Southern Yucatan – Jungle birds and Yucatan Peninsula’s Specialties

This birding tour offers the experience of birdwatching along the forests south of the Yucatan state, where the vegetation is more humid. We’ll park the car at the very beggining of the trail, where we will start an easy walk birding (slowly walking 2-3 km), the expected species are many tropical flycatchers like the Yellow-olive Flatbill (Tolmomyias sulphurescens) and the Northern Tropical Pewee (Contopus bogotensis), colorful birds like Yucatan Jays (Cyanocorax yucatanicus) and orioles, Orange Oriole (Icterus auratus) and Black-cowled Oriole (Icterus prosthemelas) and many other birds.

Top Birds: Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Canivet's Emerald, Roadside Hawk, Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Black-headed Trogon, Gartered Trogon, Turquoise-browed Motmot, Lesson's Motmot, Lineated Woodpecker, Golden-olive Woodpecker, White-fronted Amazon, Yellow-lored Amazon, Olivaceus Woodcreeper, Rose-throated Becard, Gray-collared Becard, Yellow-olive Flatbill, Greenish Elaenia, Northern Tropical Pewee, Yucatan Flycatcher, Boat-billed Flycatcher, Yucatan Jay, Black Catbird, Scrub Euphonia, Orange Oriole, Gray-throated Chat, Black-headed Saltator and Rose-throated Tanager.

We will pick you up in one of our cars wherever you are staying in Merida at 5:30 am, take you to the birding place and after that return you to your accommodation site (around 12:00 noon). We drive SUVs for the comfort of our clients.

We recommend:

• Walking shoes
• Long sleeves
• Pants
• Hat
• Water

Bird Guides: Luis Trinchan, Ramón Trinchan.