Pueblo  Escondido

Because of the wetland terrain and well
stocked ponds, Pueblo Escondido is
home to a wide variety of water birds.

We have seen several varieties of
herons, egrets and storks, live here
including blue herons, night herons, and
tiger herons - called "barking gawlings"
in Belize becaue they make a sound
like a dog barking  - as well as great
egrets, wood storks and others.

Swamp hens, grebes (seen in the pond
in the picture at the top of this page),
wild ducks, kingfishers,  woodstorks, all
live, breed and or/feed in the wetlands.

A flock of wild muscovy ducks lives at
Birdhaven Pond and some of their
members have inter-mingled with our
domestic duck flock and produced
mixed offspring.

Kingfishers feed on fish and shrimp  
hatchlings in the streams and ponds and
 perch on the branches above the ponds
and streams  and timing their dive into
the water to catch fish.

Tiger
Heron

Green
Heron

Young
Green
Heron

Woodstorks
and Herons

Wild Muscovy ducks mingling
and interbreeding with the
domestic ducks

Kingfishers

Find Yourself at Pueblo Escondido

Updated September 12, 2004

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