Birding Cozumel

Birding Cozumel. It is also a notable center for endemic birds with more than 14 species such as Orange Oriole Black Catbird Black-throated Bobwhite Yellow-lored Parrot Yucatan. This event which was the largest festival to date sought to promote birding as form of sustainable tourism on the island and at the same time sensitizing the island community on the value birds in the islands ecosystem.

Cozumel has a warm humid climate and the main vegetation is coastal mangrove forest tropical deciduous forest and tropical semideciduous. An added bonus is a slew of migrants such as Black-throated Blue Prairie and Cape May Warblers. Cozumel offers a unique mix of these mainland species plus Caribbean birds like Caribbean Elaenia and White-crowned Pigeon.

This tour is also ideal for cruise shippers.

Rich Hoyer The petite Yucatan Woodpecker also sports a relatively short bill and a tuft of yellow feathers above the bill. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 600 AM. A short ferry ride to the island of Cozumel will elicit the endemic Cozumel Emerald Cozumel Vireo Yucatan Vireo and Black Catbird. Rich Hoyer The petite Yucatan Woodpecker also sports a relatively short bill and a tuft of yellow feathers above the bill.