Fall Migration Bird Count

Image © David R. Beebe, 1997 - Used with permission.
Birders converged at Caribbean Villas Hotel for the annual Fall Migration Bird Count. 108 species were spotted during the week long event. An amazing 81 were identified at Caribbean Villa's bird sanctuary. While these and other species were found in nearby areas on Ambergris Caye.

A unique feature of this birding week is that much of the birding was not done on foot but rather via electric golf carts.

Here is a list of the birds that were seen:
Anhinga
Brown Pelican
Magnificent Frigate
Double-crested Cormorant
Olivaceous Cormorant
Royal Tem
Least Tern
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Semipalmated Plover
Snowy Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Collared Plover
Golden Plover
Whimbrel
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper

Ruddy Turnstone

Little Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron (white phase)
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Cattle Egret
Green-backed Heron
Reddish Egret
Louisiana Heron (tri-colored)
White This
Wood Stork
Black-necked stilt Roseate Spoonbill
Willet
Short-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs

Northern Water Thrush
Wood Thrush
Ringed Kingfisher
Belted Kingfishta -
Green Kingfisher

Osprey
Black Hawk
Grey Hawk
Merlin
Turkey Vulture
Chachalaca
Lesser Night Hawk

White-crowned Pigeon
Caribbean Dove
White-winged Dove
Common Ground Dove

Aztec Parakeet

Mangrove Swallow
Cliff Swallow

Gray-breasted Martin


Graceful/Tropical Mocking Bird
Black Catbird

Summer Tanager
Black-headed Saltator

Blue Grosbeak

Am Red Start Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black and White Warbler
Yellowthroated Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Mangrove Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Northern Parula Warbler
Prothrothonotary Warbler
Tenn. Warbler
Yellow Warbler

Mangrove Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Viero
Bananaquit
Oven Bird

Great-tailed Grackle

Baltimore Oriole
Hooded Oriole
Altamira
Orchard Oriole
Yellow-backed/Underwood
Yellow-billed Cacique
White-collared Seedeater
Variable Seedeater
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Forked-tailed Emerald

Tropical Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Couches Kingbird

Ash-throated Flycatcher
Social Flycatcher
Tody Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Sulfer-bellied Flycatcher

Eastern Wood Pewee

Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Greenish Elaenia

Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Yucatan Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

 

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