ANI, GROOVE -BILLED   MOTMOT, TURQUOISE-BROWED
     
CATBIRD, GREY   ORIOLE, HOODED
    ORIOLE, ORCHARD
CHACHALACA, PLAIN    
    OWL, FERRUGINOUS PGYMY
DOVE, WHITE-WINGED    
    PARAKEET, AZTEC
eGRET, GREAT WHITE    
EGRET, SNOWY   PARROT, WHITE-FRONTED
     
FLYCATCHER, BOAT-BILLED   PARULA, NORTHERN
     
FRIGATEBIRD, MAGNIFICENT   PIGEON, RED-BILLED
    PIGEON, WHITE-CROWNED
HAWK, COMMON BLACK    
HAWK, ROADSIDE   SALTATOR, GREYISH
     
HERON, LITTLE BLUE   SWALLOW, CAVE
HERON, GREAT BLUE    
HERON, GREEN   TANAGER, SUMMER
HERON, TRICOLOR    
    TURKEY, OSCELLATED
IBIS, WHITE    
    VIREO, YUCATAN
JACANA, NORTHERN    
    VULTURE, TURKEY
JAY, BROWN    
JAY, YUCATAN   WARBLER, YELLOW-RUMPED
    WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED
KINGBIRD, COUCH'S    
KINGBIRD, TROPICAL   WOODPECKER, GOLDEN-FRONTED
    WOODPECKER, LADDER-BACKED
KISKADEE, GREAT   WOODPECKER, YUCATAN
     
MOCKINGBIRD, TROPICAL    
     
     
     
The category links on the right will direct you to a photo/ID page that will open in a separate window; you will need to close that page/return here to choose another species.
 

With hundreds of avian species on the Yucatan Peninsula, this is far from a complete list! New species will be added on an ongoing basis (last update 4/09). This information is not complete, nor is it intended to be a substitute for a guidebook; it is merely a quick briefing on species in the area that I have seen and photographed.

 
Identification information comes from the following souces as well as my personal observations:
 
  • A guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America - Steve NG Howell and Sophie Webb, Oxford University Press, reprint 2005
  • Field Guide to the Birds of North America - National Geographic (Fourth Edition)
  • A Field Guide to Mexican Birds - Roger Tory Peterson and Edward L. Chalif, Houghton Mifflin, 1973