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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MARCH 18, 2011

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.

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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. Why are you creating a field guide to the birds of Honduras?

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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 (..)

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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.

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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. Both are mostly found in very high, moist forests.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Next to me was a copy of “Birds of Central America” with a somewhat longish subtitle “Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama” by Vallely and Dyer from 2018.

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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. PANACAM, an acronym for the full name of the park, is co-managed by the NGO Projecto Aldea Global Honduras. If so, I’ve found the perfect place for you.

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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. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries.

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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. Nonetheless, a birder’s initial experience in Honduras sets him or her on an inexorable course towards the only species currently named for this gem of a country.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Our company is based in Guatemala but also offers tours in Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico. Birding Expeditions is a Guatemalan tour company created to help birders to have an unforgettable experience in the Mayan World. Guatemala has the most reliable places to observe the mythical Horned Guan.

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JUNE 1, 2018

I’m prepping for a big birding bonanza in Honduras (!!!!) 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!

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama make up Central America. Notice that had I not used the Oxford Comma there, you’d be thinking “Costa Rica and Panama” was a country like Trinidad and Tobago. Or Antigua and Barbuda. Or Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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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. Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages. McLarty Vice Chairman John Negroponte was U.S.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Apparently, MIchael Douglas feels the same way, because when he visited the lodge he greatly appreciated seeing the same bird. Who says birding can’t be glamorous?

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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. , It’s unique in two major ways.

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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. / Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 801-1000 sp. – 1 en) (all 7.0 %).

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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. I was well satisfied to travel through farm country this weekend and count the many American Kestrels perched predatorily above the fields. How about you?

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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. On the bright side, birds will be back on the move once summer ends! How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.

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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.

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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.

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JUNE 14, 2018

I’m still recovering from last week’s veritable banquet of birding in Honduras, which I’ll be writing about soon. Don’t give up yet, though: you’ll still find a few surprises out there if you’re willing to look.

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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. I didn’t get too far afield this weekend, but enjoyed the impact adding a nut blend to my feeder has had: Red-bellied Woodpeckers look huge next to the usual sparrows, finches, and chickadees! How about you?

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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. Actually, even those parts of a birding trip can be sweet. Time to plan the next one! Our last stop in the Central Highlands included a phenomenal afternoon at the Zamorano University Biological Reserve of Uyuca.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And Verbena attracts another specialty bird and a regional endemic (from Honduras to Panama), the Snowcap. Around me, White-necked Jacobin bullies were attacking any Crowned Woodnymph , Green Hermit , Violet Sabrewing or Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer that would dare to approach the feeder or the Verbena hedges.

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JULY 31, 2015

Corey had no trouble dragging his family to Honduras, where he’ll surely see more interesting birds than me! Then a flash of sun on a waiting hill, Streams laugh that erst were quiet, The sky smiles down with a dazzling blue. And the woods run mad with riot. I’ll be trying to drag my family on some sort of hike this weekend.

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APRIL 10, 2021

The same goes for Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and other places along their migration routes. Barn Swallows also fly with them and the Chimney Swifts seem to nearly match them in numbers. Yeah, I daresay those birds do pass through Costa Rica in the millions. For birds, there are no borders.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Before arriving in the town of Copan Ruinas, Honduras, on February 27, 2009, I had only ever heard Inca Doves. Their 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.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). © 2018, Princeton University Press D. © 2003 text H.

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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). But we weren’t done yet!

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Wouldn’t you love to be on the lake at Cerro Azul Meambar National Park in Honduras ? Happy Dia de los Muertos! If we all wear green for St. Patrick’s Day and red for Valentine’s Day, why shouldn’t we all dress as zombies on the Day of the Dead? Too close to Halloween, perhaps.

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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.

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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. A quick scan of the text indicated why I had been confused.

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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. All but one of these occur only in the Arctic; three are endangered, and one is now extinct.

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