Female Ocellated Turkeys lay 8-15 eggs in a well concealed nest on the ground.

Wild ocellated turkeys in feathers of blue, purple and gold parade about the lawn, like dowagers at a garden party.

Species found in the park include Keel-billed Motmots, kinkajous, jaguars, jaguarundis, king vultures, margays, ocelots, ocellated turkeys, Yucatan Spider Monkeys, and Baird's tapirs.

Regarding the fauna, agouti, white-nosed coatis, gray foxes, Geoffroy's spider monkeys, howler monkeys, harpy eagles, falcons, ocellated turkeys, guans, toucans, green parrots and leafcutter ants can be seen there regularly.

The fauna also includes Central American Agoutis, Geoffroy's Spider Monkeys, Guatemalan Black Howlers, Baird's Tapir, White-nosed Coatis, Ocellated Turkeys, Crested Guans, toucans, and green parrots.

An Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata) was also considered to be the bird depicted, but the hooked bill and wattle point to the raptor.

Ocellated Turkey, (Meleagris ocellata)

The other living species is Meleagris ocellata or the Ocellated Turkey, native to the forests of the Yucatán Peninsula.

The ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a different species of turkey, and currently exists only in a portion of the Yucutan peninsula.

Ocellated turkey, Meleagris ocellata (synonym, Agriocharis ocellata), Cuvier, 1820, photographed at Yucatán, Mexico (Central America).

There are two species of turkey pursued as game animals in North America, the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and the Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata).