White Hawk – Birds of passage

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 [...]

Birding the Lacandona – Palenque, Yaxchilan, Bonampak and more!

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21 October – 28 October 2013 We spent a great weekend with a large group of friends who were in San Cristobal for the XII Congreso para el Estudio y Conservacion de las Aves en Mexico (CECAM). Participants at the CECAM conference shared current research and discussed avian conservation in Mexico. Unfortunately our Spanish classes prevented our [...]

Metetí and Canopy Camp Darién

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15 June 2012 – Metetí and Canopy Camp Darién Returning from Patiño we had Ancon drop us at Hotel Felicidad in Metetí, where we stayed for the next couple of nights. Not deluxe but it was clean and we slept well and it set us back all of $14 / night. Killing a few minutes behind the hotel we found Olivaceous Piculet and Streak-headed [...]

Punta Patiño, Darién

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12-15 July 2012 – Into the Darién and Punta Patiño The first half of our week in the Darién involved going to Punta Patiño and Mogue with Ancon Expeditions in order to try to see a Harpy Eagle and a Crested Eagle. The trip was, in ways, amazing but also, in many ways, disappointing. The Gulf of San Miguel is amazing and the hours we spent [...]