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The golden eagle is Mexico's national bird. 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 ...
Resplendent quetzal. The resplendent quetzal ( Pharomachrus mocinno) is a small bird found in Central America and southern Mexico that lives in tropical forests, particularly montane cloud forests. They are part of the family Trogonidae and have two recognized subspecies, P. m. mocinno and P. m. costaricensis.
Pájaro Verde ( English language: Green Bird) is a Mexican folktale collected by Howard True Wheeler from Ayutla, Jalisco. It is related to the cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom and distantly related to the Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche, in that the heroine is forced to perform difficult tasks for a witch.
Lists of birds of Mexico. Birds of the Rio Grande valleys. Birds of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Birds of the Sierra Madre Oriental. Birds of the Sierra Madre del Sur. Birds of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Birds of Mexico.
The bird featured on the Mexican coat of arms is the golden eagle. This bird is known in Spanish as águila real (literally, "royal eagle"). In 1960, the Mexican ornithologist Martín del Campo identified the eagle in the pre-Hispanic codex as a crested caracara or "quebrantahuesos", a species common in Mexico (although the name "eagle" is ...
Mexico, [a] [b] officially the United Mexican States, [c] is a country in the southern portion of North America. It covers 1,972,550 km 2 (761,610 sq mi), [11] making it the world's 13th-largest country by area; with a population of almost 130 million, it is the 10th-most-populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country. [12]
Bird flu 'ruffles feathers' of cattle in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico. Migratory birds can have an outsized impact on the human world as well. In March, it was reported by the United States ...
The Mexican woodnymph ( Eupherusa ridgwayi) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae endemic to western Mexico. It lives in subtropical or tropical moist lowland/foothill forest and plantations, feeding on flower nectar and insects. Mexican woodnymphs are vulnerable, threatened by habitat loss through deforestation .
The official name of the country is the "United Mexican States" ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos ), since it is a federation of thirty-two states. The official name was first used in the Constitution of 1824, and was retained in the constitutions of 1857 and 1917. Informally, "Mexico" is used along with "Mexican Republic" ( República ...
16, see text. Chachalacas are galliform birds from the genus Ortalis. These birds are found in wooded habitats in the far southern United States ( Texas ), [1] [2] Mexico, and Central and South America. They are social, can be very noisy and often remain fairly common even near humans, as their relatively small size makes them less desirable to ...