Photo Galleries: El Triunfo 2010 Brian Gibbons

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El Triunfo

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Sumidero Canyon is a great way to introduce birders to the amazing and varied avifauna of Chiapas. Despite the wind, we found Russet-crowned Motmot just inside the gate. The endemic Red-breasted Chat was next, swinging his tail and singing from the thickets of the thorn forest at the lowest elevations of the national park. Our next stop produced the large White-throated Magpie-Jay and the tiny Canivet's Emerald and White-lored Gnatcatcher. A cooperative male Varied Bunting sat for scope v... Read More