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But my experiences in Belize and Honduras give me a good basis in the birds of the region and I have plenty of time to study and learn what to expect with the endemics. In a little less than two weeks my family and I will be enjoying a long weekend on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. While June is not the best time of year to get huge numbers of neotropical migrants it did work out perfectly for us in terms of when we could go and find a really good deal to take advantage of. MORE
Great Green Macaw digiscoped at the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras For many centuries throughout the world mankind has kept birds as pets. Parrots confiscated at the Honduran/Nicaraguan border now at the National Zoo in Tegucigalpa, Honduras © James Gilardi The controversy starts right here between us and the birds. In reality there are two main factors that are affecting the birds of Honduras which is population growth and the capture for the pet trade. MORE
Last week I was living it up in beautiful Honduras at the exceptional Lodge at Pico Bonito at the behest of friends at Leica. It sat in a box in my house for weeks but I through it in my bag for Honduras because Jeff Bouton, Leica rep and stand-up guy, guaranteed that I’d be able to make something out of it. That’s a long way of saying that I took a lot of short videos while I was in Honduras. Aguan Valley, Honduras. Aguan Valley, Honduras. MORE
A week-long family vacation to Honduras is sadly over. This one was in Cayos Cochinos, the small island chain off of Honduras. Hopefully, you liked this brief look into the Honduras birds I saw. Make sure to come back for lots more Honduras birds! Birds HondurasFortunately, we made lots of great memories and took lots of photos. MORE
Pico Bonito, Honduras, March 2009 On our way to the lovely Lodge at Pico Bonito on the edge of Pico Bonito National Park in northern Honduras, Robert Gallardo, the organizer of the Mesoamerican Birding Festival and the post-festival familiarity trip that I am currently experiencing, let us all know that a Great Potoo ( Nyctibius grandis ) had been roosting along the side of the entrance road. Birds Honduras Mesoamerica potoos MORE
Although this beauty also lives in the forests of Honduras, Nicaragua, and western Panama, it is most accessible in Costa Rica. A couple of the biggest of bird families are restricted to the Americas. Both can be found in nearly every available habitat, one is infamous for giving birders identification malaise, the other for putting on dazzling natural shows of grit and iridescence. MORE
On a recent trip down memory lane in the form of searching through old photos from my trip to Honduras I serendipitously stumbled upon a series of shots of a woodpecker feeding from flower blossoms in a tree. Birds honduras subspecies woodpeckersI was relatively certain that the bird was a Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons but, time and memory being what they are I figured a quick search online to make sure couldn’t hurt. MORE
It has a high, thin warble, but I usually only hear its high, soft tsii call.The Golden-browed Warbler can be found from Mexico down to Honduras, and like the Red Warbler , its warble is rarely heard, while its buzzy tsssi call is quite common. The Crescent-chested Warbler can be found in somewhat drier pine-oak forests, also from Mexico to Honduras, and it is one Wood Warbler with no warble at all. MORE
Until today the only Painted Buntings I had ever seen were in Honduras. And, despite their absurdly gaudy appearance, I am sad to say that those buntings were not given their due because of the sheer volume of insanely good birds that were there for the watching. This bunting was different. This was an absolutely gorgeous adult male Painted Bunting in Connecticut in November. Nothing was going to compete with a Painted Bunting in Connecticut in November. MORE
Copan, Honduras, February 2009 A word of warning: this is going to be a rather long post so go grab a snack and make yourself comfortable before you start reading. Of course, it was a Roadside Hawk that several had already seen and identified, perhaps my worst identification mix-up of the whole trip to Honduras. More information on the birds of Honduras’s western and southwestern highlands can be found on Robert Gallardo’s informative site here. MORE
Reptiles Honduras LizardsIt is not every day that one gets to see a pair of Green Iguanas sunning themselves on a bush from close range. But, as I have already shown in one of my two posts about visiting Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, that is exactly what the boat load of birders I was with got the chance to see way back at the beginning of March. MORE
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was difficult to choose, seeing as part of it occurred while he was still in Honduras. Don’t mourn the passing of the summer season just yet. Believe it or not, we still have all of August and much of September in which to revel in heat and humidity, at least on my side of the Equator. Some of us will get more than others, but all of us should enjoy what we can! MORE
Honduras was finally a reality. Excellent 10,000 Birds posts have been written about Pico Bonito and Honduras by Corey and Carlos , so I’m going to focus on some of my most memorable experiences. I hope, despite BLI predictions, they find a safe haven in this area of Honduras for decades to come. Trips Honduras Pico Bonito There was no snow. MORE
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Bushy-crested Jay , one of quote a few fine species he spotted while exploring the area around Copan Ruinas in Honduras. Was your weekend pleasingly full or pleasurably empty? We measure our happiness not in moments of activity but rather memories of satisfaction. I was well satisfied to travel through farm country this weekend and count the many American Kestrels perched predatorily above the fields. MORE
Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, Honduras, March 2009 After our trip to the Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge was rained out on our first morning at The Lodge at Pico Bonito we rescheduled our visit for our second and last morning at the lodge. Trips Honduras Mammals mangroves Mesoamerica MORE
Before arriving in the town of Copan Ruinas, Honduras, on February 27, 2009, I had only ever heard Inca Doves. Birds Copan digiscoping doves Honduras Inca Dove MesoamericaTheir melancholy “no hope, no hope” had reached my ears previously only in the town of Brawley at the south end of the Salton Sea in southern California. MORE
In September, I had the fantastic opportunity to travel to an increasingly popular destination for birding: Honduras. As one who is perennially interested in biogeography, the birds found in the upper elevations of Honduras were of particular interest to me. One of these islands may have been the present day Northern Central American Highlands which includes Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of extreme southern Mexico (Chiapas). MORE
I’m still recovering from last week’s veritable banquet of birding in Honduras, which I’ll be writing about soon. Calendar spring is nearly at an end, but nature summer started a while ago. Most birders, attuned as they are to the rhythms of the natural world, probably noticed when migration ended and bird breeding began in their areas. Don’t give up yet, though: you’ll still find a few surprises out there if you’re willing to look. MORE
I have been in Honduras in winter, when the birds should be there, and never found one. The first, back in 2009, was when I was in Honduras. “Thus, I give up the binoculars!” ” – Captain Ahab’s last words (paraphrased). I have been relatively fortunate in my birding life in that I don’t have a single nemesis bird that has vexed me. MORE
Corey had no trouble dragging his family to Honduras, where he’ll surely see more interesting birds than me! American poet, novelist, and playwright Paul Laurence Dunbar saw summer the way many of us do, reflected in the wild world around him. Does Summer in the South , written in 1903, speak to you? The oriole sings in the greening grove. As if he were half-way waiting, The rosebuds peep from their hoods of green, Timid, and hesitating. The rain comes down in a torrent sweep. MORE
I first met Robert Gallardo on my first trip to the neotropics, a wonderful experience at the first Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras in 2009. He is a great birder and has found over thirty new species in Honduras since he moved there in 1993. Robert’s latest project, with the artist John Sill, is to produce and self-publish a field guide to the birds of Honduras in both English and Spanish. Why are you creating a field guide to the birds of Honduras? MORE
Guide to the Birds of Honduras is an extraordinary creation, noteworthy for both the excellence of the work itself and the years of work that went into making it a reality. Gallardo has been a professional bird guide in Honduras since 2001 and first came to the country as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1993 (his “Chronology of Field Work in Honduras” is a chapter in the book). Europe, and Honduras itself. Guide to the Birds of Honduras. MORE
These thoughts crossed my mind as I returned from a week of birding bliss as a guest of the Honduras Institute of Tourism. Most of us know all too well the bittersweet mood returning from a birding trip evokes. On the one hand, a successful adventure results in rich memories, accumulated wisdom, and—if you did it right—plenty of lifers. On the other hand, you have all those photos to process and lists to sort. Actually, even those parts of a birding trip can be sweet. MORE
From 1786, when the British appointed a superintendent over the colony of Scottish and British settlers known as Baymen, until 1981, when it was granted independence, Belize, which was known until 1973 as British Honduras, was a colony of the United Kingdom. When choosing a national bird many countries choose instantly recognizable members of their avifauna which is often a wise idea. After all, if a bird is to be a symbol it should be easily recognized, even when represented abstractly. MORE
The birding around Lago de Yojoa in Honduras is frankly phenomenal, as I learned during a June 2018 birding junket organized by the Instituto Hondureño de Turismo. Any sane birder (I won’t speak for the crazy ones) visiting Honduras hopes to see that nation’s only known endemic, a delicate and sporadically distributed hummingbird called the Honduran Emerald. Destinations Central America Honduras MORE
It was easier to get a shot when they were landing: One of the best parts of being with three other bird bloggers is I got to regale them with tales of the trip to Honduras (though I’m not sure that they would agree with that). By the end of our circumnavigation of the West Pond we had totalled 38 species, a decent haul for mid-March and I hadn’t come close to exhausting my store of Honduras anecdotes. MORE
I first met Robert Gallardo in 2009, when I made my first visit to the Neotropics for the Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras. Robert arrived in Honduras with Peace Corps in 1993 and has been a resident ever since. He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. On top of that, he wrote and self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras (which we interviewed him about back in 2012). MORE
We interrupt regularly scheduled deconstructing, editorializing, commenting and ranting to bring you a letter from John Perkins : Dear Friends Speaking of Democracy, Honduras, and President Obama. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages. MORE
The trip up and into wind and rain of Irazu Volcano with Chris Balchin, Guy Kirwan, and John Van Dort when few of the rare targets showed but talking about soaring Harpy Eagles in Brazil, bird distribution in Honduras, and the gains of the Neotropical Bird Club was priceless. I write this on the final day of the year, the last bit of 2019. The point of orbit for which the Earth starts and completes its merry-go-round the Sun is subjective but according to eBird, now is the time. MORE
Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. Press, 1989); A Guide to the Birds to the Birds of Panama, with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, 2nd ed. , Press, 2014); and Guide to the Birds of Honduras by Robert J. Gallardo’s Honduras guide is old-school, with plates separate from descriptive text. MORE
I’m prepping for a big birding bonanza in Honduras (!!!!) In terms of migration excitement, June feels like the party you arrived at just a little late. Everyone still seems to having a ball, but the merriment isn’t flowing quite as freely as it was before. Live it up, though, because, with a few weeks, the migration party may really be over! next week, which means this weekend will be devoted primarily to non-birding responsibilities. MORE
But the Steller’s Jay is also a year-round (and very noisy) resident of Mexico’s highest forests, and can be found all the way south to Honduras. One of the ways I could describe the unique mix of birds I can see here in southwestern Mexico, would be to divide our species into five categories. The invasive species are few, but, unfortunately, very numerous. Our endemics are many and wonderful, but mostly not all that common. You have to know where to look for them. MORE
I’ll be enjoying gorgeous weather here in Western New York this weekend, while Corey wings his way to serious tropical birding in Honduras. July is almost over, which means summer is almost over, right? Of course not, but those of us who live for the warmest months feel these moments slipping away as soon as they begin. On the bright side, birds will be back on the move once summer ends! MORE
Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping to see as many species as possible. I was going to be out birding even if an earthquake hit and a civil war broke out simultaneously (neither very likely in Honduras) so it was just a matter of figuring out exactly how I would go about seeing the birds without getting too soaked. Birding Honduras Hotel las Glorias Mesoamerica MORE
No matter how nice this weekend gets, I’d still rather be in a dry forest in Honduras ! Well, April fools, early indications suggest that the long, lingering winter plague that has infected many northern territories won’t be enough to keep birds away. As they’ve done for generations upon countless generations, migrants are trickling in from the south. You may not be able to tell, but the season has shifted. Corey and I will both be birding in the NYC area this weekend. MORE
To this tasty tropical cocktail concocted in July 2018, we added one more volatile ingredient in the form of a contingent of Americans and Hondurans sponsored by the Honduras Institute of Tourism. The trail also passes a number of lagoons reputed to be the best chance in Honduras for Anhinga. The post Birding Zamorano University in Honduras appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Trips Central America Honduras MORE
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Honduras Trip Winner Has Blogged His Trip Honduras Trip Winner Has Blogged His Trip By Corey • March 3, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share One of the two lucky winners of a trip to Honduras when the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club was still live has put up three blog posts detailing his trip. MORE
After wrapping up our time in the highlands of Honduras, Chris Lotz (owner of international bird tour company Birding Ecotours ) and I arrived at the deservedly famous Pico Bonito Lodge. Tody Motmot is perhaps one of the most charismatic bird species in all of Central America, and Honduras is perhaps one of the best places to see it. Trips Central America cotinga Honduras Pico Bonito MORE
Honduras, a beautifully biodiverse Central American gem, offers everything birders look for in a travel destination, starting with ready access to lots of highly coveted bird species. In June 2018, the Honduras Institute of Tourism assembled a feisty team of Honduran and American writers, photographers, guides, and tourism professionals to ever-so-quickly explore just how spectacular birding certain parts of the country could be. Destinations Central America Honduras MORE
I’m still cutting a swath through the Central Highlands of Honduras, enjoying tons of Neotropical birds. Your local season of migration, be it spring or fall, is drawing to a close. Every weekend until the doldrums set in can be special, as long as you’re out there birding. Can’t wait to share some of my finds. Corey will keep it cool in the New York Metro area. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below. MORE
Sure, it’s been well over a month since I returned from my fun-filled, family vacation to Honduras but that doesn’t mean that it’s too late to blog about it, right? And, without a doubt, one of the biggest highlights of our time in Honduras was our outing to Parque Nacional Marino Cayos Cochinos. The avifauna is distinctly Caribbean as well, with some Caribbean species found only on the islands and nowhere else in Honduras. MORE
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / What is the National Bird of Honduras? What is the National Bird of Honduras? By Corey • March 18, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share The national bird of Honduras is the Scarlet Macaw. It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. MORE
So, if you are going to write a field guide on the birds of the countries south and east of Mexico–Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—it makes the utmost sense that you embrace the whole geographic area. This book is a field guide treat for traveling birders and birders who love to fantasize about travel, answering that age-old question, “I’m going on a trip to [fill in the blank—Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras], what field guide should I use?”. MORE
401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. 8 Honduras (778 sp. / Summer is normally the vacation season, for ordinary tourists at least. Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. But – where? I discovered this cover-photo map somewhere at the BirdLife International’s website. MORE
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AUGUST 3, 2015
A week-long family vacation to Honduras is sadly over. This one was in Cayos Cochinos, the small island chain off of Honduras. Hopefully, you liked this brief look into the Honduras birds I saw. Make sure to come back for lots more Honduras birds! Birds HondurasFortunately, we made lots of great memories and took lots of photos.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
To this tasty tropical cocktail concocted in July 2018, we added one more volatile ingredient in the form of a contingent of Americans and Hondurans sponsored by the Honduras Institute of Tourism. The trail also passes a number of lagoons reputed to be the best chance in Honduras for Anhinga. The post Birding Zamorano University in Honduras appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Trips Central America Honduras
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2015
Honduras was finally a reality. Excellent 10,000 Birds posts have been written about Pico Bonito and Honduras by Corey and Carlos , so I’m going to focus on some of my most memorable experiences. I hope, despite BLI predictions, they find a safe haven in this area of Honduras for decades to come. Trips Honduras Pico Bonito There was no snow.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2012
Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping to see as many species as possible. I was going to be out birding even if an earthquake hit and a civil war broke out simultaneously (neither very likely in Honduras) so it was just a matter of figuring out exactly how I would go about seeing the birds without getting too soaked. Birding Honduras Hotel las Glorias Mesoamerica
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2017
I first met Robert Gallardo in 2009, when I made my first visit to the Neotropics for the Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras. Robert arrived in Honduras with Peace Corps in 1993 and has been a resident ever since. He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. On top of that, he wrote and self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras (which we interviewed him about back in 2012).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2018
Guide to the Birds of Honduras is an extraordinary creation, noteworthy for both the excellence of the work itself and the years of work that went into making it a reality. Gallardo has been a professional bird guide in Honduras since 2001 and first came to the country as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1993 (his “Chronology of Field Work in Honduras” is a chapter in the book). Europe, and Honduras itself. Guide to the Birds of Honduras.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Sure, it’s been well over a month since I returned from my fun-filled, family vacation to Honduras but that doesn’t mean that it’s too late to blog about it, right? And, without a doubt, one of the biggest highlights of our time in Honduras was our outing to Parque Nacional Marino Cayos Cochinos. The avifauna is distinctly Caribbean as well, with some Caribbean species found only on the islands and nowhere else in Honduras.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
In September, I had the fantastic opportunity to travel to an increasingly popular destination for birding: Honduras. As one who is perennially interested in biogeography, the birds found in the upper elevations of Honduras were of particular interest to me. One of these islands may have been the present day Northern Central American Highlands which includes Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of extreme southern Mexico (Chiapas).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2015
Last week I was living it up in beautiful Honduras at the exceptional Lodge at Pico Bonito at the behest of friends at Leica. It sat in a box in my house for weeks but I through it in my bag for Honduras because Jeff Bouton, Leica rep and stand-up guy, guaranteed that I’d be able to make something out of it. That’s a long way of saying that I took a lot of short videos while I was in Honduras. Aguan Valley, Honduras. Aguan Valley, Honduras.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 12, 2014
After wrapping up our time in the highlands of Honduras, Chris Lotz (owner of international bird tour company Birding Ecotours ) and I arrived at the deservedly famous Pico Bonito Lodge. Tody Motmot is perhaps one of the most charismatic bird species in all of Central America, and Honduras is perhaps one of the best places to see it. Trips Central America cotinga Honduras Pico Bonito
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
Great Green Macaw digiscoped at the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras For many centuries throughout the world mankind has kept birds as pets. Parrots confiscated at the Honduran/Nicaraguan border now at the National Zoo in Tegucigalpa, Honduras © James Gilardi The controversy starts right here between us and the birds. In reality there are two main factors that are affecting the birds of Honduras which is population growth and the capture for the pet trade.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2012
Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, Honduras, March 2009 After our trip to the Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge was rained out on our first morning at The Lodge at Pico Bonito we rescheduled our visit for our second and last morning at the lodge. Trips Honduras Mammals mangroves Mesoamerica
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Honduras Trip Winner Has Blogged His Trip Honduras Trip Winner Has Blogged His Trip By Corey • March 3, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share One of the two lucky winners of a trip to Honduras when the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club was still live has put up three blog posts detailing his trip.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2012
I first met Robert Gallardo on my first trip to the neotropics, a wonderful experience at the first Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras in 2009. He is a great birder and has found over thirty new species in Honduras since he moved there in 1993. Robert’s latest project, with the artist John Sill, is to produce and self-publish a field guide to the birds of Honduras in both English and Spanish. Why are you creating a field guide to the birds of Honduras?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2018
Honduras, a beautifully biodiverse Central American gem, offers everything birders look for in a travel destination, starting with ready access to lots of highly coveted bird species. In June 2018, the Honduras Institute of Tourism assembled a feisty team of Honduran and American writers, photographers, guides, and tourism professionals to ever-so-quickly explore just how spectacular birding certain parts of the country could be. Destinations Central America Honduras
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2018
The birding around Lago de Yojoa in Honduras is frankly phenomenal, as I learned during a June 2018 birding junket organized by the Instituto Hondureño de Turismo. Any sane birder (I won’t speak for the crazy ones) visiting Honduras hopes to see that nation’s only known endemic, a delicate and sporadically distributed hummingbird called the Honduran Emerald. Destinations Central America Honduras
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2012
Pico Bonito, Honduras, March 2009 On our way to the lovely Lodge at Pico Bonito on the edge of Pico Bonito National Park in northern Honduras, Robert Gallardo, the organizer of the Mesoamerican Birding Festival and the post-festival familiarity trip that I am currently experiencing, let us all know that a Great Potoo ( Nyctibius grandis ) had been roosting along the side of the entrance road. Birds Honduras Mesoamerica potoos
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2012
Before arriving in the town of Copan Ruinas, Honduras, on February 27, 2009, I had only ever heard Inca Doves. Birds Copan digiscoping doves Honduras Inca Dove MesoamericaTheir melancholy “no hope, no hope” had reached my ears previously only in the town of Brawley at the south end of the Salton Sea in southern California.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2012
Copan, Honduras, February 2009 A word of warning: this is going to be a rather long post so go grab a snack and make yourself comfortable before you start reading. Of course, it was a Roadside Hawk that several had already seen and identified, perhaps my worst identification mix-up of the whole trip to Honduras. More information on the birds of Honduras’s western and southwestern highlands can be found on Robert Gallardo’s informative site here.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2011
On a recent trip down memory lane in the form of searching through old photos from my trip to Honduras I serendipitously stumbled upon a series of shots of a woodpecker feeding from flower blossoms in a tree. Birds honduras subspecies woodpeckersI was relatively certain that the bird was a Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons but, time and memory being what they are I figured a quick search online to make sure couldn’t hurt.
Animal Person
AUGUST 6, 2009
We interrupt regularly scheduled deconstructing, editorializing, commenting and ranting to bring you a letter from John Perkins : Dear Friends Speaking of Democracy, Honduras, and President Obama. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2012
Reptiles Honduras LizardsIt is not every day that one gets to see a pair of Green Iguanas sunning themselves on a bush from close range. But, as I have already shown in one of my two posts about visiting Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, that is exactly what the boat load of birders I was with got the chance to see way back at the beginning of March.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2020
It has a high, thin warble, but I usually only hear its high, soft tsii call.The Golden-browed Warbler can be found from Mexico down to Honduras, and like the Red Warbler , its warble is rarely heard, while its buzzy tsssi call is quite common. The Crescent-chested Warbler can be found in somewhat drier pine-oak forests, also from Mexico to Honduras, and it is one Wood Warbler with no warble at all.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2018
I’m prepping for a big birding bonanza in Honduras (!!!!) In terms of migration excitement, June feels like the party you arrived at just a little late. Everyone still seems to having a ball, but the merriment isn’t flowing quite as freely as it was before. Live it up, though, because, with a few weeks, the migration party may really be over! next week, which means this weekend will be devoted primarily to non-birding responsibilities.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2016
So, if you are going to write a field guide on the birds of the countries south and east of Mexico–Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—it makes the utmost sense that you embrace the whole geographic area. This book is a field guide treat for traveling birders and birders who love to fantasize about travel, answering that age-old question, “I’m going on a trip to [fill in the blank—Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras], what field guide should I use?”.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2018
I’m still cutting a swath through the Central Highlands of Honduras, enjoying tons of Neotropical birds. Your local season of migration, be it spring or fall, is drawing to a close. Every weekend until the doldrums set in can be special, as long as you’re out there birding. Can’t wait to share some of my finds. Corey will keep it cool in the New York Metro area. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2015
No matter how nice this weekend gets, I’d still rather be in a dry forest in Honduras ! Well, April fools, early indications suggest that the long, lingering winter plague that has infected many northern territories won’t be enough to keep birds away. As they’ve done for generations upon countless generations, migrants are trickling in from the south. You may not be able to tell, but the season has shifted. Corey and I will both be birding in the NYC area this weekend.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2015
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Bushy-crested Jay , one of quote a few fine species he spotted while exploring the area around Copan Ruinas in Honduras. Was your weekend pleasingly full or pleasurably empty? We measure our happiness not in moments of activity but rather memories of satisfaction. I was well satisfied to travel through farm country this weekend and count the many American Kestrels perched predatorily above the fields.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2015
I’ll be enjoying gorgeous weather here in Western New York this weekend, while Corey wings his way to serious tropical birding in Honduras. July is almost over, which means summer is almost over, right? Of course not, but those of us who live for the warmest months feel these moments slipping away as soon as they begin. On the bright side, birds will be back on the move once summer ends!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2018
These thoughts crossed my mind as I returned from a week of birding bliss as a guest of the Honduras Institute of Tourism. Most of us know all too well the bittersweet mood returning from a birding trip evokes. On the one hand, a successful adventure results in rich memories, accumulated wisdom, and—if you did it right—plenty of lifers. On the other hand, you have all those photos to process and lists to sort. Actually, even those parts of a birding trip can be sweet.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. Press, 1989); A Guide to the Birds to the Birds of Panama, with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, 2nd ed. , Press, 2014); and Guide to the Birds of Honduras by Robert J. Gallardo’s Honduras guide is old-school, with plates separate from descriptive text.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2018
401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. 8 Honduras (778 sp. / Summer is normally the vacation season, for ordinary tourists at least. Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. But – where? I discovered this cover-photo map somewhere at the BirdLife International’s website.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2018
I’m still recovering from last week’s veritable banquet of birding in Honduras, which I’ll be writing about soon. Calendar spring is nearly at an end, but nature summer started a while ago. Most birders, attuned as they are to the rhythms of the natural world, probably noticed when migration ended and bird breeding began in their areas. Don’t give up yet, though: you’ll still find a few surprises out there if you’re willing to look.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2015
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was difficult to choose, seeing as part of it occurred while he was still in Honduras. Don’t mourn the passing of the summer season just yet. Believe it or not, we still have all of August and much of September in which to revel in heat and humidity, at least on my side of the Equator. Some of us will get more than others, but all of us should enjoy what we can!
10,000 Birds
JULY 31, 2015
Corey had no trouble dragging his family to Honduras, where he’ll surely see more interesting birds than me! American poet, novelist, and playwright Paul Laurence Dunbar saw summer the way many of us do, reflected in the wild world around him. Does Summer in the South , written in 1903, speak to you? The oriole sings in the greening grove. As if he were half-way waiting, The rosebuds peep from their hoods of green, Timid, and hesitating. The rain comes down in a torrent sweep.
10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2020
But the Steller’s Jay is also a year-round (and very noisy) resident of Mexico’s highest forests, and can be found all the way south to Honduras. One of the ways I could describe the unique mix of birds I can see here in southwestern Mexico, would be to divide our species into five categories. The invasive species are few, but, unfortunately, very numerous. Our endemics are many and wonderful, but mostly not all that common. You have to know where to look for them.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2011
Until today the only Painted Buntings I had ever seen were in Honduras. And, despite their absurdly gaudy appearance, I am sad to say that those buntings were not given their due because of the sheer volume of insanely good birds that were there for the watching. This bunting was different. This was an absolutely gorgeous adult male Painted Bunting in Connecticut in November. Nothing was going to compete with a Painted Bunting in Connecticut in November.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2020
The trip up and into wind and rain of Irazu Volcano with Chris Balchin, Guy Kirwan, and John Van Dort when few of the rare targets showed but talking about soaring Harpy Eagles in Brazil, bird distribution in Honduras, and the gains of the Neotropical Bird Club was priceless. I write this on the final day of the year, the last bit of 2019. The point of orbit for which the Earth starts and completes its merry-go-round the Sun is subjective but according to eBird, now is the time.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2014
I have been in Honduras in winter, when the birds should be there, and never found one. The first, back in 2009, was when I was in Honduras. “Thus, I give up the binoculars!” ” – Captain Ahab’s last words (paraphrased). I have been relatively fortunate in my birding life in that I don’t have a single nemesis bird that has vexed me.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2018
Although this beauty also lives in the forests of Honduras, Nicaragua, and western Panama, it is most accessible in Costa Rica. A couple of the biggest of bird families are restricted to the Americas. Both can be found in nearly every available habitat, one is infamous for giving birders identification malaise, the other for putting on dazzling natural shows of grit and iridescence.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2012
From 1786, when the British appointed a superintendent over the colony of Scottish and British settlers known as Baymen, until 1981, when it was granted independence, Belize, which was known until 1973 as British Honduras, was a colony of the United Kingdom. When choosing a national bird many countries choose instantly recognizable members of their avifauna which is often a wise idea. After all, if a bird is to be a symbol it should be easily recognized, even when represented abstractly.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
It was easier to get a shot when they were landing: One of the best parts of being with three other bird bloggers is I got to regale them with tales of the trip to Honduras (though I’m not sure that they would agree with that). By the end of our circumnavigation of the West Pond we had totalled 38 species, a decent haul for mid-March and I hadn’t come close to exhausting my store of Honduras anecdotes.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2018
But my experiences in Belize and Honduras give me a good basis in the birds of the region and I have plenty of time to study and learn what to expect with the endemics. In a little less than two weeks my family and I will be enjoying a long weekend on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. While June is not the best time of year to get huge numbers of neotropical migrants it did work out perfectly for us in terms of when we could go and find a really good deal to take advantage of.
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