Green Shrike-vireo

Braulio Carillo National Park and El Tapir

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7-9 May 2014 The Quebrada Gonzalez station in Braulio Carillo National Park is well known as a birding destination where you can find fantastic primary foothill rainforest at about 500 m elevation. Just about a mile north of Quebrada Gonzalez is the small hummingbird garden of El Tapir, famous as a great place to find the Snowcap. However, El [...]

Honduras Part 2: Pico Bonito, Rio Santiago, Aguan Valley, Parque Nacional La Muralla, and La Tigra

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19-28 Mar 2014 Pico Bonito, Rio Santiago, Aguan Valley, Parque Nacional La Muralla, and La Tigra Pico Bonito and Rio Santiago Pico Bonito National Park is probably the most widely known birding destination in Honduras, though information on access is pretty slim online, as most of the fame goes to the excellent, though very expensive, Lodge at [...]

Southern Belize and the hunt for the Keel-billed Motmot

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Mayflower Bocawina, Cockscomb Basin, and Hopkins Village 7- 13 Feb 2014 As most of the birds of Belize can also be found in Mexico, and having seen most of the birds in Mexico, there were not many new species that we needed to seek out, but we were still keen to bird some of the large rainforest reserves of southern Belize. We tried to access [...]

Return to the Lacantún

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10 –17 December 2013 We could not resist another trip down to the Chiapas lowlands before we headed on towards the Yucatan. We also needed to get new tourist visas and a new vehicle import permit since we have already been in Mexico for nearly 180 days (the length of a [...]

Los Tuxtlas and the Tuxtla Quail-Dove chase

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2 – 3 September 2013 After the Bearded Wood-Partridge chase we were headed for yet another chase of a secretive endemic bird of montane forests. We arrived in Ruiz Cortines late in the afternoon, not really knowing what to expect and we needed to find a place to camp for the night. We stopped at the first little store on the way into town and [...]