Belize
Vacation 2009
March 9-18, 2009

Black Howler Monkey (Lamanai)

Central American Spider Monkey (Chan Chich) [more
monkey pix]

Black-cheeked Woodpecker pair (Chan Chich)

Black-headed Saltator (Chan Chich)

Female Black-headed Trogon (Lamanai)

Channel-billed Toucan (Chan Chich)

Elvis, the Crested Guan (Chan Chich) [more
guan photos]

Deppe's Squirrel (Chan Chich)

Peanut head bug (Fulgora laternaria, Chan Chich)

Bullhorn Acacia (note holes for commensal ants, Chan Chich)

This insect seems to be tolerated by the ants

Hooded Warbler (Chan Chich)

Ivory-billed Woodcreeper (Chan Chich)

Leaf-cutter ants (Chan Chich) [here is a movie on YouTube]

Least Flycatcher (Chan Chich)

Limestone road through the forest at Chan Chich

Forest trail at Chan Chich

Birding along the Little Chan Chich Creek

Lizard (Chan Chich)

Lovely Cotinga (bird of the trip, Chan Chich)

Maidenhair fern growning on limestone (Chan Chich)

Mahogany tree with Ornate Hawk-Eagle nest (Escarpment, Chan Chich)


Ornate Hawk-Eagle on nest in Mahogany tree (Escarpment, Chan Chich)

Male Olive-backed Euphonia (Chan Chich)

Pale-billed Woodpecker (Chan Chich)

Provision fruit tree flower (Laguna Seca)

Female Red-legged Honeycreeper (Chan Chich)

Red-billed Pigeon (Chan Chich)

Male Red-capped Manakin (Chan Chich)

White-collared Manakin (Chan Chich)

Red-lored Parrot eating fruit (Lamanai) [more
Red-lored Parrot photos]


Immature Slaty-tailed Trogon (Lamanai)

Squirrel Cuckoo puffed up on a cool morning (Chan Chich)

Strangler Fig (Chan Chich)

Tody Motmot (second-place Bird of the Trip, Chan Chich)

Female White-whiskered Puffbird (Chan Chich)

Male White-whiskered Puffbird (Chan Chich)

A different point of view

Yellow-winged Tanager (Chan Chich)
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