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by Elliotte Rusty Harold.
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I’m putting up some quick placeholders here. Time permitting I’ll fill them in with more details and photographs later, but there are so many birds it’s easy to get way behind. Numbers may not add up until I edit this more carefully.
Around 10:30 we tore ourselves away from the raptor migration on top of the tower, descended to the courtyard, and walked down the entrance road. Almost immediately we found a small flock of antbirds and others including Fasciated Antshrike and Red-capped Manakin. 13 more life birds total:
Black Hawk-Eagle
Slaty-tailed Trogon
White-whiskered Puffbird
Plain Xenops
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Fasciated Antshrike
Western Slaty-Antshrike
Checker-throated Antwren
White-flanked Antwren
Dot-winged Antwren
Southern Bentbill
Blue-crowned Manakin
White-breasted Wood-Wren
There are whole families of birds here I’ve never seen before including Manakins, Antbirds, Toucans, and Puffbirds. It helps greatly to have a guide when you can’t even place a bird to family at first glance. Plus the guides are much better at locating the birds.
Total list I saw (not including several birds I missed) was:
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Black Hawk-Eagle
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Broad-billed Motmot
White-whiskered Puffbird
Keel-billed Toucan
Plain Xenops
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Fasciated Antshrike
Western Slaty-Antshrike
Checker-throated Antwren
White-flanked Antwren
Dot-winged Antwren
Southern Bentbill
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Blue-crowned Manakin
Red-capped Manakin
White-breasted Wood-Wren
Black-and-white Warbler
Canada Warbler
White-shouldered Tanager
Scarlet-rumped Cacique
Around 12:00 the van picked us up, still only half way down the road, and we returned to the tower for a hot lunch.
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