I got to see two brown pelicans while I was there, but they were both flying by pretty fast.
^Double-crested cormorants.
There weren't many gulls, but these huge frigate birds were always drifting above the shore. I never saw one standing on land or sitting on the water, and in my guidebook it says "...it swoops (unlike other birds, it doesn't dive or swim) to pluck food from the water's surface--or more commonly, it steals catch from the mouths of other birds."
^Some kind of woodpecker, I assume. This one had a nest in a palm tree just a few yards from my cabana. When it came to drop off food I could hear the babies hissing.
I saw tricolor herons wading at sunset, sort of far south where there aren't many people.
I think these are some variety of sandpiper, possibly turnstone.
I also saw osprey, bats, and hummingbirds. On the morning I was leaving I ran into a guy with binoculars looking for hummingbirds, and he said that in the U.S. we only have a few varieties of hummingbird, but in Belize they have around 50.
