MEXICO’S YUCATAN PENINSULA March 23-31, 2013
Areas birded:
Cozumel Island – 5.6 Km Forest Road, San Gervasio Ruins & entrance road
Quintana Roo – Playa Del Carmen area, Chunyaxche, Muyil Ruins, Tulum Ruins, Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, rural Coba, Lago Coba, Coba Ruins
Yucatan – Valladolid area, Ek Balam Ruins, Rio Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Los Coloradas Road, Hacianda Chichen, Chichen Itza Ruins, rural Dzitnup
Bold = Yucatan Endemic (including subspecies) * = Lifers (including endemic subspecies)
BIRD LIST
Thicket Tinamou* American Flamingo Least Grebe American Wigeon Pied-billed Grebe Blue-winged Teal American White Pelican Northern Shoveler Brown Pelican Redhead Neotropic Cormorant Lesser Scaup Double-crested Cormorant Osprey Anhinga Crane Hawk Magnificent Frigatebird Gray Hawk Least Bittern Common Black-Hawk Great Blue Heron Roadside Hawk Great Egret Short-tailed Hawk Snowy Egret White-tailed Hawk Little Blue Heron Crested Caracara Tricolored Heron Laughing Falcon Reddish Egret Merlin Cattle Egret Peregrine Falcon Green Heron Plain Chachalaca Boat-billed Heron Black-throated Bobwhite* White Ibis Singing Quail Black Vulture Ruddy Crake* Turkey Vulture Clapper Rail Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture* American Coot Limpkin “Guatemalan” Vermiculated Screech-Owl Black-bellied Plover Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Wilson’s Plover Lesser Nighthawk Semipalmated Plover Common Pauraque Killdeer Yucatan Poorwill* Black-necked Stilt Yucatan Nightjar* Northern Jacana Vaux’s Swift Greater Yellowlegs Wedge-tailed Sabrewing* Lesser Yellowlegs Green-breasted Mango Willet Cozumel Emerald* Marbled Godwit Canivet’s Emerald Ruddy Turnstone White-bellied Emerald* Sanderling Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Semipalmated Sandpiper Buff-bellied Hummingbird Western Sandpiper Cinnamon Hummingbird Least Sandpiper Mexican Sheartail* Dunlin Ruby-throated Hummingbird Stilt Sandpiper Black-headed Trogon Short-billed Dowitcher Gartered Trogon Laughing Gull Blue-crowned Motmot Ring-billed Gull Turquoise-browed Motmot Herring Gull Ringed Kingfisher Lesser Black-backed Gull Belted Kingfisher Gull-billed Tern Keel-billed Toucan Caspian Tern Yucatan Woodpecker* Royal Tern Golden-fronted Woodpecker Sandwich Tern Ladder-backed Woodpecker Forster’s Tern Lineated Woodpecker Least Tern Pale-billed Woodpecker Black Skimmer Olivaceous Woodcreeper Rock Pigeon Northern Barred-Woodcreeper Red-billed Pigeon Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Eurasian Collared-Dove Barred Antshrike White-winged Dove “Mexican” Black-faced Antthrush Zenaida Dove Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet Common Ground-Dove Greenish Elaenia Ruddy Ground-Dove Caribbean Elaenia White-tipped Dove Yellow-bellied Elaenia Caribbean Dove* Northern Bentbill Olive-throated Parakeet Yellow-olive Flycatcher (Flatbill) White-fronted Parrot Stub-tailed Spadebill Yellow-lored Parrot* Tropical Pewee Squirrel Cuckoo Willow Flycatcher Pheasant Cuckoo* Bright-rumped Attila Lesser Roadrunner* Yucatan Flycatcher* Groove-billed Ani Dusky-capped Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Blue-winged Warbler Brown-crested Flycatcher Northern Parula Great Kiskadee Yellow Warbler Boat-billed Flycatcher “Cozumel Golden” Yellow Warbler* Social Flycatcher Magnolia Warbler Tropical Kingbird “Myrtle” Yellow-rumped Warbler Couch’s Kingbird Black-throated Green Warbler Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Warbler Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Palm Warbler Masked Tityra Black & White Warbler Black-crowned Tityra* American Redstart White-eyed Vireo Prothonotary Warbler Mangrove Vireo* Worm-eating Warbler Cozumel Vireo* Ovenbird Yellow-throated Vireo Louisiana Waterthrush Red-eyed Vireo Kentucky Warbler Yucatan Vireo* Common Yellowthroat Lesser Greenlet Gray-crowned Yellowthroat Rufous-browed Peppershrike Hooded Warbler “Cozumel” Rufous-browed Gray-throated Chat* Peppershrike* Bananaquit “Yucatan” Green Jay* “Cozumel” Bananaquit* Brown Jay Red-legged Honeycreeper Yucatan Jay* Scrub Euphonia Purple Martin Yellow-throated Euphonia Mangrove Swallow Blue-gray Tanager Northern Rough-winged Swallow Yellow-winged Tanager “Ridgeway’s” No. Rough-winged Gray-headed Tanager Swallow* Red-throated Ant-Tanager Cliff Swallow Rose-throated Tanager* “Mexican” Cave Swallow Summer Tanager Barn Swallow Grayish Saltator Yucatan Wren* Black-headed Saltator Spot-breasted Wren Northern Cardinal “White-browed” Carolina Wren* Rose-breasted Grosbeak “Southern” House Wren Blue Bunting* White-bellied Wren Blue Grosbeak Long-billed Gnatwren Indigo Bunting Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Olive Sparrow “Cozumel” Blue-gray Gnatcatcher* Green-backed Sparrow* White-lored Gnatcatcher Blue-black Grassquit Tropical Gnatcatcher White-Collared Seedeater Clay-colored Thrush Yellow-faced Grassquit Gray Catbird “Cozumel” Yellow-faced Grassquit* Black Catbird* Botteri’s Sparrow Tropical Mockingbird Song Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Yellow-backed Oriole Melodious Blackbird Yellow-tailed Oriole Great-tailed Grackle Orange Oriole* Bronzed Cowbird Altamira Oriole Black-cowled Oriole Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole Yellow-billed Cacique Hooded Oriole
MAMMALS
Bat species Gray Fox Coyote Yucatan Squirrel* Eastern Cottontail Collared Peccary Nine-banded Armadillo
REPTILES
Frog species House Gecko Brown Basilisk Yucatan Spinytail Iguana* Black Iguana Green Iguana Yucatan Spiny Lizard* Anole species Yucatan Blunthead Snake (roadkill)
BUTTERFLIES
Pipevine Swallowtail Polydamas Swallowtail Cattleheart sp. Dark Kite-Swallowtail* Kite-Swallowtail sp. Whites/Sulphurs species Mexican Cycadian* Blue sp. Mexican Fritillary Zebra Heliconian Erato Heliconian Tropical Buckeye White Peacock Common Morpho Double-spotted Owl-Butterfly* Satyr sp. Monarch Queen Skipper species