Durango Highway & San Blas, Mexico

22 February - 2 March 2010


Copala & the Sierra Madre | In and Around San Blas | Birds and Crocs

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Birds and Crocs


Ok, so these aren't the greatest bird photos...but will give you an idea of what we were looking at.


Russet-crowned motmot

Russet-crowned motmot

Ants!  They were in nice thick columns
but this photo was taken after a truck
ran through them :-(

Gila woodpecker

Thick-billed kingbird

Streak-backed oriole

Streak-backed oriole

Military macaw

Lesser nighthawk (day roost at the
Garza Canela hotel in San Blas)

American crocodile

Anhinga

Bare-throated tiger-heron

Bare-throated tiger-heron, different light

Spiny-tailed iguana

A boat-billed heron (I know, hard
to see)

Snail kite - not a great shot but you
can see the hook on the bill that he
uses to get the snails

Croc in the water!

Northern potoo

Elegant trogon

Spotted wrens - west mexican
endemic - too bad not a better shot

Crocs

and more crocs!

Spiny-tailed iguana

Another look at the lesser nighthawk

Big guy

Pale-billed woodpeckers


Masked tityra

Ooh, another iguana!

and another!

Elegant trogon

Pale-billed woodpecker, again

Copala & the Sierra Madre | In and Around San Blas | Birds and Crocs

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