By Yucatan Times on January 25, 2018
The finding of trogons and toucans
in urban areas of Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatan during 2017, launched a
protocol of contingency and an investigation into the migration of more than
400 birds to the city, which conclusions were announced on December.
According to a statement from the
Conacyt Information Agency on January 11, the birds founded in the cities
presented a fatigue condition, and the death of at least one hundred of them
warned about the possibility of an alteration in their habitat, caused by the
climate change and human activity.
In an interview, biologist Gisela
Maldonado Saldaña, director of Kanantik and member of the State Committee for
Wildlife Quintana Roo, explained that the birds reported are distributed in
medium and high forests of the Yucatan Peninsula and rarely approach coastal or
urban areas, because the type of food they require is only found in the
rainforest.
However, during 2017, many
sightings of these species were recorded, especially in Cancun, Playa del
Carmen, Tulum, Holbox, Mahahual and Bacalar. “We observed erratic flights, they
were too close to urban areas. Some were of these specimens were found trapped
inside supermarket stores and other high-ceiling buildings, because they
entered when the doors were open and then they could not exit” he said.
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