrens of Central and South America that like to live very close to the ground, in dense forest underbrush or elfin forests. The only one that occurs in western Mexico, where I live, is the Gray-breasted Wood-Wren. I saw a few more Little Friends on this trip.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It wasn’t a lifer — I had seen one on Mexico’s east coast several years before — but it was a big surprise to find one in Michoacán. One group that was mostly absent was the hummingbird family. So I will have to show you colorful birds from other families. It turns out they also winter in my state.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

But how many species can one see over a few hours in the highlands of central Mexico? I should mention, in passing, that this number of species would be considerably larger in Mexico’s tropics. There were lots of Hammond’s Flycatchers around… along with 11 other members of the Tyrant Flycatcher family.

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JUNE 16, 2021

The Trogon family (and order, since the order only includes one family) is quite widespread, being found in all the tropical (and some subtropical) regions of the world. Here in the highlands of central Mexico, we can see (rather easily, as I mentioned above) two trogons: the Mountain Trogon , and the Elegant Trogon.

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MAY 20, 2019

When Paul Lewis reached out to us asking if we were interested in some blog posts about birding in Mexico we were psyched! After all, the beat writer who had been posting about Mexican birds, the amazing Tom, has moved from Mexico and we didn’t have anyone writing about the birds there.

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MARCH 17, 2021

The most common one, Manila tamarind, is wildly inaccurate, since the tree is native to southwestern Mexico, not Manila, and its only connection to tamarind trees is that both are in different subfamilies of the huge legume family. Pithecellobium dulce is a tree with many English names.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Most of this travel was in Mexico, but I also visited different regions of the U.S., The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden.

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inches) and Mexico’s largest hummers ( Rivoli Hummingbird and Blue-throated Mountain-Gem , 6 inches — although they can’t compete with the Andes’ Giant Hummingbird , which is 9 inches long!). 21 species is less than 6% of the total number of hummingbird species in the Americas.) It occurs nowhere else in the world.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

A very vocal (though not too visible) family of Steller’s Jays turned up, which was a shock, because here in central Mexico I had never before seen this conifer-loving species below 2900 m (9500 ft). These birds, however, were seen at “only” 2300 m (7550 ft).

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APRIL 20, 2022

That’s still easier than it would have been in eastern Mexico, where the Tropical and Couch’s Kingbirds can only be distinguished by their songs.) Endemic Dusky Hummingbirds may be unusually drab members of their colorful family. At first, I thought this Tropical Kingbird was a migratory Western Kingbird.

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JUNE 23, 2021

When it comes to wrens, central Mexico has it pretty good. The raucous Spotted and Gray-barred Wrens are in the Cactus Wren family. And when you do get it to come within sight (alas, with playback, always), it can be as bold as any other member of this cocky family. We also receive migratory (Northern) House Wrens in the winter.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Paul Lewis moved from California to Mexico 36 years ago. He lived first in Mexicali, and now in the historic city of Morelia–about halfway between Guadalajara and Mexico City–where he and his wife pastor a small church. Sorry, this photo is actually from the next state over (Lake Zempoala, Mexico state).

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OCTOBER 29, 2022

One such star avian family is the Setophagidae, the birds known as wood-warblers. Despite being a bird that lacks bright colors commonly found in other members of this famed family, the “Wormer” is one of my favorites. In fact, the first one I ever saw was a wintering bird in Mexico.

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MAY 12, 2021

Here are some of the wonderful birds of Mexico’s Hot Country: I’ll start with a bang: What could be better than a Russet-crowned Motmot ? (I Yellow-winged Caciques , showy members of the Blackbird/New World Oriole family, are always conspicuous residents of the region. But enough about me!

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JUNE 28, 2017

As the dog days of summer descend upon us here in Mexico, many of our avian residents have bailed out and headed back north to avoid the summertime heat. I have never encountered the white morph birds here in Mexico, so we have very little problem with identification, that you might find with the all white birds.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In August, we took a family trip to beautiful San Diego, seeing SeaWorld , LegoLand , and the San Diego Zoo. On August 13, 2022, I woke up early, snuck out of the hotel room without waking the rest of the family, and was at Seaforth Landing on Mission Bay by 7:00 a.m. Exactly how that cartographic alchemy works, I do not know.

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MAY 6, 2023

Between March and May, we say goodbye to more than half our duck and wood warbler species, as well as about half of all our shorebirds, vireos, hummingbirds, buntings, sparrows, and orioles, and many members of other avian families. For a few, only a few, species actually winter in Central and South America, and summer up here in Mexico.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Please study the above photo, which I took a half hour from my home in Morelia, Mexico. In central Mexico, “Spotted” Towhees seem to hybridize freely with Collared Towhees , forming what is known as an intergrade. But the sides are still rufous. Can you see the problem? Dear scientists: I know Towhees are complicated.

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MAY 24, 2016

It is found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, taking its place as one of Mexico’s official symbols. Golden Eagles have a global breeding population of around 300,000 birds, 3% of which spend at least part of the year in Mexico. ” The bird is massive. ” Crested Caracara. .”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I often find myself discussing this subject with my birder friends in other regions of Mexico, when they excitedly comment on seeing a bird that I could see any day, anywhere — or vice versa. The Groove-billed Ani is an odd-looking member of the Cuckoo family. The same could happen with U.S. birders, to an even greater degree.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Super Hot-spot: Veracruz River of Raptors, Chichicaxtle, Mexico – Central Flyway. The STK families will be departing the panhandle of Florida, with flights possibly hugging the Gulf coastline. Super Hot-spot: Veracruz River of Raptors, Chichicaxtle, Mexico – Central Flyway. Fall count to date: 58,444. Fall count to date: 18,417.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I have commented before on the privilege and pain of living in a state (Michoacán, Mexico) which hosts 10 out of the 15 Empidonax Flycatchers , as well as at least 4 of the 22 Myiarchus Flycatchers. But those are not the only taxonomic families in which Michoacán has an embarassment of (difficult) riches.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We all have them: families of birds that are maddeningly similar, forever leaving nagging doubts about our identifications. Someday I will get up the nerve to write about the ten, yes, TEN Empidonax species I believe I have seen in my little corner of Mexico. New World Warblers in non-reproductive plumage.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. Birders is directed by Otilia Portillo Padua of Mexico, and was funded by a grant from the Sundance Institute. ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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MARCH 8, 2017

A member of the small Ptiliogonatidae family of silky-flycatchers, of which there are only three other species besides our local Phainopepla , Phainopepl nitens. The Grey-silky Flycatcher Ptilogonys cincerus , the is nearly an endemic of central Mexico, but for a few vagrants who vacation down in Guatemala.

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JULY 10, 2019

They tell me that in the east of Mexico, it is called Tengo-frío (I’m Cold); that works well too. Being of the Tyrant-Flycatcher family, kingbirds are simply called Tiranos, or Tyrants, in Mexico. Make that sing-song-y, and you will never forget its call again. José María! I’m cold!

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