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Birdwatching Yucatan endemic birds

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Birdwatching Yucatan endemic birds, 3 days expedition by the hand of local birding experts, discover the main birding spots in the Mayan jungle, night Birding, las Coloradas, Valladolid, and much more!

Yucatan peninsula is one of the most interesting places for birdwatching in Mexico, on winter birds from North America visit the area, plus the tropical and the exclusive endemic birds of Yucatan.

Discover more than 400 bird species!

Places to visity

  • Ruta de los Cenotes.
  • Rio Lagartos.
  • Valladolid Yucatan.
  • Coba.

Tour details

  • Duration 3 days.
  • Meeting point near your hotel location.
  • Available all year round.
  • Shared tour service.

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Includes

  • Personalize attention
  • Specialized guide
  • Soft drinks & water
  • Brunch
  • transportation.
  • Entrances

Not includes

  • Persona expenses
  • Tips

Restrictions

  • No wheelchair accessible.
  • No children under 5 years old.
  • Not recommended for pregnant women.

Recommended to bring

  • Biodegradable sunblock
  • Hat, long sleeve shirt & sunglasses
  • Swimsuit 
  • Cash 

Trip itinerary

Day 1: Birding at la ruta de los cenotes.

We Will visit a Ruta de Los Cenotes to try to find some endemic birds of la penĂ­nsula the Yucatan to begin the search for the endemic birds, in the secondary forest and High forest.

  • 6:00 am pick you up in hotel.
  • 7:00 am birding.
  • 11:00 am brunch.
  • 11:30 am birding.
  • 1:30 pm  travel to Valladolid.
  • 04:00pm check in hotel Valladolid.

Day 2: Birding at Las coloradas

Time for another bird-watching hunting inside Yucatan visiting the Pink pools for flamingos and more endemic birds of Yucatan.

  • 5:00 am pick up.
  • 7:00 am arriving in las Coloradas for birding.
  • 10:00 am brunch.
  • 11:00 am birding.
  • 12:30 pm departure to back in Valladolid.
  • 03:00pm  arrival to Valladolid.
  • 05:00 pm pick up for night birding.

Day 3: bird watching at coba.

Arriving at the lagoon of Coba to looking for more of the endemic Yucatan birds.

  • 5:00 am pick up.
  • 6:00 am arriving in Coba and birding.
  • 10:30 am brunch in Coba.
  • 11:30 pm departure at the hotel.
  • 01:00 pm  Arrival at your hotel.

This itinerary can be modified depending on the hotel and birdwatcher’s needs, we can pick them up in the airport and drop them off at the airport, but we don’t guarantee to see all the endemic birds are wildlife.

Includes

  • Continental breakfast.
  • Professional tour guide.
  • Entrances fees.
  • Private transportation.
  • Local brunch.
  • Equipment for night birding.
  • Water and soft drinks.
  • Hotel room in Valladolid in hotel marĂ­a de la luz.

Not incluides

  • Dinner.
  • Personal expenses.
  • Tips.

Birdwatching Trip Price

$ 725 per pax

Minimum for this trip 2 people per booking.

Birdwatching Yucatan endemic birds list

Birds probably to see, list built in Winter.

  • Altamira Oriole
  • American Flamingo
  • American Redstart
  • Bank Swallow
  • Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (mexican)
  • Barn Swallow
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Black Catbird (mexican)
  • Black Skimmer
  • Black Tern
  • Black Vulture
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Black-cowled Oriole
  • Black-headed Saltator
  • Black-headed Trogon
  • Black-necked Stilt
  • Black-throated Bobwhite
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Blue Bunting
  • Blue-black Grassquit
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Boat-billed Flycatcher
  • Brown Jay
  • Brown Pelican
  • Canivet’s Emerald
  • Caspian Tern
  • Cattle Egret
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Chimney Swift
  • Cinnamon Hummingbird
  • Common Gallinule
  • Common Tern
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Crested Caracara
  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Eye-ringed Flatbill
  • Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
  • Forster’s Tern
  • Gartered Trogon
  • Glossy Ibis
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  • Golden-olive Woodpecker
  • Gray Catbird
  • Gray Hawk
  • Gray-breasted Martin
  • Gray-throated Chat
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Green Heron
  • Green Jay
  • Green-backed Sparrow
  • Green-breasted Mango
  • Groove-billed Ani
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Hooded Warbler
  • Keel-billed Toucan
  • Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  • Laughing Falcon
  • Laughing Gull
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Least Tern
  • Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Lesson’s Motmot
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Long-billed Gnatwren
  • Magnificent Frigatebird
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Mangrove Swallow
  • Mangrove Vireo
  • Masked Tityra
  • Melodious Blackbird
  • Merlin
  • Mexican Sheartail (mexican bird)
  • Morelet’s Seedeater
  • Neotropic Cormorant
  • Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
  • Northern Bentbill
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Northern Jacana
  • Northern Parula
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow (ridways)
  • Northern Tropical Pewee
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Olive-throated Parakeet
  • Orange Oriole
  • Orange-crowned Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Philadelphia Vireo
  • Plain Chachalaca
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Purple Martin
  • Red-billed Pigeon
  • Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
  • Reddish Egret
  • Red-legged Honeycreeper
  • Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
  • Roseate Spoonbill
  • Rose-throated Becard
  • Rose-throated Tanager
  • Royal Tern
  • Ruddy Ground Dove
  • Rufous-browed Peppershrike
  • Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Scrub Euphonia
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Snowy Egret
  • Social Flycatcher
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Spot-breasted Wren
  • Squirrel Cuckoo
  • Tennessee Warbler
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Tropical Mockingbird
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Turquoise-browed Motmot
  • Vaux’s Swift
  • Wedge-tailed Sabrewing
  • White Ibis
  • White-bellied Emerald
  • White-eyed Vireo
  • White-fronted Parrot
  • White-tailed Hawk
  • White-winged Dove (mexican)
  • Wood Stork
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
  • Yellow-faced Grassquit
  • Yellow-lored Parrot
  • Yellow-olive Flycatcher
  • Yellow-tailed Oriole
  • Yellow-throated Euphonia
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Warbler
  • Yucatan Flycatcher
  • Yucatan Jay
  • Yucatan Nightjar
  • Yucatan Poorwill
  • yucatan gnacther
  • Yucatan Vireo
  • Yucatan Woodpecker
  • Yucatan Rough-winged Swallow
  • Yucatan Wren
  • Zone-tailed Hawk

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