---birds at mmrf---
Birds are excedllent indicators of the health of an eco-system; their presence and identification is a way to quantify the sustainability of various agricultural approaches. Towards this end, MMRF works closely with PG Bird M
an; Wilfred Mutrie.
Wilfred has a wealth of information about birds so he is a frequent guest speaker for groups here at MMRF. Usually he does an evening presentation with Q&A, then before dawn students gather in the kitchen for a quick cup of coffee before Wilfred begins guiding them on a bird sighting trek throughout the farm and riverine areas. For more serious birders he can be hired as a personal guide throughout southern B
elize. We are working with Wilfred and the Tropical Avain Adventure Club (TAAC) on a project that will train more local people to become birding guides.
For the casual, sleepy-head bird enthusiast, plenty of birds can be seen out the dorm windows before your head ever leaves the pillow. This is because complexity of our agro-ecological system encourages many birds to call it home.
By the way, that is Wilfred above, and a woodpecker picture he took.
Following is a list of the birds that have so far been identified at MMRF. We will update this list as time and information allows.
Grooved-billed Ani
Smooth-billed Ani
Barred Ant Shrike
Great Ant Shrike
Red-throated Ant Tanager
Bright Rumped Attila
Brewer's Blackbird
Melodious Blackbird
Indigo Bunting
Painted bunting
Yellow-billed Cacique
Black Catbird
Grey Catbird
Plain Chachalaca
American Coot
Neotropic Cormorant
Bronzed Cowbird
Giant Cowbird
Great Currasow
Dickasil
Grey-chested Dove
Ground dove
Greenish Elania
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Yellow-bellied Elania
White-bellied Emerald
Yellow throated Euphonia
Acadian Flycatcher
Brown Crested Flycatcher
Common Tody Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Great-Crested Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Royal Flycatcher
Social Flycatcher
Sulfur Billed Flycatcher
Yellow billed Flycatcher
Blue Throated Goldentail
Common Grackle
Great-Tailed Grackle
Blue-Black Grassquit
Yellow-Faced Grassquit
Blue Grosbeak
Blue-Black Grosbeak
Rose breasted Grosbeak
Ring-billed Gull
Broad-winged Hawk
Grey Hawk
Ornate Hawk Eagle
Stripe Throated Hermit
Little Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Green Honeycreeper
Magnificent Hummingbird
Rufous Tailed Hummingbird
White Neck Jacobin
Brown Jay
Eastern Kingbird
Tropical Kingbird
Amazon Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Ringed Kingfisher
Great Kiskadee
Limpkin
Green-Breasted Mango
Purple Martin
Common Moorhen
Montezuma Orependula
Baltimore Oriole
Black-cowled Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Yellow-tailed Oriole
Ovenbird
Mottled Owl
Common Parauque
Olive Throated Parrakeet
White Growned Parrot
Red Lored Parrot
White Fronted Parrot
Northern Parula
Tropical Peewee
Pale-vented Pigeon
Short-billed Pigeon¸
Yucatan poorwill
Whip poorwill
Red Start American Robin
Clay-coloured Robin
Black Headed Saltator
Greyish Saltator
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Variable Seedeater
White-collard Seedeater
Orange billed Sparrow
Tree Swallow
Black Swift
Vaux's Swift
Crimson-collard Tanager
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Yellow-winged Tanager
Grey-cheeked Thrush
Little Tinamou
Bare Throated Tiger-Heron
Masked Titaya
Keel-Billed Toucan
Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
Violaceous Trogon
Collared Trogon
Slaty Tailed Trogon
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Solitary Vireo
Black Vulture
King Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Black and White Warbler
Chested-sided Warbler
Magnotia Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow throated Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northen Waterthrush
Ruddy Woodcreeper
Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Strong Billed Woodcreeper
Tawny Woodcreeper
Acorn Woodpecker
Black Cheeked Woodpecker
Golden Olive Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Lineated Woodpecker
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Grey-Necked Woodrail
Sedge Wren
Spot Breasted Wren
Winter Wren
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RESEARCH FARM
San Pedro Columbia
P.O. Box 153
Punta Gorda
Belize, C.A.
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