Cherie’s Bird of the Month: Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus, X-kau (Maya) When I escaped to my parents’ winter home in Florida during college breaks, I enjoyed the whistles, clacks and shrieks of grackles in our backyard….
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Quiscalus mexicanus, X-kau (Maya) When I escaped to my parents’ winter home in Florida during college breaks, I enjoyed the whistles, clacks and shrieks of grackles in our backyard….
Continue readingPitangus sulphuratus, X takay (Maya) As I rest on a cool park bench at La Ermita, a sunny yellow-chested bird alights in my shade-producing tree. With that zebra-like striped head…
Continue readingMelanerpes aurifrons, Ch’ejum, Ch’ajum, Ch’ujum (Maya) Merida tourist: “I saw a woodpecker with red on its head. Was it a Red-headed Woodpecker?” Cherie Pittillo, nature appreciator: “Uh, no. That…
Continue readingTurdus grayi, Xkook (Maya) Sleepy friends ask me which bird thrusts an early morning melody upon them in the spring and summer. Merida has a variety of songsters and noisemakers….
Continue readingColumba livia Just like tourists and residents gather to enjoy Merida’s main square, the Rock Pigeons also flock to this city park. Visitors and locals may feed rice or snack…
Continue readingColumba livia Walk up the steps of Merida’s main square (zocalo, plaza grande), built on a former Maya terrace, and in the center is a raised platform within a concrete…
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