Site Report: Tikal
Restrictions
Tikal Temple
View From Temple IV
Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata)
White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica)
White-whiskered Puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis) - Female
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris)
Central American spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)
Mexican black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra)
Orange-breasted Falcon (Falco deiroleucus)
White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica)
Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus)
Morelet's Crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii)
Brown Jay (Psilorhinus morio)
Lesser Greenlet (Pachysylvia decurtata)
Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus)
Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus lessenii)
Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus)
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa)
Barred Woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes certhia)
White-collared Seedeater (Sporophila torqueola) - Male
Collared Trogon (Trogon collaris) - Male
Couch's Kingbird (Tyrannus couchii)
Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons)
Black-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio aurantius) - Female
Green-backed Sparrow (Arremonops chloronotus)
White-crowned Parrot (Pionus senilis)
Tawny-winged Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla anabatina)
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Restrictions
Tikal Temple
View From Temple IV
Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis ocellata)
White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica)
White-whiskered Puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis) - Female
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris)
Central American spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)
Mexican black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra)
Orange-breasted Falcon (Falco deiroleucus)
White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica)
Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus)
Morelet's Crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii)
Brown Jay (Psilorhinus morio)
Lesser Greenlet (Pachysylvia decurtata)
Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus)
Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus lessenii)
Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus)
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa)
Barred Woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes certhia)
White-collared Seedeater (Sporophila torqueola) - Male
Collared Trogon (Trogon collaris) - Male
Couch's Kingbird (Tyrannus couchii)
Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons)
Black-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio aurantius) - Female
Green-backed Sparrow (Arremonops chloronotus)
White-crowned Parrot (Pionus senilis)
Tawny-winged Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla anabatina)
Tikal is national park protecting extensive Mayan ruins as well as the surrounding forest.
Visits
- 2009-01-28: Tikal contains some of the better Mayan ruins that I have visited. We camped for a night here and spent a full day wandering around the ruins and surrounding forest. The highlight for me was randomly finding an Orange-breasted Falcon on Temple IV after not seeing the same bird the previous day at a Mountain Pine Ridge nesting site (due to fog). The lowlight was getting scammed by Cesar Carrera and San Juan Travel (after reading the recommendation to use them in the Lonely Planet guidebook... one of many lowlights provided by the Lonely Planet)
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (42 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(42 records)
Class: Birds
(37 records)
- Order: Gabuliformes
(1 record)
- Family: Puffbirds
- White-whiskered Puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (5 records)
- Family: Swifts
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift (Panyptila cayennensis)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots
(1 record)
- Family: Motmots
- Lessen's Motmot (Momotus lessonii)
- Order: Parrots
(2 records)
- Family: New World Parrots
- White-crowned Parrot (Pionus senilis)
- Mealy Parrot (Amazona farinosa)
- Order: Pelicans
(3 records)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Laughing Falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)
- Orange-breasted Falcon (Falco deiroleucus)
- Family: Herons
- Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
- Order: Perching Birds
(20 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Brown Jay (Cyanocorax morio)
- Family: New World Warblers
- Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens)
- Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)
- Kentucky Warbler (Geothlypis formosa)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Green-backed Sparrow (Arremonops chloronotus)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Northern Plain-Xenops (Xenops mexicanus)
- Tawny-winged Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla anabatina)
- Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa)
- Ivory-billed Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus flavigaster)
- Northern Barred-Woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae)
- Family: Swallows
- Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Black-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio aurantius)
- Morelet's Seedeater (Sporophila morelleti)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet (Camptostoma imberbe)
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris)
- Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus)
- Couch's Kingbird (Tyrannus couchii)
- Order: Trogons
(1 record)
- Family: Trogons
- Collared Trogon (Trogon collaris)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(2 records)
- Family: Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows
- Great Curassow (Crax rubra)
- Family: Grouse, Turkeys, and Allies
- Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides (2 records)
Class: Mammals
(3 records)
- Order: Carnivorans
(1 record)
- Family: Procyonidae
- White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica)
- Order: Primates (2 records)
Class: Reptiles
(2 records)
- Order: Alligators and Crocodiles
(1 record)
- Family: Crocodiles
- Morelet's Crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii)
- Order: Turtles
(1 record)
- Family: Fresh Water Turtle
- Mesoamerican Slider (Trachemys scryta)