• Journey Mexico : Experiences : Bird Watching

Bird Watching

Birdwatching in Mexico is a birdwatchers paradise.  North to south, east to west, the diversity and plenitude of the birds of Mexico has been a draw for experts for years.  In Northern Mexico, we can see wild parrots, Roseate Spoonbills, McCaws and Trogansand to name a few.  Move a little west and across the Sea of Cortez and you find yourself in Osprey territory and in the company of the Baja Peninsula’s family of Cormorants (seabirds).  Further south into the Bay of Banderas and you will be easily surrounded by the cries of the 317 bird species that live along the coast of Puerto Vallarta.  Banderas Bay still harbors some of the last remaining populations of Green Macaws in the world.  On the Gulf Coast, if you time your trip right, you can see twenty species of raptors sail over Veracruz, including turkey vultures, Swainson’s hawks, Mississippi kites, and Kestrels, which are dynamic little falcons. Most of the hawks are broadwings traveling from the eastern United States to wintering areas from Mexico to Brazil.  In Southern Mexico, bird watchers revel in the sitings in El Triunfo in Chiapas, Calakmul in Campeche and Celestun, and Rio Lagartos and the Sian Ka’an in Quintana Roo.