Birding in the Pacific Slope


Xetulul Park
Photo by Maynor Ovando

Last weekend I visited Guatemalan Pacific Coast. This is always a good chance for birding even if you don’t plan to visit Private Nature Reserves or National Parks.

I went to a theme park named Xetulul and the trip took 3 hours from Guatemala City, so I decided to account only the species that I could observe on the road or inside the park.

This is my bird list:
Great-tailed Grackle
Gray Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Crested Caracara
White-throated Magpie-jay
Chestnut-collared Swift
White-collared Swift
Melodious Blackbird
Altamira Oriole
Pacific Parakeet
Cinnamon Hummingbird
House Wren
Tropical Kingbird
Social Flycatcher
Cattle Egret
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Lineated Woodpecker
Clay-colored Robin
House Sparrow

Crested Caracara


Golden-fronted Woodpecker


Clay-colored Robin
Photo by Benedicto Grijalva

Posted by Maynor Ovando

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