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Long Legs on the Beach

Long Legs on the Beach

Ok, so I may have conned you into reading this with that title…but this is just another article about birding in Zihuatanejo. Most of those long legs belong to a group of egrets and herons, easily found in the canal at Playa Madera, which empties onto the beach, so I’m not too far off. I...

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Birding 101 - Birding in Paradise

Birding 101 – Birding in Paradise

A neighbor asked me the other day, “How did you get started looking at birds?” I have no idea. Growing up in an apartment in Chicago, we knew what pigeons were, we knew that robins arrived in the spring and they ate worms and that there were sparrows. That’s all I can remember. I moved...

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Day Trips – Bird Watching at Playa Larga

Keep an eye out to the right for the vultures that may spiral up on the sun’s new thermals.”   I have never birded in town or in Ixtapa but I do have a very nice day trip to another beach, Playa Larga, to see a dozen and a half different birds. To get there,...

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Bird watching in Zihuatanejo

“The birds are tourists themselves, they breed in the wetlands in the Northwest US and Canada.” I have been watching the birds here in the winter off and on for the past three years and I’d like to share with you what I have seen. We stay up the hill on the La Ropa road...

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