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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 .
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
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.
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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 ...
The bird was first described by English naturalist and illustrator William Swainson who designated it Macrocercus pachyrhynchus in Philosophical Magazine, new ser., 1, no. 6, p. 439 (1827). Swainson evidently thought that because of its size and heavy beak, that it was a macaw (at that time, any parrot of the genus Sittace , or Macrocercus ).