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Thursday, October 25th, 2007...5:12 pm

Birds of Macuiltepec

The Museo de Fuana at the top of the park, which you may read about below, includes a nice collection of raptors tethered along the sloping front yard of the museum.

The birds have at some point been injured and rehabilitated; but are, for one reason or another, unfit for reintroduction to the wild.

The bird at left is a Caraca, of which I saw a number in a very rural part of the Yucatan, a few miles inland from the North coast.

The white bird at the right is a Gavilan Nevado, the most endangered bird in Veracruz.

The bird at left is a Cetreria.

I learned at the museum that Veracruz is home to 720 species of birds and 171 species of mammals.

I also learned that the mammal called a Zorra here is a fox, which is also a term applied to men who, I suppose one could put it, enjoy an active social life with the opposite sex.

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