Photo Galleries: Mexico: Barranca del Cobre 2010 Brian Gibbons

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Mexico: Barranca del Cobre

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The sweltering lowlands of Sinaloa, the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the Central Mexican Plateau all hosted a great variety of birds that we endeavored to see on our tour of Copper Canyon. Starting in Parque Sinaloa in a bustling Los Mochis, we found our first western Mexican endemics. The raucous Black-throated Magpie-Jay, squeaky Mexican Parrotlets, Broad-billed and Violet-crowned hummingbirds, Plain-capped Starthroat, and a furtive but Happy Wren were some of the great birds we saw on our ... Read More