Yucatan January 2017 - Birds, Bikes, and Fish (1 Viewer)

[ovenbird43]

Summary and Species List

In total I saw 197 species, 16 of which were lifers (all Yucatan endemics/near-endemics or Caribbean specialties) + 17 if counting Cozumel/House Wren. I missed two Yucatan endemics, Yucatan Nightjar (not too surprising) and Orange Oriole (of all the ones to miss, that one??). Ocellated Turkey was the biggest surprise, the one I was certain I would miss, but given my brief view I will be on a mission to see it better in the future. Yucatan Poorwill was heard-only, but I count those in many cases. Gray-throated Chat was my favorite, smashing views of a bird I figured I would likely miss. Of the wintering migrants, Swainson's Warbler was the best find, a bird I've only seen well one other time.

Trip List, lifers in bold:

Thicket Tinamou
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Neotropic Cormorant
Anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
American Flamingo
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
Osprey
Common Black Hawk
Roadside Hawk
White-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
Laughing Falcon
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Plain Chachalaca
Great Curassow
Ocellated Turkey
Yucatan Bobwhite
Ruddy Crake
Common Gallinule
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Kelp Gull
Herring Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer
Feral Pigeon
Red-billed Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Zenaida Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Ruddy Ground-Dove
Blue Ground-Dove
White-tipped Dove
Caribbean Dove
Olive-throated Parakeet
White-fronted Parrot
Yucatan Parrot
Squirrel Cuckoo
Groove-billed Ani
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Mottled Owl
Paraque
Yucatan Poorwill
Vaux's Swift
Wedge-tailed Sabrewing
Green-breasted Mango
Cozumel Emerald
White-bellied Emerald
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Mexican Sheartail
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Collared Aracari
Keel-billed Toucan
Yucatan Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Golden-olive Woodpecker
Lineated Woodpecker
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
Olivaceous Woodcreeper
Northern Barred Woodcreeper
Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
Barred Antshrike
Black-faced Antthrush
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
Caribbean Elaenia
Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Northern Bentbill
Slaty-headed Tody-Flycatcher
Eye-ringed Flatbill
Yellow-olive Flycatcher
Stub-tailed Spadebill
Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher
Tropical Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher
Bright-rumped Attilla
Yucatan Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Boat-billed Flycatcher
Social Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Couch's Kingbird
Masked Tityra
Mangrove Swallow
Green Jay
Brown Jay
Yucatan Jay
Yucatan Wren
Spot-breasted Wren
Carolina Wren
White-bellied Wren
Cozumel (House) Wren
Long-billed Gnatwren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Tropical Gnatcatcher
Wood Thrush
Clay-colored Thrush
Gray Catbird
Black Catbird
Tropical Mockingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Mangrove Vireo
Cozumel Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Yucatan Vireo
Lesser Greenlet
Rufous-browed Peppershrike
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Swainson's Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Grey-throated Chat
Bananaquit
Scrub Euphonia
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Yellow-winged Tanager
Red-throated Ant-Tanager
Rose-throated Tanager
Summer Tanager
Black-headed Saltator
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Bunting
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Green-backed Sparrow
Blue-black Grassquit
White-collared Seedeater
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Red-winged Blackbird
Melodious Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Hooded Oriole
Yellow-backed Oriole
Altamira Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Yellow-billed Cacique

 

[stuartvine]

Very enjoyable report

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Great stuff. Wow, that's an impressive number of specialities on your trip list that you'd already seen before the trip! Hope to bump into you again somewhere :t:

 

[ovenbird43]

Great stuff. Wow, that's an impressive number of specialities on your trip list that you'd already seen before the trip! Hope to bump into you again somewhere :t:

:t:

Well this was my 8th trip to Mexico, plus I'd gotten a couple of the Yucatan endemics in Belize and have been to Costa Rica several times. But more trips to Mexico are in my future, Oaxaca is high on my must-do list!

 

[Hamhed]

We haven't been to the Yucatan for too long now so thanks for stirring up some memories!

Steve

 

[dandsblair]

Agreed - very enjoyable

Very enjoyable report

Thanks for posting