What’s your favourite chook species?
My favourite chook species is the Grey-throated Chat (Granatellus sallaei) an endemic chook of the Yucatan Peninsula.
What’s your identify, and the place do you reside?
My identify is Luis Trinchan, I reside in Merida, the capital of the Yucatan state, in Mexico.
What are the principle areas or places you cowl as a chook information?
My principal space for birding is Merida, however I lead excursions all around the Yucatan Peninsula.
American Flamingo
How lengthy have you ever been a chook information?
I’ve been guiding since 2018.
How did you get into chook guiding?
I obtained into chook guiding when individuals began recommending me as a information to guests from different nations who needed to go birding in Merida, at that time in my life I used to be only a biology scholar who was in love with birds and birding and was simply completely satisfied to take individuals to see the particular birds of this a part of the world.
Turquoise-browed Motmot
What are the elements of being a chook information that you simply like finest? Which elements do you dislike most?
I actually take pleasure in getting individuals to see new birds for his or her life lists and I additionally like attending to know individuals from all around the world and making new birding buddies.
One of many issues I dislike is that typically when on the lookout for a goal chook that doesn’t need to present up, there could be a little little bit of stress or disappointment, however hey, we will’t management nature and typically that’s how it’s.
What are the highest 5-10 birds in your area that you simply assume are essentially the most fascinating for visiting birders?
Yucatan Wren, Mexican Sheartail, Yucatan Gnatcatcher, Yucatan Jay, Orange Oriole, Black-throated Bobwhite, Rose-throated Tanager, Grey-throated Tanager, Ocellated Turkey, Turquoise-browed Motmot, and American Flamingo.
Ocellated Turkey
Are you able to define no less than one typical birdwatching journey in your space? Please briefly describe the places, the important thing birds, and the approximate period of such a visit
We provide completely different sorts of excursions, from half days to multi-day excursions.
An instance of a half-day birding tour designed to see the most important quantity of the Yucatan Peninsula’s endemic birds in a single morning might be like this. We’d begin on a highway that goes via ranches and a dry forest the place we can discover birds just like the Yucatan Jay (Cyanocorax yucatanicus), the Black-throated Bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis), the Orange Oriole (Icterus auratus), Grey-throated Chat (Granatellus sallaei), Yucatan Woodpecker (Melanerpes pygmaeus), Turquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) amongst many different birds. After that, we’d head to the north coast of the Yucatan state on the lookout for specialties just like the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), the Yucatan Wren (Campylorhynchus yucatanicus), the Mexican Sheartail (Doricha eliza) and the Yucatan Gnatcatcher (Polioptila albiventris).
Yucatan Wren
For a multiday tour, we normally begin in Mérida, and from there, we do a circuit wherein we go to many of the Yucatan Peninsula’s high birding locations (Rio Lagartos, Valladolid, Siaan Kaan, Calakmul, and so on.) on the lookout for all the endemic birds and normally ending with an inventory of 200+ species.
What different ideas are you able to give to birders curious about your space?
The very best time to go to the Yucatan Peninsula if you wish to see a lot of species is from November to April, as throughout this time we’ve got many of the migrants plus all the year-round species. In the summertime we don’t have the North American migrants, however we get some birds from South America and lots of the resident birds are just a little bit extra showy due to the breeding season.
Climate may be sizzling and humid however nothing a pair of chilly drinks can’t repair.
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is curious about birding with you, how can they finest contact you?
The easiest way to contact me is thru my e mail: information@yucatanbirdingtours.mx. Customers also can e-book a tour via my web site at: https://yucatanbirdingtours.mx
