PO Box 9021, Wilmington, DE 19809, USAE-mail: font@focusonnature.com
Phone: Toll-free in USA 1-800-721-9986
or 302/529-1876
Website: www.focusonnature.com
PO Box 9021, Wilmington, DE 19809, USA
E-mail: font@focusonnature.com
Phone: Toll-free in USA 1-800-721-9986
or 302/529-1876
Website: www.focusonnature.com
Focus On Nature Tours
in Central America
and Mexico
in 2012
and
2013
for Birds,
Butterflies, Mammals,
& other Nature
including Marine-Life in
Coral Reefs
and otherwise
For more than 20 years, Focus On Nature Tours has conducted birding & nature tours in Central America. During that time, there have been 30 tours in Costa Rica, 16 in Guatemala, 9 in Panama (5 of them in the Chiriqui highlands), 11 in Mexico, 3 in Honduras, and 3 in Belize. Our Central American tours scheduled for 2012 & 2013 include those in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama. Other FONT tours have been to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. And to Sonora, in northern Mexico, in conjunction with tours in Arizona, for birds, butterflies, mammals, & other nature. In 2012 & 2013, we look forward to our tour scheduled for Belize, for birds, butterflies, mammals, and other nature. Over the years, there have been 30 FONT birding & nature tours in Costa Rica, to an assortment of habitats in both the northern & southern parts of the country, usually to places less-populated by people but more so by birds. In 2012, we'll do again, as we have in the past, a summer tour to Costa Rica, when teachers and others are able to go, who otherwise might not, in addition to our tours in northern & southern Costa Rica in March 2012. Our Panama Tour scheduled in 2012 for December will include places in the Canal Basin that are renowned for birds & other nature, including the famous Pipeline Road. Our Guatemala Tours include the highlands, where Quetzals and Mayas live today, and the lowlands in the Peten Region, where at Tikal, Mayans lived in the past. At the end of 2012, once again our the annual FONT Holiday Tour will be to Guatemala. You may wish to read an article relating our Dec '06/Jan '07 Guatemala Holiday Tour, that was later in a Washington DC newspaper, having been written by one of the tour participants: JAN 2007 GUATEMALA TOUR NEWSPAPER ARTICLE And you may wish to see a gallery of photos taken during that tour: JAN 2007 GUATEMALA TOUR PHOTOS There is a FONT publication available listing the over 900 species of birds that have been found during our Central American tours, noting where and when they have been found, along with information pertaining to subspecies, and local Spanish and Mayan names. Let us know if you'd like a copy. Also listed are Central American mammals & other wildlife, and there's another publication listing over 1200 species of Central American butterflies. Links to Itineraries for FONT Central American birding tours follow. As indicated, some of these tours can be done in combination. |
Above:
The Collared Whitestart,
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Itineraries in 2012 & 2013 (with prices)
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CR-1) Mar 9-17, '12 Northern COSTA RICA a Birding & Nature Tour including a rainforest, a boat-trip along a tropical river, a volcano, and the Pacific coast. (can be combined with tour CR-2 in southern COSTA RICA (tour filled) 
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Southern (can be combined
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(Tour
GU-1)
(A two-part tour,
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(including
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(Tour
PN-4)
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(Tour
PN-5)
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(Tour
GU-2)
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(Tour
HN-1) Jan 5-15, '13
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(Tour
BZ-1)
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BIRD-LISTS & PHOTO GALLERIESCentral America Part 1
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OTHER WILDLIFE
Marine
Life of Mexico & Belize
Amphibians
& Reptiles of Mexico Amphibians
& Reptiles
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Narratives relating
to
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Highlights from some in BELIZE
in
BELIZE in the
YUCATAN in Sonora, MEXICO in Sonora, Mexico
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Orange-breasted Falcon,
as seen on Tikal temple,
during 2 FONT tours in Guatemala in 2002,
and then again during tours in 2003, 2004,
2006, 2007, 2008, & 2009.
(Photograph by Alan Brady.)
Above: The Temples at Tikal in the Peten Jungle,
where we bird during our Guatemala tours.
Below: A drawing of Tikal by Charles Gambill,
following a previous FONT tour there, showing
Ocellated Turkey, Bat Falcon, and Tody Motmot.
(Charles, or "Buddy", who was one of our favorite tour participants,
unfortunately died suddenly during the summer of 2001.
He did a number of line drawings for FONT - in addition to Tikal,
also depicting the Galapagos, the Dominican Republic, and other places
where he traveled with us.)
