Belize Specialities
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 ....Protected
Areas Managed By The Belize Audubon Society -
includes additional information
on:
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Half Moon Caye Natural Monument
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Shipstern Nature Reserve
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Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary
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Guanacaste National Park
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Blue Hole National Park
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Tapir Mountain Nature Reserve
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Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary
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....Another
site on Shipstern
Nature Reserve - managed by
the Belize Audobon Society
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....Birding
in Belize - this commercial site provides information on
birding
sites, as well as a brief checklist, and fgeneral information about birding
in Belize.
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....Crooked
Tree Wildlife Sanctuary - Located 33 miles northwest
of
Belize City and just 2 miles
off the Northern Highway, Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary provides an opportunity
to view some of Belize's magnificent waterbird populations. See also the
Birds
of Ambergris Caye by Elbert Greeg.
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....Slate
Creek Preserve is functioning as an important
buffer for the
adjacent Mountain Pine Ridge
Forest Reserve and forms a wildlife corridor between the Mountain Pine
Ridge Forest to the north and the Tapir Mountain Nature Reserve to the
northeast.
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....Guanacaste
National Park - a fifty acre parcel of tropical
forest
located on the northside
of the Western Highway just to the east of the Roaring Creek Bridge, administered
by the Belize Audubon Society.
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....Five
Blues Lake National Park - Two hundred seventeen
species of
birds have been identified
in the park and all five of Belize's wildcats make their home within the
park's boundaries.
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....Cockscomb
Basin Wildlife Sanctuary - The lush jungle of
the basin
is a birder's paradise,
with over 300 species recorded. Some of the more interesting species include
the scarlet macaw, great curassow, keel-billed toucan and king vulture.
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....Half
Moon Caye Natural Monument - The western half
of the caye
is densely vegetated. The
soils are made rich and fertile by guano from thousands of sea birds nesting
in the area.
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....Birds
of Belize...The Halfmoon Rookery - the island has been
protected since 1928. The
rookeries can be reached by boat from San Pedro by hopping aboard one of
the dive boats heading for the "Blue Hole".
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....Birding
in the CAYO District of Belize - Bird watching is great in
Cayo!
More than 600 bird species live year-round or visit
Belize as part of their migratory pattern. Birds from the north visit Belize
during the winter months, while the summer months are great for spotting
visitors from South America.
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....Trip
Report: Central America (A birding travel report on: Mexico,
Guatemala
and Belize) - 16 March - 12 April 1991, by Michiel de Boer. This is a report
of a birding holiday of four weeks in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. We
didn't book anything in advance (except for the flight) didn't rent a car
and still visited all the good spots we wanted to visit. It was a great
pleasure and a terrific experience, we would recommend to any birdwatcher
or nature-lover. The planning of this trip relied on sources like travel-reports.
By writing this report I hope I can contribute to the planning of trips
of other people.
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....Nine
Days in Belize - Trip Report by Steven Mumford, 1995.
"Depart Miami at 4:26pm,
arrive in Belize City at 4:13pm. A negative 13 minute airplane ride! What
a way to fly!" An excellent trip report detailing both birds spotted and
locations.
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....Trip
report for Belize - November 10-20, 1996 by Roy and Jill Jones.
Belize is a nice country
to get an introduction to birding in Central America as they speak English
and there is some good habitat for birds. The people were nice everywhere
we went.
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....Trip
Report-Northern Belize - January 10-18, 1997. By Kevin
Loughlin.
This was my first birding tour of 1997, and a very successful endeavor
with 200 species in seven full days of birding (plus the time to/from the
airport. I even included a few lifers of my own though I have been leading
tours to Belize since 1993. In fact, one of the Belizean guides I use got
a couple of lifers, and he has been birding Belize all his life! See also
Kevin's trip report from the March
27 Tour.
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....Trip
Report: Belize, November 2000 - by Mary Beth Stowe.
Thought
I'd do an overview of the trip this time rather than a blow-by-blow recount
( if you'd LIKE that, then e-mail me and I'll send you a copy of the journal
! ), thinking this format might be more useful to prospective visitors
to Belize.
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....Trip
Report: Birding and Duding in Yucutan and Belize, July 26 to
August 31, 2003. By Tim
Allwood and Claire Stephenson. There’s no feeling like that of the roar
and pull of the engines of a jet as you travel down the runway, and this
year our destination was the endemism hotspot of the Yucutan peninsula
in Mexico, and Belize. After last year’s epic expedition into darkest Peru
we fancied a slightly more sedate trip with the chance to relax, swim,
meet a few people and generally doss about with a beer or two. This area
has many endemic species and subspecies (a fair few probable splits in
the pipeline) along with many more species endemic to the wider area of
Central America.
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....Belize
Trip Reports - Blake Maybank's great trip report archive
holds
many more trip reports on various parts of Belize.
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