Kino Bay, Mexico (1 Viewer)

Hi everone! I just got back from a three week field course at my college's station in Kino Bay, Mexico. The course was in natural history and cultural ecology, which covers a lot of ground in a short time. I was able to see quite a few birds during the course, but only had a pair of 8x20 bins so couldn't id as many as I saw. We took several ponga trips to some of the islands in the gulf and saw a lot of seabirds breeding. we also saw dolphins, whales, and a special treat of having a family of Orcas swim along with our ponga-check out the attached photo! I'll post more photos in the gallery. Anyway, here is a list of what I could id:

Sooty Shearwater
Black Storm-Petrel
Least Storm-Petrel
Brown Pelican
Brown Booby
Blue-Footed Booby
Magnifcent Frigatebird
Red-Billed Tropicbird
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Reddish Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Green Heron
Black-Crowned Night Heron
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
White Faced Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Harris's Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawk
Osprey
American Kestrel
Perigrine Falcon
Gambel's Quail
Wilson's Plover
American Oystercatcher
Long-Billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Willet
Laughing Gull
Yellow-Footed Gull
Heermann's Gull
Black Tern
Least Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Elegant Tern
Forster's Tern
White-Winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Great Horned Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Broad-Billed Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
Gila Woodpecker
Vermillion Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Common Raven
Violet-Green Swallow
Verdin
Cactus Wren
Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher
Mangrove Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Black-Throated Sparrow
Rufous-Winged Sparrow
Hooded Oriole
Great-Tailed Grackle
House Finch
House Sparrow

Now I have a week to prepare then its off to Costa Rica for my tropical biology course- I can't wait!

Stu,
Nice list. Thanks for posting the report. I was curious to see what birds you would get there. It's an area I haven't made it to YET. A lot of your seabirds would be lifers for me and that White-faced Ibis. Hope (KNOW) you'll enjoy Costa Rica. Buen Viaje!