JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER
Written in Yokdzonot and issued from a “ciber” in
Pisté, beside Chichén Itzá ruin, Yucatán, MÉXICO
November 10, 2008
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FERRUGINOUS PYGMY-OWL
In both Querétaro and Chiapas Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls,
GLAUCIDIUM BRASILIANUM, were common and conspicuous.
Sometimes their unceasing hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo… whistle-
call — about three hoos each second — carried on so
long you sort of wished they’d stop. The species is
here, too, also hooting, but not as interminably as
sometimes they do. Wednesday morning along the road to
Mexil one perched on a limb beside the road in plain
view about 30 feet away, allowing the photo shown at
http://www.backyardnature.net/
| Nov 10 |
