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Merlin Falco columbarius
This is an uncommon winter visitor throughout the region. My only confirmed records are from the coast of El Salvador at Bahia de Jiquilisco and at the mouth of the Rio Jiboa. I am also pretty sure that I saw one once in the highlands of Guatemala near to Quetzaltenango. The Jiquilisco bird was seen in October and was almost certainly on migration, as it flew in from further up the coast, landed in a bush beside the beach and then headed across the wide estuary as if continuing its movement south.