Honduras is birders paradise
We are closer to you
Honduras is a relatively short flight from many US and Canadian cities. Many international carriers including United, American, Delta, Spirit, AeroMexico and Avianca have daily flights to Honduras. For our birdwatching and nature tours, we usually start in San Pedro Sula, airport code SAP.
Don't waste time in long-haul flights come to Honduras and start birding faster.
Virtually no crowds
Honduras is an off-the-beaten path natural paradise, where you can still enjoy birding in vast natural spaces without the crowds. In many of the country's top birding hotspots you can be the only birding party on the trail. The natural spaces are ideal for birdwatching, nature tours and wildlife photography at your own pace.
For up-to-date information on recent sightings visit the country profile on eBIRD HERE.
Diverse ecosystems
Diverse ecosystems
Honduras overall enjoys a tropical climate, but also has very diverse micro-climates including tropical rain forests, pine & oak forests, cloud forests, coastal dune, lakes & rivers, pine savanna, mangroves, and tropical dry forest, which is home to the endemic Honduran Emerald hummingbird.
Best of all, the travel distances between different ecosystems are relatively short. This creates ideal birdwatching opportunities that allow you to visit multiple habitats for a varied bird list.
Honduras Birding Destination
Honduras is a birder's paradise!
Shorts flights from many US cities, passionate birding guides, and diverse ecosystems located at relatively short distances from each other make Honduras a great destination for birding and nature tours. Plan your next birding trip with us!
Sustainable Birding Trips
Your birding trip can make a positive impact
Our goal with each birding and nature tours, is to create a positive social and economic impact in the local communities that we visit; creating economic incentives to protect and conserve the natural spaces. Sustainable Birding! You can read our Policy on Sustainable and Responsible Practices by clicking the button below:
7-day Lake Yojoa and Pico Bonito Birding Trip
Birding Tour Overview
This 7-day birding trip is a nature lover’s dream; as we spend every night of the trip in cozy lodges located inside national parks. Birding opportunities will be at your doorstep, literally!
We spend the first three nights in PANACAM LODGE birding around Lake Yojoa, a region with more than 315 documented species, in areas including the cloud forest of Santa Barbara National Park, Azul Meambar National Park, Los Naranjos Eco-archaeological park, and around El Cajon Dam in search of the endemic Honduran Emerald.
For the remaining three nights we move to the Caribbean coast, staying at THE LODGE & SPA AT PICO BONITO, a birding hotspot with more than 350 documented species, while birding Cuero & Salado Wildlife Refuge, Pico Bonito National Park and the surrounding areas.
We are committed to sustainable tourism practices, and we firmly believe that our nature tours and birdwatching trips should have a positive impact in the communities that we visit; therefore besides your full-time dedicated trip leader, we hire local birding guides in each location that we visit. This gives us up-to-date knowledge on the location, as well as creates job opportunities for locals with an incentive to conserve and protect the natural spaces.
Birding Tour and Trip Dates
We can run this trip as a private birdwatching tour for you at any time. The best time of year for good weather and bird variety is between December and March.
Birds & Coffee
Shade-grown coffee farms are important habitat for Neotropical migratory birds
Coffee farms with tree shade cover in the highlands of Honduras are a very important habitat for Neotropical migratory birds and great places for birdwatching, photography, and nature tours. Many of the birds that you see in North America in the spring and summer will spend their winter in Central and South America. Therefore it is very important for us to protect and conserve their wintering habitats so that they can be healthy and ready for the flight back to their breeding grounds.
Birds & Coffee Trip
Enjoy a leisurely birdwatching tour through the coffee-growing highlands of Honduras. Great birding locations around Lake Yojoa, Santa Barbara National Park, Marcala, El Jilguero Reserve, and Copan.
During the trip we will be birding in tree-shade coffee farms, and in forests and open spaces near the coffee farms. In this slow paced birding tour, you will have a chance to meet coffee farmers to learn about growing, harvesting and processing quality coffee, and of course we will enjoy delicious, high altitude, shade grown coffee!
How can we help migratory birds?
There are many things that we can do to help migratory birds. In our case, creating birding and nature tours that have a positive economic impact in the communities we visit is very important. We also organize events in the coffee growing regions to create awareness for the important link between birds and coffee, and to share the message that a healthy ecosystem for birds is a healthy ecosystem for humans.
What can you do to help migratory birds?
- take a birdwatching trip to the tropics, with a birding tour company committed to sustainable tourism practices. Your birding tour can make a positive impact in the host country.
- buy and drink "good coffee". You might like dark roast or medium roast, maybe full body or subtle acidity, the cup profile of your preferred coffee is your own, but make sure it is Bird-friendly Certified, or at least organic, and sourced from a shade grown coffee farm.
10-day Honduras, cultural & natural highlights
Birding Tour & Trip Overview
This 10-day birdwatching tour highlights the rich cultural & natural diversity of Honduras. We spend the first three nights in the quaint town of Copan Ruinas, near the ancient Mayan sites; a place filled with culture and many birding hotspots nearby. We will have the opportunity to do birding in a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
On Day 4, we will travel to the Lake Yojoa basin, an area of rich biodiversity that is surrounded by national parks, and spend three days birding in tropical rain forests in Azul Meambar National Park, cloud forests in Santa Barbara National Park, tropical dry forests and the lake basin.
For the remaining three nights, we travel to the Caribbean coast, on-route birding the historic Lancetilla Botanical Garden, staying at the Lodge & Spa at Pico Bonito, birding the trails in Pico Bonito National Park and Cuero & Salado Wildlife Refuge.
We are committed to sustainable tourism practices, and we firmly believe that our tours should have a positive impact in the communities that we visit; therefore besides your full-time dedicated, bilingual trip leader, we hire local passionate birding guides in each location. This gives us up-to-date knowledge on the location as well as create job opportunities for locals with an incentive to conserve and protect the natural spaces.
Birding Tour & Trip Dates
We can run this trip as a private birdwatching tour for you at any time. The best time of year for good weather and bird variety is between December and March.