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Cerro Musun and the Wing-banded Antbird

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1 April 2014 This is the day we dubbed the wing-banded goose chase. The name was coined long before the day was over and long before we’d found the bird we were looking for, but before we’d gotten too tired and defeated to joke about it. The Wing-banded Antbird has a disparate distribution, being known from a few locales in Nicaragua, a few in [...]

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 [...]

Tikal

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22-25 February 2014 The Peten region of Guatemala is full of great birding locations and opportunities, foremost Tikal but also Yaxhá, Laguna del Tigre / Ruinas El Perú, Cerro Cahuí, and other locations further afield for the more adventurous, such as El Mirador. We gave a lot of thought to birding the Peten more extensively but ultimately [...]

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 [...]