Planetscott - Site Report: Teotitlan del Valle

2024-03-27: In order to get Barbara on board for the trip, I promised a trip to the weaving town. Here is a town where everyone is weaving rugs. I guess that busloads of tourists must show up as well, but they don't get there before lunch. We drove a short way up the road to visit a small reservoir.

Kingdom: Animals (27 records)

Phylum: Chordates (27 records)

Class: Birds (26 records)

Order: Anseriformes (1 record)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)

Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- American Coot (Fulica americana)

Order: Doves and Pigeons (1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)

Order: Pelicans (11 records)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus)
- Family: Grebes
- Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
- Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
- Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
- Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)

Order: Perching Birds (9 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)
- Family: Mockingbirds, Thrashers, and Allies
- Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Say's Phoebe (Sayornis saya)
- Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)
- Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)
- Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)

Order: Shorebirds and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Plovers
- Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)

Order: Vultures (1 record)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)

Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides (1 record)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Gray-breasted Woodpecker (Melanerpes hypopolius)

Class: Reptiles (1 record)

Order: Lizards and Snakes (1 record)
- Family: North American Spiny Lizards
- Eastern Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus spinosus)