Site Report: Huatusco - Rancho el Mirador

Gray Hawk (Buteo plagiatus)

Montezuma Oropendola (Gymnostinops montezuma) In Flight

Olivaceous Woodcreeper (Sittasomus griseicapillus)

Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula)

White-bellied Emerald (Amazilia candida)

Gray Hawk (Buteo plagiatus)

Lesson's Motmot (Momotus lessoni)

I found this site in through ProNatura in Cardel. It is a coffee plantation in rolling hills. The coffee here is shade grown which is beneficial to the cloud forest wildlife as it mimics natural cloud forest conditions. To visit the Ranch, you must contact the owners beforehand. Phone number in 2007 was 01-273-734-1577.

Visits

2007-10-15: Walked around the ranch with one of the ranch hands.

Species Seen

Kingdom: Animals (8 records)

Phylum: Chordates (8 records)

Class: Birds (8 records)

Order: Doves and Pigeons (1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Common Ground-Dove (Columbina passerina)

Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Gray Hawk (Buteo plagiatus)

Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (1 record)
- Family: Hummingbirds
- White-bellied Emerald (Chlorestes candida)

Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (1 record)
- Family: Motmots
- Lessen's Motmot (Momotus lessonii)

Order: Perching Birds (3 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper (Sittasomus griseicapillus)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Common Chlorospingus (Chlorospingus flavopectus)

Order: Turkey-like birds (1 record)
- Family: Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows
- Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula)

Lifelists

Trips

Mexico, Veracruz