Mexico City Birding Tours
The Center of Mexico offers a great diversity of Birding options, from a urban park experience to exploring the outskirts and searching for unique local birds.
Explore the most common tour options for a day tour.
Help us create the best experience for you and your group.
Mexico City may be combined with other areas, like visiting the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuaries or expeditions in Veracruz, Puebla, Guerrero and more...
One day tours
Some of the most common options for a full day or half day, this can also be combined into multi-day trips.
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Birding with no boundaries
Explore the neighbourig states, without spending hours driving, we can find other interesting habitats with an amazing bird diversity.
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The Endemic Search
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320 USD Full day (12 horus)
240 USD Half day
Places to visit: Tepoztlán, Tres Marías, Parres and Natual areas in the city.
Final route can be different, we always adapt to the client targets and interest.
Price includes: Transportation (from your hotel and back), guiding, gasoline, tolls, entrance to sites and water. Price per group 1 to 3 persons. No meals included.
From the mountains in Mexico City at near 10,000 ft, to less than 5,000 in Morelos State, we can find a great change in habitat and almost complete shift in bird diversity. That is why this birding route is so interesting and good for a lot of endemic birds, both from montane ecosistems and the tropical decidous forest.
Endemic birds in our birding route: Sierra Madre Sparrow, Strickland's Woodpecker, Transvolcanic Jay, Green-striped Brushfinch, Hooded Yellowthroat, Rufous-capped Brushfinch, Russet Nightingale-Thrush, Gray-barred Wren, Golden Vireo, White-striped Woodcreeper, Red Warbler, Blue Mockingbird, Bumblebee Hummingbird, Black-backed Oriole, Black-polled Yellowthroat, Black-chested Sparrow, Banded Quail, Happy Wren, Golden-crowned Emerald, Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater, Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow, Dusky Hummingbird and more.
Other endemics are also posible but may require special effort and therefore more time or more specialized route, check out Multi-day options or contact us so we can design the best route for you. Endemics like: White-naped Swift, Long-tailed Wood-Partridge, Slaty Vireo, Pileated Flycatcher, Gray-breasted Woodpecker, Ocellated Thrasher and more.
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Wild CDMX Birding
Mexico City Habitat Mix
Places to visit: Bosque de Tlalpan, San Nicolás Totlapan, Ecological Park of Xochimilco, Urban Parks in the city. Final route can be different, we always adapt to the client targets and interest.
280 USD Full day (12 horus)
200 USD Half day
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Price includes: Transportation (from your hotel and back), guiding, gasoline, tolls, entrance to sites and water. Price per group 1 to 3 persons. No meals included.
Mexico City hosts several habitats that combined are home to more then 300 species of birds, from lush forests that cover the mountains surrouding the city, to scrublands and wetlands, each with a different biodiversity. In this tour we visit several parks and natural areas, trying to scout the main habitats and find as many birds as possible.
Possible birds in our birding route, endemics like: Green-striped Brushfinch, Hooded Yellowthroat, Rufous-capped Brushfinch, Russet Nightingale-Thrush, Gray-barred Wren, Golden Vireo, White-striped Woodcreeper, Red Warbler, Blue Mockingbird, Black-backed Oriole, Black-polled Yellowthroat, Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow and more. Other interesting birds: Olive Warbler, Mexican Chickadee, Gray-Silky Flycatcher, White-eared Hummingbird, Hooded Grosbeak, Rivoli's Hummingbird and a lot more.
Other endemics are also posible but may require special effort and therefore more time or more specialized route, check out the Endemic Search or contact us so we can design the best route for you. Endemics like: Sierra Madre Sparrow, Strickland's Woodpecker, White-naped Swift, Long-tailed Wood-Partridge, Ocellated Thrasher and more.
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Urban Park Birding
Quick & Easy
140 USD Half day (4 - 6 horus)
Best for a half day
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Places to visit: Chapultepec, Bosque de Tlalpan, Botanical Garden, Bosque de Aragón, Ecological Park of Xochimilco, and other Urban Parks in the city.
Price includes: Transportation (from your hotel and back), guiding, gasoline, tolls, entrance to sites and water. Price per group 1 to 3 persons. No meals included.
Mexico City offers a great diversity of green areas, from small parks with canals to complete National Parks within the city. Choose a birding spot in the city and explore it with a local expert.
Possible birds in our birding route, endemics like: Hooded Yellowthroat, Rufous-capped Brushfinch, Rufous-backed Robin, Red Warbler, Blue Mockingbird, Black-backed Oriole, Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow and more. Other interesting birds: Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer, Gray-Silky Flycatcher, White-eared Hummingbird, Hooded Grosbeak, Rivoli's Hummingbird and a lot more.
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Build your experience
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Every tour is adaptable and costumized. Answering the following will help us plan:
Knowing which areas have you birded before and what birds you are looking for, is really helpful to plan the best locations to visit.
Despite not every birder being very focused on a life list, we always try to offer a unique experience and show our local birds.
There are many ways to do birding and we are here to help you arrange the type of experience you want, whether it is seeking target birds, casual birding, photography, naturalist, birds and food, family birding, other or a combination.
You can check out some of the most common tours in this page or if you want a more specific route, please contact us and share this information (1. Time you want to spend and travel preferences, 2. Target birds and/or which other areas of Mexico you have visited, and 3. Type of experience you seek.
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eBird Trip Reports
One-day Tours
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Multi-day adventure
Half day
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Please note: Some of the birds in this trip reports may have been only heard, but of course we try to see all the birds possible during our tours. Also, some birds may be elusive, others are eaiser to find during certain times of the year, so we can't asure finding the targets, but again, we try our best to find every target bird.
Multi-day expeditions
Extend your visit to the center of Mexico into other areas, we organize all kinds of adventures in and out the city.
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Exploring the Coasts
East or west, tropical treasure awaits
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Monarchs & Birds
From December to February
One of the most amazing natural phenomenon in Mexico, ocurrs just a few hours from Mexico City, good for combining with great birding.
