Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico
December 2014

A really tremendous trip to southern Mexico (our second visit to the country), which produced a fantastic range of endemics (including the fabulous Rosita's Bunting as seen above, Nava's Wren, Sumichrast's Sparrow, Pink-headed Warbler, Unicolored and Dwarf Jays), wintering Nearctic migrants, and even some great seabirds on a last-day pelagic on the Pacific - which even featured Humpback Whales!

For a full, blow-by-blow roundup, click here

Zapotec art, Monte Alban
Zapotec art, Monte Alban
Monte Alban
Pileated Flycatcher
Curve-billed Thrasher
Bridled Sparrow
Cumbre de San Felipe
The Atlantic escarpment
Double Bass fern
At the Sumichrast's Wren site
Orange-breasted Bunting
Striped Sparrow
White-throated Magpie-jay
White-throated Magpie-jay
Black Vulture
Banded Wren
Turkey Vulture
Roseate Spoonbill
Nava's Wren
Isthmus wind farm
Colima Pygmy-owl
At Monte Alban
Sumichrast's Sparrow
Coati
Unknown!
Boucard's Wren
Epiphyte-laden forest
Black Hawk-eagle
Simon and Eric
Tropical Gnatcatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Lesser Ground Cuckoo
Bumblebee Hummingbird
Elegant Tern
Laughing Gull
Pomarine Skua
Humpback Whale
Humpback Whale
Magnificent Frigatebird
Brown Booby
Green Turtle
Townsend's Shearwater
Us in the forest
Us at Sumidero Canyon