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Posted by Stephen Paez on 09:17:32 11/01/06
Just came back fro Nicaragua and had the best time birding. I used to live there and it was great to see the old birds (and some of the Miami regulars there). The country is safe and the people are friendly. I know this site is for S. Florida but I don't know where else to post these birds. Need to get it out of my system I guess. The following birds I saw with an excellent guide in the Montibelli Private Reserve (deciduous tropical forest), just outside Managua:
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Broad-Winged Hawk (guide was excited cause first for reserve)
White-Tipped Dove
Orange-Chinned Parakeet
Squirrel Cuckoo
Vaux's Swift
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Blue-Throated Goldentail
Little Hermit
Black-Headed Trogon
Elegant Trogon
Turquoise--Browed Motmot
Hoffmann's Woodpecker
Streak-Headed Woodcreeper
Barred Antshrike
Dusky Antbird
Yellow-Olive Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Dusky-Capped Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Masked Tityra
Rose-Throated Becard
Long-Tailed Manakin
Yellow-Throated Vireo
Lesser Greenlet
White-Throated Magpie-Jay
Rufous-Naped Wren
Plain Wren
Banded Wren
Clay-Colored Robin
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-Sided Warbler
Rufous-Capped Warbler
Canada Warbler
Gray-Headed Tanager
Red-Crowned Ant-Tanager
Summer Tanager
Black-Headed Saltator
Buff-Thraoted Saltator
Yellow-Billed Cacique
Northern Oriole
Montezuma Oropendola
Seen also, but not in the reserve (driving around, fields, gardens)
Brown Pelican
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Crested Caracara
Rock Dove
Red-Billed Pigeon
White-Winged Dove
Mourning Dive
Inca Dove
Ruddy-Ground Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Orange-Fronted Parakeet
White-Fronted Parrot
Groove-Billed Ani
Blue-Crowned Motmot
Social Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
Tennessee Warbler
Blue-Gray Tanager
Blue-Black Grassquit
Melodious Blackbird
Great-Tailed Grackle
Spot-Breasted Oriole
House Sparrow
Stripe-Headed Sparrow
Pacific Parakeet
Streak-Backed Oriole
All in all, a great time was had :)
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