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Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary - Belize
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Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary is a
series of shallow lagoons, creeks and rivers, and includes surrounding
savannahs and thickets. As the dry season progresses, the large
lagoons at Crooked Tree dry up, concentrating fish and
attracting huge numbers of waterbirds. This is a spectacle of
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Jabiru and Neotropic
Cormorants on 13 March 2013. |
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American White
Pelicans |
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Black-bellied
Whistling-Ducks seen from a boat ride on 13 March 2013 |
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American Pygmy
Kingfisher on Black Creek. I recommend the boat ride to see waterbirds
up close. 13 March 2013. |
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Adult Northern Jacana
at Crooked Tree on 13 March 2013 |
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Juvenile Northern
Jacanas look so different from the adults. 13 March 2013. |
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Snail Kites are numerous on the lagoons where they feed on Apple Snails. Their special bill
enables them to get at the soft body inside the shell. |
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Female Apple Snails
usually lay their eggs at night on stakes and emergent vegetation in
the lagoons. 13 March 2013. |
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Neotropic Cormorant |
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Gull-billed Tern on 12
March 2013. |
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I enjoyed seeing Pectoral Sandpipers,
which are northbound migrants in Belize in early March. When the
lagoons dry and mudflats develop in late March and April, huge number
of northbound shorebirds refuel at Crooked Tree. |
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Wood Storks and Great
Egrets |
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