eBird Centroamérica Checklist S12676650

Observations

1. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

   Number observed:  3000

   Details

   Abundant. Huge flocks forming "clouds", quite noisy.

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2. Muscovy Duck

   Number observed:  2

   Details

   Two females.

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3. Blue-winged Teal

   Number observed:  2000

   Details

   Probably more in three different ponds. If you enlarge the photo, notice the other ducks species present too (specially Northern Pintails).

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4. Northern Shoveler

   Number observed:  1

   Details

   A female.

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5. American Wigeon

   Number observed:  10

   Details

   Several individuals seeing both flying and resting with Blue-winged Teals. Probably more.

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6. Northern Pintail

   Number observed:  40

   Details

   Probably more. Both sexes with other ducks. Only in these photos you can see at least nine individuals in the first one and ten in the second one. Try seeing the photo attached under "Blue-winged Teal" in this same checklist (many pintails flying too).

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7. Lesser Scaup

   Number observed:  10

   Details

   Probably more. Only two in this photo.

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8. Masked Duck

   Number observed:  2

   Details

   We saw one shy individual (female-plumaged) very early close to cover. Then, in the way out we saw what we think was the same individual, in the same spot, now accompanied by a huge flock of other ducks. The duck flew, showing the white patch in the secondaries (photo). Then we saw a dead bird in the road (photo).

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9. Ruddy Ground Dove

   Number observed:  6

10. White-tipped Dove

    Number observed:  1

11. Smooth-billed Ani

    Number observed:  10

12. Common Gallinule

    Number observed:  5

13. American Coot (Red-shielded)

    Number observed:  40

    Details

    Probably more. In the first shot you can see eight, among with a shoveler and a teal (there were many more flocks of coots). In the second photo, more than 25 birds are recognizable among the whistling-ducks and teals.

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14. Purple Gallinule

    Number observed:  15

15. White-throated Crake

    Number observed:  2

16. Gray-breasted Crake

    Number observed:  1

17. Black-necked Stilt

    Number observed:  15

    Details

    Two separated groups.

18. Southern Lapwing

    Number observed:  8

19. Wattled Jacana

    Number observed:  30

20. Spotted Sandpiper

    Number observed:  2

21. Least Sandpiper

    Number observed:  30

    Details

    Scattered in the last pond we visited.

22. Caspian Tern

    Number observed:  2

23. Wood Stork

    Number observed:  200

    Details

    Amazing numbers, almost all of them in the last pond we visited (this photo shows only half of the pond).

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24. Magnificent Frigatebird

    Number observed:  4

25. Anhinga

    Number observed:  1

26. Neotropic Cormorant

    Number observed:  4

27. White Ibis

    Number observed:  2

28. Glossy Ibis

    Number observed:  10

    Details

    Principally close to the entrance.

29. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

    Number observed:  1

30. Black-crowned Night Heron

    Number observed:  1

31. Little Blue Heron

    Number observed:  20

32. Tricolored Heron

    Number observed:  2

33. Snowy Egret

    Number observed:  1

34. Striated Heron

    Number observed:  2

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35. Green Heron

    Number observed:  2

36. Western Cattle-Egret

    Number observed:  10

37. Great Egret

    Number observed:  10

38. Great Blue Heron

    Number observed:  2

39. Cocoi Heron

    Number observed:  38

    Details

    Abundant. Notice, for example, the number of herons in the next photo.

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40. Black Vulture

    Number observed:  150

    Details

    All over the place.

41. Turkey Vulture

    Number observed:  50

42. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

    Number observed:  10

43. Osprey

    Number observed:  2

44. Long-winged Harrier

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Two different individuals. The first early in the morning, mostly dark (black) with conspicuous facial pattern, pale primaries panel, white band rump and many white tail bands (photo). The second individual was similar, except that was more brownish, with creamy underparts, streaked below, specially in the chest that looked almost solid brown.

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45. Savanna Hawk

    Number observed:  1

46. Great Black Hawk

    Number observed:  1

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47. Zone-tailed Hawk

    Number observed:  1

48. Belted Kingfisher

    Number observed:  1

49. Crested Caracara (Northern)

    Number observed:  5

50. Yellow-headed Caracara

    Number observed:  1

51. Peregrine Falcon

    Number observed:  1

52. Pale-breasted Spinetail

    Number observed:  1

53. Common Tody-Flycatcher

    Number observed:  1

54. Yellow-bellied Elaenia

    Number observed:  2

55. Pied Water-Tyrant

    Number observed:  2

56. Rusty-margined Flycatcher

    Number observed:  2

57. Social Flycatcher

    Number observed:  6

58. Tropical Kingbird

    Number observed:  10

59. Fork-tailed Flycatcher

    Number observed:  4

60. Golden-fronted Greenlet

    Number observed:  2

61. Gray-breasted Martin

    Number observed:  5

62. Southern Rough-winged Swallow

    Number observed:  1

63. Barn Swallow

    Number observed:  10

64. Isthmian Wren

    Number observed:  1

65. Tropical Mockingbird

    Number observed:  1

    Exotic: Naturalized

66. Clay-colored Thrush

    Number observed:  1

67. Yellow-crowned Euphonia

    Number observed:  2

68. Eastern Meadowlark

    Number observed:  2

69. Great-tailed Grackle

    Number observed:  50

70. Yellow Warbler (Northern)

    Number observed:  1

71. Blue-black Grassquit

    Number observed:  1

72. Variable Seedeater

    Number observed:  1