Site Report: Lancetilla Botanical Gardens
Lancetilla Gardens
Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus)
Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii)
Montezuma Oropendola (Gymnostinops montezuma)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
White-collared Seedeater (Sporophila torqueola moreletti) - Male
Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) - Female
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanica)
Thick-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila funerea)
Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans)
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Lancetilla Gardens
Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus)
Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii)
Montezuma Oropendola (Gymnostinops montezuma)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
White-collared Seedeater (Sporophila torqueola moreletti) - Male
Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) - Female
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanica)
Thick-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila funerea)
Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans)
This garden, on the outskirts of Tela is one of the largest tropical gardens in the world.
Visits
- 2009-02-08: We took an early morning taxi ride to the Lancetilla Botanical Gardens. The weather was not cooperating, and we had some rain on the walk into the gardens. We took another taxi back to Tela around noon.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (15 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(15 records)
Class: Birds
(15 records)
- Order: Perching Birds
(13 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Chestnut-headed Oropendola (Psarocolius wagleri)
- Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
- Black-cowled Oriole (Icterus prosthemelas)
- Family: New World Warblers
- Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii)
- Olive-backed Euphonia (Euphonia gouldi)
- Morelet's Seedeater (Sporophila morelleti)
- Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea)
- Family: Vireos
- White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus)
- Family: Wrens
- Spot-breasted Wren (Pheugopedius maculipectus)
- White-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta)
- Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(2 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
- Family: Toucans
- Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus)