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This is a list of the bird species recorded in Mexico. The avifauna of Mexico included a total of 1136 species as of April 2024, according to Bird Checklists of the World . [ 1 ] Of the 1135 species, 113 are rare or accidental , 10 have been introduced by humans, 112 are endemic , and five more breed only in Mexico though their non-breeding ...
The following is a list of bird species endemic to the region of Mexico south to Nicaragua (M indicates a species endemic to Mexico; G, Guatemala). This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
These are followed by a 26-page bibliography, and indexes to English and scientific names. The covers are illustrated with paintings of Mexican birds: a black-throated magpie-jay on the front cover, a short-crested coquette on the spine, and an unspotted saw-whet owl and two plumbeous kites on the rear cover.
B. Baird's junco; Baja pygmy owl; Bald eagle; Band-backed wren; Band-tailed pigeon; Banded wren; Bar-winged oriole; Barred parakeet; Bat falcon; Bearded screech owl
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The German ornithologist Johann Matthäus Bechstein formally described the species using the same name in 1793 in his translation of John Latham's A General Synopsis of Birds. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The common name "vulture" is derived from the Latin word vulturus , which means "tearer" and is a reference to its feeding habits. [ 7 ]
Quetzals (/ k ɛ t ˈ s ɑː l, ˈ k ɛ t s əl /) are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family. They are found in forests, especially in humid highlands, with the five species from the genus Pharomachrus being exclusively Neotropical, while a single species, the eared quetzal, Euptilotis neoxenus, is found in Guatemala, sometimes in Mexico and very locally in the southernmost United ...