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    Mexico Birding Advice!

    Hi all, I'm off next week for a month in Mexico on a trip with my partner. I'm from the UK and I have never been to the country before and would love some advice for seeing some wonderful New World species!:) I'll be starting in Mexico City before heading to Oaxaca, and then Puerto Escondido in...
  2. Russet-naped Wood Rail

    Russet-naped Wood Rail

    This beautiful Russet-naped Wood Rail crept out of the mangroves and stayed there for several minutes, while I was able to photograph quietly from a boat. I included this picture in my notes on Celestun, which includes several other birds and a section on how flamingos evolved...
    • notesfromtheroad
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    • mexico rail wood rail yucatan
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  3. Yucatan Black Howling Monkey

    Yucatan Black Howling Monkey

    AKA Guatemalan. It is interesting to hear this sound right after you have had a conversation about Jaguar. This particular individual was observant, but he was not agressive, though.
    • njlarsen
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    • calakmul mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Wild Mammals
  4. Turquoise-browed Motmot

    Turquoise-browed Motmot

    This short-tailed bird really has lost half its tail length because the rackets fell off.
    • njlarsen
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    • eumomota superciliosa mexico uxmal yucatan
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  5. Ocellated Turkey

    Ocellated Turkey

    Second shot of a different, much closer bird, but also in poorer light (iso 1250)
    • njlarsen
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    • calakmul meleagris ocellata mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  6. Ocellated Turkey

    Ocellated Turkey

    This was part of a flock of about 9 that was crossing the access road to Calakmul when we drove in. I know one of them looks like it is getting ready to fly, but it actually just stretched.
    • njlarsen
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    • calakmul meleagris ocellata mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  7. Herons at sunset

    Herons at sunset

    At the end of the day, Great Blue Herons (probably!) fly off into the sunset. Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
    • IVANHOE
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    • herons mexico sunset yucatan
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  8. Reddish Egret at sunrise

    Reddish Egret at sunrise

    Taken at sunrise in the wetlands near the city of Merida, Yucatan.
    • IVANHOE
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    • mexico reddish egret yucatan
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Competition Winners
  9. Frozen silhouette!

    Frozen silhouette!

    A Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) is drawn as a silhouette by the early morning light in the wetlands near Merida, Yucatn, as it makes its approach to land in ankle-deep water, feet first.
    • IVANHOE
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    • mexico reddish egret yucatan
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Kowa Competition (Closed)
  10. Black Iguana

    Black Iguana

    • njlarsen
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    • black spiny-tailed iguana yucatan
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Reptiles
  11. Unknown Lizard

    Unknown Lizard

    This one I saw on a couple of occasions (unless there are several similar species). It never wanted to come out in the open, staying in the pretty dark shadow. This is one attempt at showing it.
    • njlarsen
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    • mexico quintana roo striped basilisk (basiliscus vittatus) vigia chico rd yucatan
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Reptiles
  12. Social Flycatcher

    Social Flycatcher

    Another photo of this flycatcher which was very common and always good looking in Yucatan
    • njlarsen
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    • hazienda chichen mexico myiozetetes similis yucatan
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  13. Turquoise-browed Motmot

    Turquoise-browed Motmot

    It is just too difficult uploading only one shot of these wonderful birds ...
    • njlarsen
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    • eumomota superciliosa las coloradas rd mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  14. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

    Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

    This is the backside, showing the dark marks on the back of the head that looks like fake eyes.
    • njlarsen
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    • glaucidium brasilianum hazienda chichen mexico ridgwayi yucatan
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  15. Magnificent Frigatebird flying

    Magnificent Frigatebird flying

    This is the advantage of being a little above ground, the birds are more or less on your level. This was taken from the balcony in front of the hotel room we stayed in at Rio Lagartos (Villa de Pescadores), and the image has not been cropped.
    • njlarsen
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    • fregata magnificens male mexico rio lagartos yucatan
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  16. Turkey Vulture

    Turkey Vulture

    • njlarsen
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    • cathartes aura las coloradas rd mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  17. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher juvenile

    Blue-gray Gnatcatcher juvenile

    This one spent its time preening and waiting for the adult to return with food
    • njlarsen
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    • las coloradas rd mexico polioptila caerulea yucatan
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  18. Black Spiny-tailed Iguana

    Black Spiny-tailed Iguana

    Looking at a picture like this, I am happy it is not larger and agressive ;)
    • njlarsen
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    • las coloradas rd mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Reptiles
  19. Golden-fronted Woodpecker

    Golden-fronted Woodpecker

    The Yucatan subspecies (Velasquez's Woodpecker)
    • njlarsen
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    • hazienda chichen melanerpes aurifrons mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  20. A little drama part 2

    A little drama part 2

    I though I might as well show the follow up shot
    • njlarsen
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    • altamira eumomota superciliosa icterus gularis las coloradas rd mexico motmot oriole turquoise-browed yucatan
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  21. A little drama

    A little drama

    The Altamira Oriole was sitting on the branch facing me until the Turquoise-browed Motmot all of a sudden came sneaking up on it (it is actually flying inches behind the oriole). On this photo the oriole is in the process of turning around, in the following photo, it has its head turned to the...
    • njlarsen
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    • eumomota superciliosa icterus gularis las coloradas rd mexico turquoise-browed motmot altamira oriole yucatan
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  22. Black Iguana

    Black Iguana

    Or Black Spiny-tailed Iguana -- funny animals to see ...
    • njlarsen
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    • chichen itza mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Reptiles
  23. Turquoise-browed Motmot

    Turquoise-browed Motmot

    • njlarsen
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    • chichen itza eumomota superciliosa mexico yucatan
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  24. Masked Tityra

    Masked Tityra

    I like this as a habitat shot, the bird hunting in the jumble of branches
    • njlarsen
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    • hazienda chichen mexico tityra semifasciata yucatan
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  25. Social Flycatcher

    Social Flycatcher

    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • hazienda chichen mexico myiozetetes similis yucatan
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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