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So there I was, back in one of my favorite countries in the world. A few regrettable travel malfunctions kept me from attending the conference portion of the Guatemala International Birding Encounter program at Finca El Pilar so my adventure began in earnest the next morning at Cerro Alux. This was a fitting inception point [...]

So there I was in Guatemala, where the people are good looking and the coffee is strong. The highlands birding of the previous evening had only made me hungry for more, so an international contingent including Mike Freiberg, Brian Bland of Sunbird Tours, and Tim Appleton of British Birdfair fame convened before daybreak. We were [...]