Laguna Manialtepec Tour 2009 with Michael Malone of Hidden Voyages Ecotours Page 1   Page 2   Page 3 to the west Cacalotepec, Oaxaca Santiago Jamiltepec Pinotepa Nacional to the northeast Oaxaca, Oaxaca to the east Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca Huatulco, Oaxaca Pochutla, Oaxaca Puerto Angel, Oaxaca   Main Index Birds of Oaxaca Aerial Photos Birds of Laguna Manialtepec Birds of Huatulco Corredor Ecoturistico Ochovenado M. Malone's List of Birds Fish of the Oaxacan Coast highway 200 Regional Map About • Home • Search

In March 2009, we went on a tour of the Manialtepec lagoon with Michael Malone, Canadian ornithologist and tour guide. Michael is in Oaxaca during the winter months giving nature and culture tours. From the spring through the fall he operates Pelee Wings Nature Store in Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada. Here is a video clip of part of the boat ride through the Laguna de Manialtepec. Here are some aerial photos of Laguna Manialtepec. On this tour we encountered the following wildlife: Brown Pelican Neotropic Cormorant American Anhinga Magnificent Frigatebird Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Boat-billed Heron White Ibis White-faced Ibis Wood Stork Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Muscovy Duck Blue-winged Teal Osprey Common Black-Hawk Common Moorhen American Coot Black-necked Stilt Northern Jacana Spotted Sandpiper Laughing Gull Royal Tern White-winged Dove Inca Dove (heard) Orange-fronted Parakeet White-fronted Parrot Squirrel Cuckoo Groove-billed Ani Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (heard) Lesser Nighthawk Citreoline Trogon Ringed Kingfisher Belted Kingfisher Green Kingfisher Golden-cheeked Woodpecker Great Kiskadee (yellow) Social Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird White-throated Magpie-Jay Gray-breasted Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Rufous-backed Robin Great-tailed Grackle Yellow-winged Cacique Mangrove Crab Chatia water snake Green Iguana Rock Iguana For a complete list of birds you might find on a lagoon tour, see M. Malone's List of Birds.

Michael Malone gives a pre-tour briefing at Laguna Manialtepec. La Flor del Pacifico restaurant in the village of Las Negras on the coast highway #200 on the shore of Laguna Manialtepec This is where the eco-tour started in the fishing village of Las Negras

The lagoon is calm in the early morning.

Great Blue Heron, a northern migrant

Great Blue Heron

Red Mangrove trees showing prop roots and aerial roots

Michael Malone with binoculars at the ready

Termites

Black Vulture with guano-covered legs

Black-crowned Night Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron close-up

Bare-throated Tiger Herons, courtship behavior

Great Kiskadee

domesticated Muscovy Duck

domesticated Muscovy Duck

Wood Stork in flight, resident tropical bird

Osprey, a northern migrant wintering on the lagoon

Wood Stork family

Green Iguana

immature Brown Pelican

Magnificent Frigatebird, immature male

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