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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Adding extra days before arriving at the Lodge at Pico Bonito on our Highlands & Copán Ruins pre-tour allows us to add up
to 200 species to the entire Honduras experience! We’ll begin at a simple b
ut comfortable inn near the entrance of La Tigra National Park. Relatively
easy, open trails make for a great birding experience here, as does access
to bromeliad-laden cloud forest and pine-oak woodland. Resplendent Quetzal,
for example, is quite likely to grace us with its presence at the expansiv
e La Tigra, the first national park established in Honduras. Singing Quail,
Wine-throated Hummingbird, Azure-crowned Hummingbird, Bushy-crested Jay, B
lue-and-white Mockingbird and Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush are just a fe
w other possibilities. It’s amazing to think all of this natural splendor l
ies only 30 minutes from our arrival airport in the capital city of Tegucig
alpa! We’ll spend our next two nights at the Panacam Lodge, shrouded in lus
h cloud forest. In the Panacam lowlands, we‘ll seek Prevost’s Ground-Sparro
w and the black velvet Passerini’s Tanager, with its intensely scarlet rump
. Birding near Lake Yojoa, bordered by the impressively steep mountains of
Cerro Azul National Park, may produce the seldom seen Keel-billed and Tody
Motmots, the most occult members of their tribe. Black-crested Coquette and
Spectacled Foliage-Gleaner are two other charismatic species we’ll seek. A
fter absorbing a panoply of color at Panacam, we proceed onward to the equa
lly bird-soaked region around the famous Mayan ruins at Copán. Occupied for
more than two thousand years, from 5th to 9th centuries A.D., Copán was th
e capital city of a major Classic period kingdom. Images of the Scarlet Mac
aw are carved into stone throughout the complex, and efforts are underway t
o reintroduce this breathtaking species into the area. Featuring a well-pre
served acropolis, ballcourt, hieroglyphic stairway, and impressive portrait
stelae, a tour of this Mayan site will provide a foundation to understandi
ng both the avifauna and the human culture of present-day Honduras.
Leader: John Yerger
Cost of our Honduras: The Lod
ge at Pico Bonito tour includes all meals and accommodations, all entra
nce fees, and all transportation beginning and ending in San Pedro Sula—$269
5
.
Cost of the Honduras: Highlands & Copán Ruins pre-tour inc
ludes all meals and accommodations, all entrance fees, and all transportati
on beginning and ending in Tegucigalpa and ending in San Pedro Sula—
$2395.
Photo: Spectacled Owl
Photo by: John Yerger
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