Site Report: Lancetilla Botanical Gardens, Honduras

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
- Black-cowled Oriole (Icterus prosthemelas)
- Chestnut-headed Oropendola (Psarocolius wagleri)
- Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
- Family: New World Warblers
- Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Morelet's Seedeater (Sporophila morelleti)
- Olive-backed Euphonia (Euphonia gouldi)
- Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii)
- Thick-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila funerea)
- Family: Vireos
- White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus)
- Family: Wrens
- Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus)
- Spot-breasted Wren (Pheugopedius maculipectus)
- White-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(2 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
- Family: Toucans
- Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus)