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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.

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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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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.

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MARCH 3, 2011

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

It is not strictly endemic as it also occurs in Guatemala and Honduras. The eponymous golden brows stand out like headlights in the gloom of the forest when the bird looks directly at you. The Rufous-capped Warbler has a hard staccato call that I initially mistook for a Rufous-capped Brush-finch.

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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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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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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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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. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – I haven’t made a ton of effort to find one of these. But I did chase one back in 2009 that I dipped on. Ditto for Costa Rica.

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

I haven’t seen him since our trip to Honduras in 2009–pre-Desi! I love watching that, sending them back up into the sky with a kiss on the top of their flat little heads. Delighted to say that as you read this I’ll be hanging with Corey at the Midwest Birding Symposium. And as I write this, I cannot wait to see him!!

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DECEMBER 27, 2014

All woodpeckers are, by default, “cool”; here are some of the other Fonzies that live in Costa Rica: Hoffmann’s Woodpecker : A lot like a Golden-fronted Woodpecker , this beauty ranges from southern Honduras to Costa Rica. A male Hoffmann’s Woodpecker looking for a banana.

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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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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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MARCH 4, 2011

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Ever since I met Julie in Honduras back in 2009 I have wanted to get out birding with her again. The most likely bird would be Fulvous Whistling-Duck which I tried for and dipped on last year thanks to the refuge that was good for them being closed for hunting on the day that I made the attempt. It hasn’t happened.

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MARCH 26, 2012

In fact, prior to my visit to Florida in January for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I had never seen an Anhinga at all save one lousy look in Honduras back in 2009.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

First of all, I am lucky in that I saw actual wild Muscovy Ducks in Honduras in 2009 , so this is not a decision that matters in terms of my life list. It is also on the ABA list, which makes it countable in the ABA area. Why would I even think twice about counting it?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The one case that could have been an actual Turkey was a bird spotted in Honduras, where they may or may not have been, by our friend Christopher Columbus. The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not.

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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. Wishing readers of 10,000 Birds a wonderful 2020!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Although this beauty also lives in the forests of Honduras, Nicaragua, and western Panama, it is most accessible in Costa Rica. In fact, I dare say that pilgrimages to see all of these and other hummingbirds in Costa Rica would be a wonderful, worthwhile way to spend one’s time.

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JANUARY 10, 2015

Quetzal also lives in cloud forests in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Isn’t that a high elevation endemic too? Nope, in addition to Costa Rica and western Panama, the good old R. Nevertheless, despite it refusing to let Mike or Corey see it, Costa Rica is usually a good place to find one.

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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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