Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Oaxaca

One of the highlights of our trip was a 5 day stay with our good friend and expert local birder, Eric Martinez, in Teotitlan Del Valle, in Oaxaca State. The birding was truly excellent in this area, and with Eric's knowledge of the local sites, we were able to pick up a decent number of regional endemics and specialties, along with plenty of other great birds.


Oaxaca Sparrow


Lesser Nighthawk, Usual Excuses for poor quality(near darkness, manual focus, Max ISO ,blah blah blah)


Bridled Sparrow


Black-throated Grey Warbler


Rock Wren


Bullocks Oriole


Vermillion Flycatcher


Boucard's Wren


Red Warbler


Chestnut-sided Shrike Vireo


Red-faced Warbler


Violet-green Swallow


Lark Sparrow


White-throated Towhee (looks like a heap of shit, but a very range restricted endemic and my 1000th bird of the year)


Blue-grey Gnatcatcher


Curve-billed Thrasher

1 comment:

oaxaca mexico said...

Nice pics of birds. Mexico is a 18 megadiverse countries in the world, most diverse fauna and flora species in the world. Oaxaca is a constituent state of Mexico.Oaxaca has the biggest bird reserve in Mexico. Birding tourism in Oaxaca is Oaxaca Valley, Cloud Forest, Sierra Sur, Pacific Costal Lowlands there are many Other birds spotted in Oaxaca.