Pueblo  Escondido

The Birds of Pueblo Escondido

Belize and Pueblo Escondido lie on the migration path of many
 birds on the way to or from the southern hemisphere. These
birds join the permanent residents of Pueblo Escondido to give
any bird-watcher the opportunity to observe an  amazing  
variety of  birds.  In one mid-morning walk through the trails at
Pueblo Escondido in March 2003, some friends from the
Belize Audobon Society counted 68 different varieties of
birds. We have been able to take good photos of only a few of
these.

The wetland terrain and the well stocked ponds attract water
birds in large numbers and many varieties - so many that we
have given them their own page. Please click on the Water
Birds link to see some of Pueblo Escondido's herons, egrets
and ducks.

The Oriole in the picture above is one of several varieties that
visit us every year.   Cardinals, tanagers, flycatchers and
others also visit us every year.

Toucans and toucanettes like to visit in the early mornings.

Parrots and parakeets live and breed in old trees.  A group of
hundreds of  parrots have been know to descend on the corn
field and devour an acre  in the course of a late afternoon.

Pueblo Escondido is home to various kinds of hawks and
vultures. Snail kites feed around the ponds while the chicken
hawks come to the poultry yard almost daily to stalk the
chicken

The piam-piam is the "noisy neighbor" of Pueblo Escondido:
you hear a crowd of them squawking across the way any time
of day.

We have seen and heard three different varieties of
woodpeckers and can be heard feeding almost every
afternoon.  Some of them nest in the old sapodilla trees.

Cardinal in
the front yard

Toucan and Toucanette

Hawk

Piam-piam

Woodpeckers

Trogon

Egret against the
daylight moon which
we have adopted as
our logo

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Updated September 12, 2004

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