“OUR” Birds…

Most of our tour participants are from North America, so when we are in the tropics in winter, it is not unusual to hear someone exclaim, “that’s one of our birds.” On this recent trip to Belize, however, we had a couple from, “across the Pond.” England to be more precise. They had been to the States on a few occasions, however, not during the best times or in the best places to view neotropical migrants. Most were new to them, and how they enjoyed the many warblers, thrushes, orioles and tanagers that we all look forward to seeing in our local birding hotspots every spring.