Birds of 3/09 Michoacán/Mexico City trip

Birds new to me on the 3/09 Mexico/Michoacán trip

3/20, at the Sierra Chincua mariposa reserve:

• Red warbler
• (Western mountain peewee)
• Mexican chickadee
• Yellow-eyed junco

3/26 Pátzcuaro:

• Glossy ibis
• Say’s phoebe
• (Mexican bushtits – they don’t appear to count as a different species, but they have black caps, which the ones at home don’t)

3/27 Ihuátzio:

• vermillion flycatcher
• ash-throated flycatcher

vermillion flycatcher

3/28 Patzcuaro:

• Crescent-throated warbler

& piney woods above Opopeo:

• Northern beardless tyrannulet
• Slate-throated whitestart

3/28 in the Parque Morelos 45 minutes outside Morelia:

• tufted flycatcher
• acorn woodpecker
• summer tanager
• painted whitestart (aka painted redstart)

3/29 in the pass on the road between Zitácuaro and Toluca (Michoacán/Mexico border)

• summer tanager
• hermit thrush
• magnificent hummingbird
• plumbeous vireo

3/30 road between Tenango and Tenancingo

• rufous-capped brushfinch
• (possible golden-browed warbler, too – was sure I saw the eye stripe, but only for half a second)

3/30 on the slopes of the Volcán de Ajusco

• striped sparrow

3/31  Mexico City

• rufous-backed robin
• orchard oriole
• melodious blackbird
• house wren