10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

These arid hills, cloaked in a mosaic of deciduous scrub and desert vegetation, form a northern outpost for several Neotropical species while also harboring several key endemics and southwestern Nearctic species. Mexico is great for those who love biogeography! Think Arizona meets Costa Rica with a Mexican twist.

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MAY 24, 2020

North America is home to many amazing bird species, including several which require a special effort to see and appreciate. New Mexico Nature & Culture. These colorful songbirds occur in two populations, a western one which winters in Mexico and Central America and an eastern one which winters in South Florida and Cuba.

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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.* Other species are splits and lumped and have had their names changed. © 2023 by Steve N.

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MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species. by Marybeth Lima.

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10,000 Birds

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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DECEMBER 29, 2013

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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10,000 Birds

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. So why am I focusing on that species in this post?

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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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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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JULY 7, 2021

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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Barn Owls Owls Mexico Leopards 251

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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. Honesty requires that I confess to having seen none of these species. These species are visually very similar, with subtle differences in their tail patterns.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As I result, January gave me my slowest start for Michoacán in four years, as far as my number of species is concerned. I missed some regulars, but they were replaced by surprise species. Unlike this article’s header photo, this second shot shows the mistletoe berries which are this species’ favorite food.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Our company is based in Guatemala but also offers tours in Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico. Whether you are traveling with your family, in a small group, or alone, our tours are customizable to suit your every need and wish. Guatemala has the most reliable places to observe the mythical Horned Guan.

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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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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. What I didn’t realize, at the time, was that this pulp is also enjoyed by many bird species.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

We are too far into the year for many FOY sightings, but not quite far enough for most migratory species to make their return appearances. No surprise to that; these two species always initiate the migratory season here. This is not the first time el Temascal has surprised me with its combination of high and low species.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Still, the outing did not produce any new species for the year, or enough good photos for a post here. Instead, I have chosen to write about an idea I’ve had percolating for a while: to tell you what the most common species are down here. I’ll take the most common native species in taxonomic order.

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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. And there is some sweetness in these bittersweet months. They are our summer consolation prizes.

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OCTOBER 29, 2022

The stars of the bird world take many forms and fame is often related to location but some species, some cool groups of birds are accorded priority no matter when or where they are seen. One such star avian family is the Setophagidae, the birds known as wood-warblers. In fact, the first one I ever saw was a wintering bird in Mexico.

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MAY 5, 2021

21 species is less than 6% of the total number of hummingbird species in the Americas.) 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!). The post Emeralds!

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APRIL 20, 2022

So I didn’t really expect to see many new species on this visit. With ten species I had not seen previously this year, my April 11th visit to Paso Ancho was my best outing since February 14th, back when it was a whole lot easier to find FOY species. I had already visited the lowland town of Paso Ancho in January.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

One always wants to see as many species as possible in a single day, whether on an ocean island with few species, or in Suffolk, England. It was in this latter region that he reports seeing 60 species on his first outing of this year. But how many species can one see over a few hours in the highlands of central Mexico?

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JUNE 23, 2021

When it comes to wrens, central Mexico has it pretty good. We share seven resident species with different parts of the United States: the Rock , Canyon , Cactus , (Brown-throated) House , Marsh , Sedge , and Bewick’s Wren can all be seen within a half hour of Morelia. (I First, they answered “my” song.

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JUNE 25, 2019

This is an easy species for me to see in my region — any time BUT in summer. The winter-only nature of migratory species can cause other name problems, such as with the Indigo Bunting. This species used to be called the Rufous-sided Towhee, which was a perfectly functional name for our resident subspecies. Well, no more!

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10,000 Birds

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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In August, we took a family trip to beautiful San Diego, seeing SeaWorld , LegoLand , and the San Diego Zoo. Additionally, there are still a few regularly-occurring Pacific pelagic species that I have never seen. But I took a day for myself for a 12-hour pelagic trip sponsored by Buena Vista Audubon. Then we headed back.

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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. Thanks again, Fabián!

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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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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Should you ever come to bird in central Mexico, and you are only interested in our wonderful endemics, feel free to come in the summer. Nevertheless, by 3 pm I had totaled 69 species — with another 3 that I identified later in my photos! Or this Blue – gray Gnatcatcher, a species that seems to be everywhere here in winter.

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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. The number of bird species to be found, falls dramatically, but we can always rely on our impressive populations of Herons, egrets and even a few rails to keep our birding juices flowing.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Necessity being the mother of invention, and all that, the almost-total disappearance of Mexico’s second-largest lake in the spring of 2021 forced me to try a new birding route last May. Admittedly, early May is too late to find most duck species in Michoacán, even in a good year.) Spoiler alert: I did not see any Canvasbacks.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Working man that I still am, I can not yet spend every day of January trying to build my year list of species. But in winter, one of its major species is a migrant with a wonderfully quirky name: the Lucifer Hummingbird. As far as I can tell, Swainson never visited Mexico. So I pick each outing for maximum effect.

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MAY 12, 2021

And many of these species are also strikingly beautiful. 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 In an already endemic-rich part of the world, this is where the concentration of endemics is highest. But enough about me!

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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. The oldest known Golden Eagle was over 30 years old, and as a species they prefer open and semi-open landscapes. ” The bird is massive. ” Crested Caracara.

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MAY 29, 2019

This town sits at the edge of a river in Mexico’s Tierra Caliente (Hot Country), an inland basin between the coastal Sierra Madre del Sur and the much higher Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. However, some of Paso Ancho’s most beautiful species are to be seen right along that river. Then it got an upgrade. If you read the U.S.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Spring is in the air, and all around the Baja desert I am seeing a plethora of species, all looking for love, in what appears to the right places. A member of the small Ptiliogonatidae family of silky-flycatchers, of which there are only three other species besides our local Phainopepla , Phainopepl nitens.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count.

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