For an informative overview of all our Northern Central America birding tours, see Northern Central America: Field Guides Tours.

If you are new to tropical birding or just wish to expand your tropical experience with some great birds and birding, our Belize tour is perfect for you. With more than 550 bird species and nearly 70 percent of the country covered in natural vegetation, Belize is a birder's paradise. English is widely spoken and birding destinations are always nearby. It's also only a quick two-hour plane ride from the US. Seems ideal, right? It is.

We'll visit two standout sites that are sure to get your birding juices flowing. The Bird's Eye View Lodge at Crooked Tree sits on the shores of the Northern Lagoon in Belize district. During the dry season when water levels drop, large numbers of water birds concentrate to take advantage of the food supply--from cormorants, herons, egrets, ibis, spoonbills, and Limpkins to even the rare Agami Heron and Jabiru. It is also an attractive drop-in for migrating shorebirds. And we'll search nearby for regional specialties including Yucatan Jay, Yucatan Flycatcher, Yellow-lored Parrot, and Yucatan Woodpecker.

From Crooked Tree we'll travel west into the Maya Mountains to visit another important tropical habitat--broadleaf evergreen forest. From the comfort of Black Rock Lodge, situated along the Macal River near the border of Guatemala, we'll enjoy a diversity of species that includes everything from Blue-crowned and Tody motmots, Gartered, Slaty-tailed, and Black-headed trogons, and Ivory-billed, Tawny-winged, and Olivaceous woodcreepers to Pale-billed, Lineated, and Chestnut-colored woodpeckers, Golden-hooded, Crimson-collared, and Blue-gray tanagers, Red-legged Honeycreeper, Keel-billed Toucan, and Collared Aracari...the list goes on. With luck, we may even find three of the world's scarcest raptors in the Mountain Pine Ridge area--Orange-breasted Falcon, Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle, and Solitary Eagle.

For a quick trip only a couple of hours south of the US, Belize can't be beat!

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