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	Cozumel: About Our Island
		The Mayans believed that Cozumel was the spiritual home of Ixchel, the Mayan Goddess of fertility and love, and Mayan women are said to have journeyed from all parts of the vast Mayan empire to worship at her shrines on the island.
		In fact, the name Cozumel comes from the Mayan word "Cuzamil-Pectin" or "Land of the Swallows" because, as legend has it, she thanked the women for dedicating temples here to her by sending her favorite bird as a sign of gratitude.
		In 1848 Cozumel's population began to grow again as it was reinhabited by Mayan and white Spanish refugees from the long and bloody Caste War on the mainland.
	www.cozumelmycozumel.com /Pages/AboutCozumel.htm (801 words)

	Cozumel Resource Page - cosumel
		Cozumel (Maya: Island of the Swallows) is an island off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatбn Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen.
		In the ensuing years Cozumel was nearly deserted, used as a hideout by pirates from time to time.
		Cozumel belongs to the State of Quintana-Roo (Q-Roo), Cozumel is a municipality that consists of the island of Cozumel and a piece of mainland that also belongs to the municipality.
	globalcpr.com /Cozumel.html (567 words)

	Discoveries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The discovery of the Cozumel thrasher was announced jointly by the American Bird Conservancy and Conservation International, both based in Washington, D.C. Gavin Shire of the American Bird Conservancy called it "a remarkable rediscovery" considering the bird hadn't been seen for 10 years.
		The Cozumel thrasher is a brown and white bird about 9 inches long with a long, curved bill.
		An undated photo of the Cozumel thrasher, a bird thought by some to be extinct, which has been discovered on the island of Cozumel, off Mexico's Caribbean coast.
	www.birdsofyucatan.com /Discoveries.html (205 words)

	WeddingChannel -- Honeymoon Destinations -- Cozumel
		Cozumel was a well-known diving spot before Cancún ever existed, and it has ranked for years among the top five dive destinations in the world.
		The name of Cozumel comes from the Maya word Cuzamil, meaning ``land of the swallows.'' Today, it remains the home of two species of birds found nowhere else: the Cozumel vireo and the Cozumel thrasher.
		Because Cozumel enjoys such popularity with the cruise ships, the waterfront section of town is wall-to-wall jewelry stores (many more than you would think demand could support) and souvenir shops.
	wedding.weddingchannel.com /travel/frommers/Cozumel/overview/index.asp (1048 words)

	The Suburban and Wayne Times - In pursuit of the Cozumel thrasher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bird, commonly known as the Cozumel thrasher, is among the rarest birds in the world and may be the single most critically endangered bird species in Mexico.
		The Cozumel thrasher has a curved bill, is reddish brown in color and is about the size of an ordinary robin.
		Although the island of Cozumel is "a big haystack in which we're looking for a needle," said Curry, the Villanova professor is hopeful that more will be discovered about the critically endangered Cozumel thrasher's population size and range.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=12619354&BRD=1677&PAG=461&dept_id=82745&rfi=6 (706 words)

	Cozumel Thrasher ~ Bibliography
		Cozumel Island fox (Urocyon sp.) dwarfism and possible divergence history based on subfossil bones.
		Registros del Cuitlacoche de Cozumel Toxostoma guttatum posteriores al Huracán Gilberto.
		Evolutionary patterns of morphometrics, allozymes, and mitochondrial DNA in thrashers (genus Toxostoma).
	oikos.villanova.edu /cozumel/bibliography.html (387 words)

	washingtonpost.com: SCIENCE
		A team of field biologists has sighted the Cozumel thrasher, a bird not seen in nearly a decade that many thought had gone extinct, the American Bird Conservancy and Conservation International announced Friday.
		Past expeditions that sought to spot the thrasher failed, but last month a team of biologists working with Villanova University and the Mexican counterpart of the Island Endemics Institute spotted a single bird, proving it was not extinct.
		The thrasher is similar to a mockingbird, a medium-size brown-and-white bird with a long, curved bill.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A43401-2004Jul11?language=printer (739 words)

	'Extinct' bird rediscovered in Mexico
		July 9, 2004 (Washington, DC) — The Cozumel Thrasher (Toxostoma guttatum), a bird not seen or recorded by scientists for close to a decade and thought by some to have gone extinct, was sighted last month by a team of field biologists, American Bird Conservancy and Conservation International announced today.
		The Cozumel Thrasher, an endemic bird found only on the island of Cozumel off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, appears to have experienced a precipitous decline in 1988 after Hurricane Gilbert tore through the island.
		Although the hurricanes are believed to have had a major negative impact on the birds, scientists believe that other factors must have contributed to the decline, because the Cozumel Thrasher likely survived hurricanes for millennia.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-07/ci-br070804.php (634 words)

	The Cozumel Thrasher: One Bird Away From Extinction
		To protect the Cozumel thrasher and other rare species from disturbance, the exact location of the discovery is not being disclosed to the public.
		The Cozumel thrasher is an endemic bird found only on the island of Cozumel off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
		The Cozumel thrasher is a medium-sized bird, 23 centimenters (nine inches) long, similar to a mockingbird.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jul2004/2004-07-09-01.asp (621 words)

	Cozumel Snorkel
		Cozumel is an island off the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, opposite Playa del Carmen.
		The Cozumel Thrasher, ''Toxostoma guttatum'', is a bird from the Mimidae family, which is found only on the island of Cozumel off the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
		Until it was sighted in June 2004, this bird had last been seen in 1995, the same year that Hurricane Roxanne hit Cozumel on October 11, and it was widely believed to have become extinct.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/44/cozumel-snorkel.html (1223 words)

	Office of Communication and Public Affairs
		The Cozumel Thrasher is an endemic bird found only on the island of Cozumel off theYucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
		According to the biologist, it is a medium-sized songbird, a close relative to the American brown thrasher, about the size of a mockingbird, and a streaky reddish brown in color.
		The Cozumel bird population appears to have experienced a precipitous decline in 1988 after Hurricane Gilbert tore through the island.
	www.publications.villanova.edu /blueprints/september2004/curry.htm (502 words)

	Cozumel Travel Guide: Hotels, Scuba Diving Services, Dive Centers, Travel Agencies and Real Estate
		The Mayans believed that Cozumel was the spiritual home of Ixchel, the Mayan Goddess of fertility and love, and Mayan women would journey from all parts of the Mayan empire to worship at her shrines.
		Cozumel is Mexico's largest island, nestled just 12 miles off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
		The name Cozumel comes from the Mayan word "Cuzamil-Pectin" or "Land of the Swallows" because, as legend has it, she thanked the women for dedicating temples to her by sending her favorite bird as a sign of gratitude.
	www.travel-cozumel.com /history.html (656 words)

	bootstrap analysis: the end of the cozumel thrasher?
		This may prove to be the end of the Cozumel Thrasher.
		The Cozumel Thrasher (Toxostoma guttatum) is endemic to Cozumel Island, and so few are thought to exist that it is categorized as critically endangered.
		The fact that two previous hurricanes had such apparent devastating impacts on Cozumel Thrasher populations does not bode well for this species, considering the strength of Wilma and the amount of time it is expected to lash the island.
	nuthatch.typepad.com /ba/2005/10/the_end_of_the_.html (610 words)

	Cozumel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rest of the island is low, flat, and densely vegetated.
		Some 40,000 Maya people lived on the island then, but smallpox devastated them and by 1570 only 30 were left alive.
		At 15:30 on October 21, 2005, Hurricane Wilma, a Category 4 hurricane (the island's second hit in three months), made a direct hit on the island, its eye crossing the island from southeast to northwest.
	www.kopete.org /Cozumel.html (460 words)

	Cozumel Vacation Homes, Fine Rentals Villas and Condos on Cozumel Island Natural World Page
		The Cozumel Bananaquit, a white-throated race of the normally gray-throated Bananaquit found elsewhere in the tropics, is a sparrow-size bird with a yellow belly, fl back and head, and a white stripe above the eye.
		Also indigenous to Cozumel are the Cozumel Thrasher, a cousin and look-alike of the Brown Thrasher of the USA, and the Cozumel Vireo, which looks pretty much like any other Vireo, except for its rusty-colored back and head.
		You may notice that in Cozumel virtually all the coconut palms are pretty short on Cozumel.
	www.cozumelhomes.com /guide/naturalworld.htm (914 words)

	Cozumel Thrasher ~ Cozumel's avifauna (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An additional endemic subspecies, the Cozumel Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas cozumelae) was described by van Rossem (1934), but the description was based solely on two dubious Gaumer specimens.
		The subspecies of the Dusky-capped Flycatcher native to the Yucatán and Cozumel, Myiarchus tuberculifer platyrhynchus, was first described from a Cozumel specimen (Ridgway 1885).
		However, the subspecies is not endemic to Cozumel (contra Howell and Webb 1995).
	www.oikos.bio.villanova.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /cozumel/highlights.html (184 words)

	Khans Travel N' Tours - Cozumel
		What's more, Cozumel has the feel of a small island--short roads that don't go very far, lots of mopeds, few buses and trucks, and a sense of isolation.
		The name comes from the Maya word Cuzamil, meaning "land of the swallows." Today, it remains the home of two species of birds found nowhere else: the Cozumel vireo and the Cozumel thrasher.
		The only town on the island is San Miguel, which, despite the growth of the last 20 years, can't be called anything more than a small town.
	www.khanstravel.com /maincozumel.htm (534 words)

	Extinct Bird Rediscovered in Mexico
		It immediately became rare, but small numbers of the bird were known to exist until it was last sighted in 1995.
		That same year, Hurricane Roxanne ripped through Cozumel and may have also contributed to the species’ decline.
		Fortunately, large tracts of deciduous and semi-deciduous forest, thought to be the species' preferred habitat, still remain, and the birds are not hunted or trapped for the pet trade.
	www.abcbirds.org /media/releases/cozumel_thrasher_release.htm (641 words)

	Once a pirate's hangout, Cozumel is now a splash destination - Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal:
		Settled by the Mayans around 300 A.D., Cozumel became a commercial port for local sea trade and a ceremonial destination for Mayan women who worshipped Ixchel, a fertility goddess whose sanctuary still draws visitors to the Mayan ruins at San Gervasio.
		In the 17th and 18th centuries, Cozumel gained notoriety as a favorite hideout for pirates Henry Morgan and Jean Lafitte.
		Cozumel is home to the Cozumel vireo and the Cozumel thrasher, two species of birds found nowhere else.
	sanjose.bizjournals.com /sanjose/stories/2002/03/11/focus3.html?t=printable (752 words)

	Thrasher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thrashers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds.
		Their common name describes the behaviour of these birds when searching for food on the ground: they use their long bills to "thrash" through dirt or dead leaves.
		Pearly-eyed thrasher, a common bird in the British Virgin Islands
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thrasher (120 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Cozumel, Mexico
		I hope (and expect) that birding at Cozumel will be better in the near future although there is little hope for the Cozumel Thrasher.
		This is a short note for birders interested in birding Cozumel Island and wonder how the situation was shortly after hurricane Wilma hit Cozumel.
		Cozumel is probably green again and the best spots are different now.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/mexico/mexico18/cozumel-nov-2005.htm (897 words)

	Thrasher family
		While thrashers and catbirds have wonderful vocalizations, perhaps the best known of all the mimids are the mockingbirds.
		It was in the Caribbean islands of St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Dominica that I encountered perhaps the strangest thrashers of all -- the two species of tremblers.
		An outstanding set of tapes of all the thrashers and mimids of the world is Hardy et al.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/thrashers.html (1458 words)

	Conservation International - Feature Stories - Protecting Rare Birds in Mexico and Trinidad
		The Cozumel thrasher (Toxostoma guttatum), a small brown bird endemic to the Mexican island of Cozumel, was believed extinct because it hadn’t been reliably recorded since 1995.
		The island’s thrasher population had plummeted because of introduced boa constrictors and habitat destruction by hurricanes.
		CI and partners are now working to protect the habitat of the Cozumel thrasher and several other endemic species.
	www.conservation.org /xp/frontlines/species/03150501.xml (256 words)

	Invasive Species Weblog
		Are introduced boa constrictors (Boa constrictor) responsible for the near extinction of the Cozumel thrasher (Toxostoma guttatum)?
		Scientists may never have known, had one of them not discovered one of the endemic island birds, after almost a decade of wondering whether the species had perished.
		The Times Leader is reporting that Dr. Robert L. Curry hopes to study nesting sites of the thrasher to determine whether boa predation is a threat.
	invasivespecies.blogspot.com /2004_11_14_invasivespecies_archive.html (2254 words)

	Nature News ClearlyExplained.Com
		In this case a bird called a Cozumel Thrasher that was officially thought extinct has been spotted again after being out of sight for over 10 years.
		Similar to a mockingbird the Cozumel Thrasher is about 23 cm long.
		Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International told the American Bird Conservancy that "The rediscovery of the Cozumel Thrasher is a reminder of two key things: the importance of tropical islands for biodiversity conservation, and the importance of never giving up on a species - no matter how rare,"
	clearlyexplained.com /news/nature/1N1107_2004.html (146 words)

	Swarovski Birding E-Bulletin
		Two hurricanes, Gilbert in 1988 and Roxanne in 1995, are thought to have contributed to the decline and possible extinction of the Cozumel Thrasher (Toxostoma guttatum), an endemic species from the island of Cozumel off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
		While the hurricanes are believed to have had a major impact on the birds, ornithologists believe that other factors must have contributed to the decline, since Cozumel Thrashers have likely survived hurricanes for millennia.
		In the meantime, the exact location of the rediscovery on Cozumel Island is not being disclosed to the public.
	www.refugenet.org /birding/augSBC04.html (2747 words)

	Birding in Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: Yucatan Birds
		Only Cozumel Island can claim exclusive rights to 3 endemic species not found anywhere else in the world; Cozumel Emerald, Cozumel Vireo and Cozumel Thrasher.
		There are a number of interesting endemic subspecies on the island as well, including Cozumel Wren, Golden Walblers, Rufous-browed Peppershrike and the Bananaquit, with is also found on the Quintana Roo mainland coast.
		In addition to the Cozumel specialties, the other 11 endemic species are found throughout the region, as described above, including: Ocellated Turkey, Yellow-lored (Yucatan) Parrot, Yucatan Poorwill, Yucatan Nightjar, Red-vented (Yucatan) Woodpecker, Yucatan Flycatcher, Yucatan Jay, Yucatan Wren, Black Catbird, Rose-throated Tanager and Orange Oriole.
	www.flamingoscabins.com /birding.html (1004 words)

	COZUMEL ALL INCLUSIVE VACATION RESORTS
		Cozumel has been a well-known diving spot for decades, and it has ranked for years among the top five dive destinations in the world.
		Cozumel was a well-known diving spot before Cancun ever existed, and it has ranked for years among the top five dive destinations in the world.
		Cortez went on to convert the Indians and replace their idols with a cross and a statue of Mary in the main temple at Cozumel.
	www.sunvacations.org /COZUMEL.htm (836 words)

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