FLORES & LIST
GUATEMALA
PETEN (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (15-18th December, 2004)
Birding Site Guide
Flores was used as a base to visit Tikal. It is an island in the large Lake Peten Itza reached by a causeway from the town of Santa Elena. A few species could be seen from the causeway and round the edges of the island. The only real species of note was Royal Tern. Normally a coastal species but has been seen inland in Peten before. I saw 19 species during my few days staying here.
Species seen
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
- Laughing Gull Larus atricilla
- Royal Tern Sterna maxima
- Rock Dove Columba livia Introduced
- Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon
- Ringed Kingfisher Ceryle torquata
- Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Author: Charles Hesse
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