Updated December, 2019

Once while staying in Sayulita, Mexico near Puerto Vallarta, I was awakened one morning by the sound of a  big cart, one without any wheels apparently, being dragged down a paved road.

I was told that the noise was a actually a bird, a huge bird, and that one of the reasons it grew so huge was because it didn’t have to migrate (really?)  I thought I’d checked into Jurassic Park. The name of the bird is a Chachalaka (link is to a YouTube video where you can actually hear it). Its song "sounds like broken machinery trying to run.”

Since then, from time to time I have had fantasies about getting just the right hat, a journal, a field guide and a pair of binoculars and living a day as a dodgy birder (I am rather stork-like anyway) once the weather cools a bit in Mazatlán.

As you would expect from a country with such temperate weather, Mexico has stunning birds. With help from Birding Tours of Mexico, my friend Ricardo, and talented birder Greg Lavaty, I’d like to show you some of the most colorful ones in Mexico.

Most beautiful birds in Mexico

And finally our sentimental favorite here in Mazatlán (just when you were beginning to think God didn't have a sense of humor), the Brown Pelican.

 Related links:

A company that does bird watching tours in Mexico.

Ron Parson's blog of the flowers of Central America 

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About the author:

Hola, I am a partner and wrote "If Only I Had a Place" a guide for the aspiring expat seeking to rent luxuriously in Mexico. My third book is “The Mexico Solution: Saving your money, sanity, and quality of life through part-time life in Mexico.”