My first ever perched Hook-billed Kite, and of the highlights of the trip for me. Ironically, we almost wrote this bird off as a Roadside Hawk which we had seen soaring in same area earlier, and calling regularly. Luckily, we did more than glance at it, and had great looks in the scope at this awesome tropical raptor! Now, to get a look like this in TX, where I've only had distant looks at one in the air.

This bird was terribly backlit, thus the extreme overexposure and washing-out.