Itinerary
Day 1: Arrivals - Spread your wings
Welcome to Baja California. Arrive on your own or ask for transfer at extra cost Check in at the designated hotel and spread your wings. In the evening, you will enjoy a welcome dinner and briefing. Every morning, enjoy a fresh brewed coffee - bring your coffee-mug!
Day 2: Enjoy sunrise birding
Early in the morning, catch a beautiful sunrise from sea level, go in search of a gelding yellowthroat (Geotypis bedingii) and many more birds, warblers, sparrows, and waterfowl will be present.
Day 3: In search of desert specialties
This day you will go to a deciduous forest – semi desert area in search of Xantus hummingbird (Xantus xantusii) and gray thrasher (toxostoma scinererum) pyrrhuloxia. In addition, see raptors such as zone tailed hawk, swainson's, or Harris's hawks hosted by a ranchero family.
Day 4: Visit to the reserve in search of three endemics
You will go from sea-level to almost 2000 feet to enjoy the Sierra La Laguna Biosphere Reserve, in search of Cape pygmy owl, san lucas robin, and birds junco along with sub-species such as the acorn woodpecker, narrow fronted, band-tailed pigeon with no band, lazuli and varied bunting, among others.
- Meals: Breakfast and lunch
Day 5: Pelagic boat-birding
This day you will enjoy least and black storm petrels, craveri's murrelet, red-billed tropic birds, pink footed and black-vented shearwaters, mask and nazca bobbies, as well as other interesting birds like south polar skua. Among other marine life you could encounter sea-lions, manta rays, dolphins, or sharks.
Day 6: Birding, desert wetlands, and sea
This day, the highlights will be Hermans gull, endemic yellow-footed gull (larus livens), along with many more gulls and terns such as elegant, royal, Caspian, and fosters. There are more surprises, such as the beautiful mangrove yellow warbler. By the evening, you will have your farewell dinner.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 7: Departure on your own or request at additional cost
Today is departure day, but you are welcome back anytime.
- Note: order of days / activities might or might not change depending upon weather conditions.
Targeted birds:
- Cape / Baja pygmy-owl (glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii)
- San lucas robin (turdus migratorius confinis)
- Bird's junco (junco bairdi)
- Belding's yellowthroat (geotypis bedingii)
- Cassin's vireo (vireo cassiinii lucasanus)
- Xantus hummingbird (xantus xantusii)
- Gray thrasher (toxostoma scinererum)
- Yellow-footed gull (larus livens)
- Yellow mangrove warbler (setophaga petechia castaneiceps)
- Among other 200 birds