Martsam Travel

Alternative Tourism & Adventure



Bird watching Guatemala


The project Bird Watching Guatemala is an encounter with the wonderful world of birds of Guatemala, involving rural communities, national parks, private reserves and Martsam Tour and Travel as the operator in the circuits and destinations that are blended to take you to the fascinating world of Birds of Guatemala.


Taking into consideration the privileged natural and cultural environment that Guatemala has like 19 ecosystems, 300 microclimates, more than 37 volcanoes, rivers, lakes and beaches that are united in our ethnic diversity forming a destination of mystical magic and adventure.


Biological diversity has enabled Guatemala to stand among the 25 countries with the most variety of natural resources in the world. Millions of species living in its varied ecosystems, more than 700 species of birds, mammals like the jaguar, tapir and a variety of reptiles and insects.

Our programs are developed for sustainable tourism on the basis of our economic policies, social and environmental support to the communities within the reserves and eco-tourism projects becoming an alternative which contributes to slow down the deterioration of our natural and cultural resources.


Our destinations for bird watching are manifested as a journey through different ecosystems and multicolored communities, developed to ensure your complete satisfaction.


The project was born with the merge of two leading companies in Guatemala, Martsam Tour & Travel a well recognized Guatemalan Tour Operator founded in 1994 whose social economic and environmental policies have earned the privilege of being certified with the Green Deal Seal, and sign the agreements of best practices and sustainability with Rain forest Alliance.


By its own means, Otus a company dedicated to biological research of the natural resources of Guatemala for the process of the design of protected areas.


It has also conducted expeditions for The Nature Conservancy, research for the National Council of Protected Areas and defenders of nature among others it has developed projects to train communitarian guides in bird watching and environmental interpretation, localization and monitoring of endemic species threatened or symbolic.


Taking into consideration our unified experience and our proved experience our tours have a high scientific content, and our guides are biologists or naturalists immersed in the field of research and conservation by ensuring the quality of our services and creating unique experiences.




www.birdwatchingguatemala.com is a registered trademark of Martsam Tour & Travel Copyright® 2,008
www.birdwatchingguatemala.com
www.martsam.com

Comments

Dale Forbes said…
no more blog posts?

I love Guate and would love to hear more of what you are up to...

Happy birding
Dale
http://alpinebirds.blogspot.com
May 4, 2009 at 7:59 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A trip looking for motmot species

Image
A trip looking for motmot species by  L Some days ago I was traveling with some colleagues in the Guatemalan thorn forest and we had a lucky day. We got pictures from the Russet-crowned motmot (which was a lifer for one of us) and we got pictures of many cuculidae from the country and of course we got a good game of bird data to our research. Well, we started to dream the ideal schedule to watch all the motmot species in the country. There are nine motmot species and more of them are easy to watch in Guatemala. For those who are not familiarized with motmots they have the unique characteristic to develop a racket-like rectris feathers. This family can be watched only in America and they originated in Mesoamerica in some recent point no more than 30 million years. Turquoise-browed Motmot tail. All motmot tail feathers have different blue tones. Early in the 20 century there was scientific observations which wrongly lead to the conclusion that motmots work out in sha
Read more

Birding around Flores, Peten

Image
Peten Itza Lake Photo by Maynor Ovando Flores is the capital of the northernmost department of Guatemala, Peten. If you travel to visit any Maya city like Tikal or Yaxhá, you can’t miss this small and beautiful town. Flores is an island, bordered by Petén Itzá Lake and there’s a lot of options to take a tour on the lake or have a ride in a car to visit neighbor towns. Last Wednesday I decided to go birding around Flores Island, so I tried to have the two sides of the coin birding in water and land. I started in a boat at 6:00 am to look for wading birds for 3 hours, this is my bird list: Pied-billed Greebe Neotropic Cormorant Northern Jacana Purple Gallinule Limpkin Green Heron Little Blue Heron Ringed Kingfisher Snail Kite Mangrove Swallow Great-tailed Grackle Laughing Gull Amazon Kingfisher Great Egret Bat Falcon Social Flycatcher Rock Dove Common Moorhen Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Olive-throated Parakeet Yellow-throated Euphonia Blue-gray Tanager Juvenile Little Blue Heron and No
Read more