Birds found in a different city park in Mérida:
Ruddy Ground Dove:
Tropical Kingbird:
The Yucatán Jay, like most jays, is noisy and sociable.
I always like finding birds with the place in their name, here is another!
It is found in the Yucatán and small parts of neighboring states.
More birds from Mérida's Acuaparque:
Tricolored Heron:
The Cinnamon Hummingbird is found in parts of Mexico and Central America:
Limpkins, photographed at Mérida's Acuaparque, in October of this year:
The juvenile Gray Hawk is brown, with streaking on the belly.
This youngster made repeated forays through Mérida's Acuaparque while I was there, but I never saw it successfully catch anything.
Photographed in October of this year.
The Scrub Euphonia is a colorful bird found from eastern Mexico to Costa Rica.
Here is one photographed at Acuaparque, a city park in Mérida, in October of this year:
A Tropical Mockingbird:
Another:
More birds from Acuaparque, in Mérida:
The Northern Jacana is found in much of Mexico and Central America.
It has HUGE feet, which help it walk on lily pads.
A juvenile:
A Belted Kingfisher:
I spent two mornings birding at the Acuaparque, a city park in Mérida.
When I visited most of the park was completely flooded, but that did not keep it from being an excellent area for birding.
A Green Heron:
Another:
A Snowy Egret eats breakfast:
More birds photographed the same morning near Progreso, Yucatán:
The Tropical Mockingbird looks and acts like our Northern Mockingbird. It is found in the tropics of the Yucatán, and parts of Central and South America:
Though I've seen or photographed hundreds of Vermilion Flycatchers in California, the Southwest U.S., Mexico and South America, this is my favorite photo of the species so far:
The Groove-billed Ani would rank high in a competition for strange-looking birds. Perhaps their mothers think they are beautiful.
I actually think they are pretty cool looking!
Here is one near Progreso, Yucatán:
Anis seem to enjoy togetherness:
As do dove species. Here are Ruddy Ground Doves photographed the same morning near Progreso:
More warblers photographed not far from Progreso, Yucatán, one morning in October of this year:
The Northern Parula breeds in the eastern half of the United States and Canada, and winters in Mexico and the Caribbean.
As I have birded rarely in the eastern United States, this was a life-bird for me!
This is a female, I have yet to see a male.
The Palm Warbler breeds mostly in Canada, and winters along the gulf and southern Atlantic coast, Caribbean, and the Yucatán.
I had seen Palm Warblers on a previous trip to Ohio:
There are eleven yellowthroat species, all found in the New World.
They are also considered warblers.
The Gray-crowned Yellowthroat is found throughout much of Mexico and Central America, though is not found in wet marshes like the Common Yellowthroat, though this one was not far from water near Progreso. Another life-bird!
I have now seen three species of yellowthroat, so was thrilled to see this one. My previous attempts at seeing a Belding's Yellowthroat in Baja California have been unsuccessful, I will have to try again soon!
