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My first full day in Guatemala during the Fifth International Birding Encounter started with a stellar trip to Cerro Alux. Following that was a pit stop for coffee and hummingbirds en route to the fabulous Finca El Pilar outside Antigua. This working coffee farm is a perfect example of the power of private landowners to [...]

So there I was in Guatemala, where the living is easy. Our motley crew of American, Guatemalan, and British birders abandoned the sweet pine oak habitat of Cerro Alux for the delights of a lush, deliciously vertical finca outside Antigua. Finca El Pilar cultivates coffee under a biodiverse canopy of dry, deciduous forest. Of course, [...]