Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Cancun, Mexico Trip ~ May 22, 2006

Very early on the 22nd, I once again walked the golf course and found my last two 'lifers', a Yucatan Jay and a female Thicket Tinamou before packing for our early afternoon flight home.
Yucatan Jay at the Moon Palace Golf Club near Cancun, Mexico.
This photo shows the turquoise-blue wings and tail, black head and underparts, and yellowish legs. This bird was photographed along the path to the clubhouse. This life bird was with three others in the brush along the path.


A Coatimundi at the Moon Palace Golf Club near Cancun, Mexico.
I got my first-ever look at one of these as it walked around the course.


Some of the other birds seen during this long weekend were Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Plain Chachalaca, Brown Pelican, Magnificent Frigatebird, Great Egret, Tricolored Heron, White Ibis, Osprey, Common Moorhens with young, White-rumped Sandpiper, Laughing Gull, Royal Tern, White-winged Dove, Ruddy Ground-Dove, Vaux's Swift, the "dubius" race of Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Brown-crested Flycatcher, Great Kiskadee, Social Flycatcher, Tropical Kingbird, Rose-throated Becard, "Ridgeway's" Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Cave Swallow, Clay-colored Thrush (Robin), Red-winged Blackbird, Bronzed Cowbird, and Hooded and Altimira Oriole.

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