Mexico birds

Bird photographs from Mexico

Original photographs taken in Mexico of a range of bird species.

Nikon D300 with 600mm F/5.6 manual focus lens.

Bird species list from Mexico

  • American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
  • American white ibis (Eudocimus albus)
  • American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)
  • Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
  • Black skimmer (Rynchops niger)
  • Black vulture (Coragyps atratus)
  • Black-bellied plover or grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
  • Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
  • Boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)
  • Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
  • Caribbean or American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
  • Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
  • Common black hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus)
  • Common ground dove (Columbina passerina)
  • Double crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
  • Golden-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons)
  • Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
  • Great white egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret
  • Great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
  • Green heron (Butorides virescens)
  • Green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)
  • Groove-billed ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris)
  • Hooded oriole (Icterus cucullatus)
  • Isla Holbox, Rio Lagartos, Puerto Morelos
  • Ladder-backed woodpecker (Dryobates scalaris)
  • Laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
  • Least sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
  • Lineated woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus)
  • Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea)
  • Long billed curlew (Numenius americanus)
  • Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)
  • Mangrove swallow (Tachycineta albilinea)
  • Marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa)
  • Neotropic cormorant or olivaceous cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)
  • Northern parula (Setophaga americana)
  • Osprey or more specifically the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk
  • Reddish egret (Egretta rufescens)
  • Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
  • Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
  • Royal tern (Thalasseus maximus)
  • Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
  • Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
  • Semi palmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
  • Short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
  • Snowy egret (Egretta thula)
  • Sora rail (Porzana carolina)
  • Tennessee warbler (Oreothlypis peregrina)
  • Tricoloured heron (Egretta tricolor)
  • Tropical kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus)
  • Tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus)
  • Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
  • Western sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
  • Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
  • Wood stork (Mycteria americana)
  • Yellow or Mangrove warbler (Setophaga petechia, formerly Dendroica petechia)
  • Yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
  • Yucatan flycatcher (Myiarchus yucatanensis)