Date: 12/4/25 10:32 am From: <byers345...> via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Off topic--trip to Chiapas, Mexico
Hello Tweeters,
A while back I noticed a birding tour to Chiapas, Mexico was being offered. I'd always wanted to visit Chiapas—it's an epicenter of marimba playing, for instance—so Bill and I signed up. We finally did the tour last month and were not disappointed. Aside from the beauty of the area, and the friendliness of everyone we encountered, Chiapas is also close to Guatemala. So Chiapas gets quite a few birds that also occur in Guatemala and farther south. But a number of these birds, particularly those that live at higher altitudes, don't make it farther north in Mexico. This is because of a geographical feature known as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a lowland that extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, preventing the higher altitude birds from moving north.
I had a longish list of birds I was hoping to see in Chiapas. I didn't see them all and we didn't get photographs of all the ones we did see, but the opportunities for taking reasonable photos were fairly good. The link below takes you to the Flickr album with our Chiapas pictures. These are mostly birds with a sprinkling of other subjects.
