Encounter, close up views of birds from a multitude of tropical bird families—including possible Tinamous, Chachalacas, Guans, Whistling-Ducks, Jacanas, Elegant Quail, Cuckoos, Hummingbirds, Limpkin, Pelicans, Ibises and Spoonbill, Storks, Frigatebirds, Boobies, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Trogons, Caracaras, Parrots, Parakeets and Macaws, Motmots, Woodcreepers, Elaenias, Tyrannulets, Becards and Tityras, Martins, Caciques, Euphonias, etc. — in juxtaposition with some of your feathered friends from home, the Neotropical Migrants — Waterfowl, Shorebirds, Gulls and Terns, Herons and Egrets, Raptors (hawks and falcons), Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Tyrant Flycatchers, Pewees, Kingbirds, Vireos, Jays, Swallows, Gnatcatchers, Wrens, Yellow-breasted Chat, Orioles, Grackles, Wood-Warblers, Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings and more — on their wintering grounds here in the tropics!

Join us to discover the fun and birding magic as you are gently introduced to birding and the region’s rich biodiversity while at the same time being vicariously transported to another place and time in nearby “old

The mountains surrounding the edges of the valley are still richly cloaked in their original vegetation ranging from tropical deciduous forest on their lower to middle slopes to encinal (pine-oak-and juniper woodland) and even coniferous (pine and fir) forest at their highest extremes.

They, especially the Sierra Vallejo — now a government designated Biosphere Reserve — also form an interesting biological barrier for at least three bird species—the Sinaloa Crow (which doesn’t cross into the area) and Rufous-bellied Chachalaca (which does) on the north side of the river, and West Mexican Chachalaca to the south.

The entire area sits at a kind of biological crossroads where the Neotropical and Neartic regions mix, forming a rich paradise for birds and birders from both regions.