Mexican Trip List

[blindpig]

We visited the following locations between 8/18/05 and 8/25/05: Posada Barancas in the Sierra Madre 6800', El Fuerte Sinaloa, Topolabamba Sinaloa and Alamos Sonora.
Brown Pelican
Magnificant Frigatebird Double-crested Comorant
Neotropical Cormorant
Bare-throated Tiger Heron
American Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolor Heron
Great Blue Heron
White-faced Ibis
Mexican Mallard
Black Bellied Tree Duck
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Gray Hawk
Zone-Tailed Hawk
Roadside Hawk
Black-collared Hawk
Osprey
American Kestrel
Crested Caracara
Elegant Quail
West Mexican Chachalaca
Common Moorhen
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Bonaparte's Gull
Western Gull
Caspian Tern
Sandwich Tern???
Northern Janaca
Rock Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Band-tailed Pigeon
Inca Dove
Common Ground Dove
Ruddy Ground Dove
Green Parakeet
Groove-billed Ani
Lesser Roadrunner
Common Nighthawk
Paraque
Elegant Trogon
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hummingbird
White-eared Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Gila Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Arizona Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Vermillion Flycatcher
Thick-billed kingbird
Tropical Kingbird
Cassin's Kingbird
Great Kiskadee
Russet-crowned Motmot
Stellar's Jay
Magpie Jay
Sinaloan Crow
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Mangrove Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Painted Redstart
Tropical Parula
Northern Cardinal
Striped-back Tanager
Varied Bunting
Painted Bunting
Spotted Towee
Yellow-eyed Junco
Black-throated Sparrow
Great-tailed Grackle
Hooded Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
House Sparrow

Looks like a lot but a better birder should be able to double this count with a little work.

[semillama]

1. how many were life birds? n/t

[blindpig]

3. Lifers:

Bonaparte's Gull
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hummingbird
White-eared Hummingbird
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Russet-crowned Motmot
Striped-back Tanager
Tropical Parula

I've worked the Alamos area before and been to southern Arizona 4-5 times in the last 10 years. Really not that good a birder; spend half my time with eyes to the ground looking for herps.

[XemaSab]

2. The following would be liferz:

Magnificant Frigatebird
Bare-throated Tiger Heron
Roadside Hawk
Black-collared Hawk
Elegant Quail
West Mexican Chachalaca
Sandwich Tern???
Northern Janaca
Green Parakeet
Lesser Roadrunner
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Russet-crowned Motmot
Magpie Jay
Sinaloan Crow
Mangrove Swallow
Tropical Parula
Striped-back Tanager

Sounds like a good haul!

Mmmmmmm....liferz.....