DATE TIME ACTIVITY DETAILS Pick up participants at Puerto 13:00-14:00 Meet at international arrivals area Vallarta airport Coordinate guest´s arrival times and try to make only one pick 14:30 Travel to San Pancho up for all. 50 minute drive to San Pancho. Check in at Hotel Casa San 15:30 https://www.casasanpancho.com Pancho San Pancho has a sunset over the ocean all year round. The Afternoon birding at the San estuary is a local hotspot with many species of egrets, gulls, 16:00 Pancho estuary shorebirds, as well as Sinaloa Crow and other resident and Saturday, March 30 migratory species. 19:00 Maria's Rstaurant Overnight at Hotel casa San Getting some good sleep is the best way to recharge for a next 21:00 Pancho day full of birding adventures! Leave early to Punta de Mita Cerro del Mono: has a combination of low and mid-height area to bird tropical semideciduous forest. Potential species include: Black-throated deciduous forest then board 6:00 Magpie Jay, Squirrel Cuckoo, Citreoline Trogon, Elegant boat to Islas Marietas Trogon, Russet-crowned Motmot, Rufous-bellied Chachalacas National Park for marine and many other landbird species. birds 8:30 Breakfast in the field From Corral del Risco (Punta de Mita) there is a 30 min boat ride to the Marietas Islands, we might see humback whales, Birding at Marietas Islands manta rays or other marine life. Potential birds: Blue-footed 9:00 National Park and Brown Boobies, Heerman's Gull, Elegant and Royal Terns, Red-billed Tropicbird, Black-vented Shearwater, Leach´s and Black-storm Petrels, among others. 12:00 Lunch at Km 5 restaurant Half hour drive back to San Pancho and the hotel to get some 13:00 Break at Casa San Pancho. rest. Sunday, March 31 Birding the trail to the polo fields in conservation area doing a loop around the golf course area. Species include Bat Falcon; Birding at San Pancho 15:00 Mexican Parrotlets, Orange-fronted Parrakeeets, Pale-billed, location Lineated and Golden-cheeked Woodpeckers; Painted, Varied, Lazuli and Blue Buntings, etc. This is the most famous Taco restaurant in town. Fresh, hand 19:00 Dinner at Los Arbolitos made tortillas are offered in different styles with various mexican stews including vegetarian options. Short drive to SPBO area. Potential species include: Pauraque, Owling after dinner for those 20:30 Lesser and Common Nighthawk, Mottled Owl, Vermiculated interested Screech-Owl, Leave early to bird-watch in We will do a short drive to San Pancho´s "upriver trail" to look tropical deciduous forest and 6:15 for early morning species such as Colima Pygmy-Owls and riparian vegetation at San Collared Forest-falcon. Pancho/PVR Monday, April 1 Breakfast at Hotel Casa San Breakfast after early morning birdwalk to look for crepuscular 8:00 Pancho species. Birding at mangrove lagoons. A wide variety of resident, Departure to Quelele 8:45 endemic and migrant bird species are possible with over 200 lagoon. 35 min drive recorded at this site. 12:00 Lunch/siesta Luna Luna restaurant in Bucerías Rufous-bellied Chachalaca, Red-billed Pigeon, Golden-crowned Emerald, Citreoline and Elegant Trogon, Pale-billed Monday, April 1 Woodpecker, Nutting's Flycatacher, Black-throated Magpie- 15:00 Birding st El Guamuchil area Jay, Sinaloa and Wrens, Golden Vireo, Orange-breasted Bunting, Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow, Yellow-winged Cacique, etc) Dinner at Bistro Organico 19:00 (Hotel Cielo Rojo) SPBO presentation at Hotel 20:00 Presentation of SPBO´s conservation work. Cielo Rojo Birding en route to and in San Sebastian del Oeste. Target Depart SP (box breakfast) speces include: Military Macaw, Lilac-crowned Parrot, Yellow and drive to San Sebastian Grosbeak, Green Jay, Berylline Hummingbird, Rufous-capped 6:00 del Oeste (2.75 hrs) for Warbler, Red-faced Warbler, Long-tailed Wood-Partridge, birding in TDF-Pine-Oak White-throated Robin, Black-headed Siskin, Red-crowned Ant- transition zone Tanager and many more... Depart San Sebastian del 12:00 Oeste to Mascota for lunch. Lunch at Café Napoles in 13:00 Mascota Depart to Autlan, making Possible birding stop at San Antonio de los Macedo (oak birding stops along the way Tuesday, April 2 14:00 woodland, e.g. Gray-barred Wren) or Union de Tula (TDF, as time allows (almost 3 hr riparian, e.g., Mexican Parrotlet, White-throated Magpie Jay) drive without stops) arrive hotel Estancia Villa 18:30 https://www.estanciavillareal.com/ Real 19:00 dinner at Estancia Villa Real Possible after-dinner trip to look for Eared Poorwill at Los 20:30 Overnight Estancia Villareal Mazos or road to Las Joyas Depart for La Cacoma (box 6:00 breakfast); leave bags with ~1/2 hour drive to first stop reception for pickup later Wednesday, April 3 Orange-breasted Bunting, San Blas Jay, Squirrel Cuckoo, Ferruginuos Pygmy-Owl, Yellow-winged Cacique, Transvolcanic Birding at La Cacoma, Jay, Black-throated and White-throated Magpie-Jays, starting in open country/TDF Mountain Trogon, Sinaloa Wren, Rufous-backed Robin, Golden- and going up in elevation cheeked Woodpecker, White-tipped Dove, Happy Wren, Gray- 6:30 with stops in riparian, oak, breasted Wood-Wren, Mexican Parrolet, Broad-billed and (humid) pine-oak hummingbird, Blue Mockingbird, Singing Qual, Mexican Whip- forests; depart for Autlan by poor-will, Yellow-eyed Junco, Aztec Thrush, Bridled Titmouse, 12 pm Rufous-capped Warbler, Collared Towhee, Green-striped Brushfinch, etc. 13:00 Lunch in Autlan El Caldero Restaurante Wednesday, April 3 wide variety of birds possible en route including Crested Guan, Depart for Las Joyas, Arizona Woodpecker, Elegant and Mountain Trogon, Chestnut- 14:00 stopping at hotel to pick up sided Shrike Vireo, Painted and Slate-throated Redstart, bags, and birding en route Hepatic and Flame-colored Tanager, etc 18:00 Arrive to Las Joyas, check-in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3vTSJLDDQ 19:00 Dinner at Las Joyas Presentation on UdG 20:30 Sarahy Contreras conservation work West Mexican Chachalaca, Long-tailed Wood-Partridge, Singing Quail, Berylline, Bumblebee and Violet-crowned Hummingbird, Mexican Violetear, Spot-fronted Swift, Early morning birding around 7:00 Mountain Trogon, Chestnut-sided Shrike Vireo, Slaty Vireo, the cabins at Las Joyas Grey-breasted Wood-Wren, Blue Mockingbird, Red-headed Tanager, Flame-colored Tanager, Collared Towhee, Green- striped Brushfinch, Rufous-capped Brushfinch, etc. 9:00 Breakfast at Las Joyas Slaty and Dwarf Vireo, Bumblebee Hummingbird, Mexican 10:00 Bird banding at Las Moras Violetear, nightingale thrushes, brushfinches, migrants Lunch at Las Joyas, then 13:00 Thursday, April 4 siesta Afternoon birding (optional) Golden Vireo, Slaty Vireo, Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo, 15:00 around cabins and trails near Crescent-chested Warbler, etc. Las Joyas 19:00 Dinner at Las Joyas Buff-collared Nightjar, Mexican Whip-poor-will, Mottled Owl, 20:30 Owling (optional) etc. Leave early by truck (before Hummingbirds, Bright-rumped Attila, Pine Flycatcher, Chestnut- sunrise) for El Almeal (old sided Shrike-Vireo, Mexican Trogon, Brown-backed Solitaire, burn area, rich with Orange-billed, Russet and Ruddy-capped Nightingale Thrush, 6:00 flowering plants), birding at Aztec Thrush, Golden-browed Warbler, Red and Red-faced El Almeal and along road on Warblers, Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer, mixed-flocks ~5 km walk back to Las Joyas galore... Breakfast in the field 9:00 (courtesy Las Joyas Staff) Friday, April 5 Return to Las Joyas, eat 13:30 lunch, siesta Friday, April 5 Afternoon birding (optional) 15:00 around cabins and trails at Long-tailed Wood-Partridge, etc. (see above) Las Joyas 17:00 Dinner at Las Joyas Buff-collared Nightjar, Mexican Whip-poor-will, Mottled Owl, 21:00 Owling (optional) etc. West Mexican Chachalaca, Long-tailed Wood-Partridge, Singing Quail, Berylline, Bumblebee and Violet-crowned Hummingbird, Mexican Violetear, Spot-fronted Swift, Early morning birding around 6:00 Mountain Trogon, Chestnut-sided Shrike Vireo, Slaty Vireo, the cabins at Las Joyas Grey-breasted Wood-Wren, Blue Mockingbird, Red-headed Tanager, Flame-colored Tanager, Collared Towhee, Green- striped Brushfinch, Rufous-capped Brushfinch, etc. 8:00 breakfast at Las Joyas Depart for Autlan, making 1- 9:00 2 stops for birds along the way 12:00 lunch in Ahuacapan Mexican Duck, migratory waterfowl, waterbirds and Saturday, April 6 depart for Tapalpa (3 hr shorebirds, Curve-billed Thrasher, Eastern Meadowlark, 13:00 drive); stop at wetlands Crested Caracara, White-faced Ibis, Yellow-headed Blackbird, along the way Brewers Blackbird, arrive Hotel La Casona in 18:00 http://www.hotellacasona.com Tapalpa dinner in Tapalpa (TBD) and 19:00 walk around "Pueblo pozole, tacos, o parrilladas o taquiza. Magico" White-tailed Hawk, White-tailed Kite, Buff-breasted Flycatcher, Early morning birding 6:00 Gray Silky-Flycatcher, Hepatic Tanager, Striped Sparrow, plus (optional) in Tapalpa many other resident landbirds and waterbirds 8:00 breakfast at Hotel La Casona Depart for Guadalajara 9:00 Airport (2 hr drive) for 1 pm Sunday, April 7 or later departures Arrive Guadalajara airport for 11:00 1 pm or later departures.