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On the fourth and final day of field trips for the Mesoamerican Birding Festival I was seriously psyched: I was going to a cloud forest!  The cloud forest in Santa Barbara National Park, to be precise, and I had visions of Resplendent Quetzals dancing in my head.  And what birder wouldn’t have visions of a [...]

So after birding our way up the entrance road to Cerro Azul Meambar National Park, having a near-stuck experience with our coaster, and seeing an amazingly cooperative Collared Trogon, all of which is related in the first part of this tale, we left our gang of hardcore birders in the parking lot of the national [...]

For the second morning of the Mesoamerican Birding Festival I signed up for the trip up to Cerro Azul Meambar National Park, a 478 square kilometer forested preserve that rises from and overlooks the Lake Yojoa basin.  I had been torn between signing up for Cerro Azul or for the cloud forest at Santa Barbara [...]