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Choose
from four different birding tours
In addition
to the beautiful beaches, islands, the historic downtown,
cultural events and sites, the area around Mazatlan offers the traveller
interested in nature and birdwatching an enriching experience. The
area is
characterized by long, white beaches, mangrove-lined brackish water
estuaries (lagoons), tropical deciduous and dry thorn forest and in
the higher elevations pine/oak forests. Each area is unique in the
type of
flora and fauna it is comprised of. For example the tropical deciduous forest
possesses up to 40 % of the flora and fauna found in all of Mexico.
Over 400
hundred species of birds, 35 Mexican endemics and
another 17 Mexican/Central American endemics, are found in the three combined ecosystems. The wealth
of
avifauna here attracted the great ornithologist, Andrew Jackson Grayson who
came to Mazatlan from California during the 1850`s to illustrate the
birds
of the Pacific Slope of California and Mexico. He and his wife lived
in
Mazatlan for 10 years until his death here in 1869. In addition to
his work
in California he completed 156 bird portraits and tried unsuccessfully
during that time to get support from the fledgling Smithsonian Institute
and
the Mexican government to have his work published. Recently however
public
interest has brought his illustrations out of storage and people are
seeing
why he was so rightfully named the" Audubon of the West".
Mazatleco Tours offers day tours to cover the three habitats found around
Mazatlan: The Coastal Lagoon kayak tour; The Foothills of the Sierra
Madre
Tour and the Pine & Oak Forest Tour (Home of the Tufted Jay).
Please click on
the tour you are interested in to view tour specifics.
We also offer overnight trips to the pine/oak forests of the Barranca
Rancho Liebre (home of the Tufted Jay), near the town of El Palmito,
(where
we are working on a conservation project with the local comunity and
several
NGO's) to allow more time for birding up
in the
canyon and a 2 night stay in San Blas, Nayarit.
- We can arrange ground transportation, accommodations
and local bilingual
guides for out of town birding clubs and tours.
- We will
also help you out if all you want is to get pointed in the right
direction with a local bird list in hand.
Please contact us for more information regarding the overnight tours.
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