PARQUE PASEOS DE LOS LAGOS & LIST
MEXICO
VERACRUZ (Jalapa)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (20th September, 2004)
Birding Site Guide
This nice little park is near the centre of town. From the plaza, go down the steps and it is about 5 minutes’ walk. It has a couple of lakes with a few waterbirds plus lots of flowering trees with hummingbirds. 17 species including 12 lifers.
Species Notes
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Rock Dove Columba livia Introduced
- Azure-crowned Hummingbird Agyrtria cyanocephala
- Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon
- ? Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
- ? Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus Introduced
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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