{"id":3588,"date":"2020-11-18T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:41:08","slug":"raptor-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/raptor-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptor Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Jason G. Goldman<\/em><\/p>\n Every year, millions of birds of prey migrate from summertime breeding grounds in North America to overwintering grounds in South America. One section of their pathway stretches nearly 2500 miles between central Texas and northwestern Colombia\u2019s Choc\u00f3 rainforests and is known as the Mesoamerican Land Corridor. More than five million raptors \u2013 the family of birds that includes vultures, hawks, eagles, and owls \u2013 can be seen making the journey each year. It’s the most important flyway for raptors in the Americas.<\/p>\n More than one million of them pass through a narrow stretch of southern Nicaragua, bounded on the west by Lago Cocibolca and on the east by Reserva Biol\u00f3gica Indio Ma\u00edz. That’s according to a survey conducted in 2019 on behalf of Paso Pac\u00edfico in San Miguelito. Over just twenty-three days of monitoring, biologists counted more than 1.2 million raptors passing overhead. Just over eight hundred thousand of them were turkey vultures. Also abundant were Swainson’s hawks and broad-winged hawks. In all, they documented sixteen different types of raptors.<\/p>\n