You’ve probably only seen the Common Pauraque (por-AH-keh) as a black ghost with glaring red eyes, popping eerily up off the road in front of your vehicle as you drive in the dark down country roads. It’s waiting on that road or on a footpath or other open areas, ready to leap into flight to catch insects visible against the lighter road or the sky.
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This large, 15″ long woodpecker is the tropical equivalent of the fabled extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker once found the US. It is a major presence in the rain forest of BIB, swooping between dead tree snags, searching for beetles and other insects it hears boring away beneath the surface.
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Look for Keel-billed Toucans in the canopies of tall trees and along the river at Better in Belize. If you know what to listen for, you can often hear their call, a frog-like “crrikk, crrikk, crrikk,” about one croak per second.
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