Adding extra days before arriving at the Lodge at Pico Bonito on our Adding extra days before arriving at the Lodge at Pico Bonito on our
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
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 exper
ience! We’ll begin at a simple but 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-oa
k woodland. Resplendent Quetzal, for example, is quite likely to grace us w
ith its presence at the expansive La Tigra, the first national park establi
shed in Honduras. Singing Quail, Wine-throated Hummingbird, Azure-crowned H
ummingbird, Bushy-crested Jay, Blue-and-white Mockingbird and Ruddy-capped
Nightingale-Thrush are just a few other possibilities. It’s amazing to thin
k all of this natural splendor lies only 30 minutes from our arrival airpor
t in the capital city of Tegucigalpa! We’ll spend our next two nights at th
e Panacam Lodge, shrouded in lush cloud forest. In the Panacam lowlands, we
‘ll seek Prevost’s Ground-Sparrow 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 s
eldom seen Keel-billed and Tody Motmots, the most occult members of their t
ribe. Black-crested Coquette and Spectacled Foliage-Gleaner are two other c
harismatic species we’ll seek. After absorbing a panoply of color at Panaca
m, we proceed onward to the equally bird-soaked region around the famous Ma
yan ruins at Copán. Occupied for more than two thousand years, from 5th to
9th centuries A.D., Copán was the capital city of a major Classic period ki
ngdom. Images of the Scarlet Macaw are carved into stone throughout the com
plex, and efforts are underway to reintroduce this breathtaking species int
o the area. Featuring a well-preserved acropolis, ballcourt, hieroglyphic s
tairway, and impressive portrait stelae, a tour of this Mayan site will pro
vide a foundation to understanding both the avifauna and the human culture
of present-day Honduras.
Leader:&n bsp;John Yerger
Cost of our Honduras: The Lodge at Pico
Bonito tour includes all meals and accommodations, all entrance fees,
and all transportation beginning and ending in San Pedro Sula— Cost
of the Honduras: Highlands & Copán Ruins pre-tour includes all
meals and accommodations, all entrance fees, and all transportation beginni
ng and ending in Tegucigalpa and ending in San Pedro Sula—$2395 Photo: Spectacled Owl
Photo by: Jo
hn Yerger
