Birdwatching Western Mexico

5 Days / 4 nights trip

The western Mexico offers a great diversity of habitats and wildlife.  On this trip you’ll be able to visit mangroves, coastal lagoons, pine and oak forests on the Sierra Madre, low and medium semideciduos jungles, beaches.  The variety of habitats is so great that you can find up to 455 different species of birds and 30 Mexican endemics, among them the famous Military Macaw, the Orange-fronted Parakeet, the Citreoline Trogons, Magpie Jays, Jacanas, Warblers, Acorn woodpeckers, San Blas Jays, Russet-crowned motmot, Herons & Egrets, Blue-Footed Boobies, Brown Boobies and Magnificent Frigate birds, just to mention a few.

Itinerary

• Day 1 - Meet at 7:00 am Ecotours down town office, transfer to Las Juntas y Los Veranos,   birding thru a semideciduos tropical forest, visit the botanical gardens, Lunch Altamira. Continue to Rancho primavera, after noon birding in Rancho Primavera Dinner in El Tuito Town, over night.

• Day 2 - Morning birding El Tuito, and birding around Rancho Primavera, travel to Cajon de Peñas dam, for birding around the lake.  Back to Rancho Primavera.

• Day 3 - Drive to San Blas . Afternoon Boat trip to La Tovara mangroves (inland). This is an excellent area to take photographs of wadding birds: Bare-throated Tiger-Herons, Boat-Billed Herons, Muskovy, Black Bellied and Fluvous Whistling- Ducks; some raptors such as Crane Hawk and Laughing Falcon; Mangroove Cuckoo, Mangroove Vireo and Mangroove Warbler.  Overnight in San Blas.

• Day 4 - Morning birding at La Bajada road, this is a coffee growing area at 200 m elevation. The tall trees host a wide variety of mexican specialities: Crested Quan, Ruddy Quail-Dove, Colima Pigmy-Owl, Mexican Hermit, Mexican Woodnynph, Gray Crowned Woodpecker, Brown-backed Solitaire, Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow, Yellow Grosbeak and Red-Crowned Ant Tanager.  Overnight in San Blas.

• Day 5 - Travel to Mirador del Águila Military Macaws, Black-throated Magpie-Jays, Cerro de San Juan, Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow, Bumblebee Hummingbird, Mexican Woodnymph.  Back to Puerto Vallarta, this day you can take a late flight or choose an extra day to visit Puerto Vallarta.

• Day 6 - Optional

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