1.Discover the panoramic view of the worlds most concentrated migration of "birds of prey".
2.The Broad-winged hawks.......(in a peak season two million three hundred and eighty-nine thousand were counted.)
3.The Mississippi kites.... witness grace in flight. 306,274 Mississippi kites counted in one migration season.
4.Discover the ancient cultures of Veracruz.....a trip to the world famous Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa Veracruz.
5.the Swainson's Hawks....(over one million Swainson's hawks counted in one fall migration)
6.The accipiters.......witness hundreds of Sharp-shinned hawks and Cooper's hawks in migration
8.the non raptor migration spectacle....hundreds and thousands of migrating american white pelicans, wood storks, anhinga, scissor-tailed flycatchers, white-winged doves and white-collared swifts....and more species
9.the falcons.....Peregrine, American Kestrel, Merlins, Bat falcon, Aplomado Falcon.
10.the Ospreys
11.Northern Harriers
12.Observe the resident raptors........Short-tailed hawks, Zone-tailed hawks, Gray hawks, Great Black Hawk, Northern Caracara, Aplomado falcons, Hook-billed kites
13.Good general birding (in the mornings, 200 species possible)
14.Learn and gain an appreciation of the bird of prey migrations
15.Turkey vultures...... 2,677,000 seen in one season....
Treat yourself in 2010 to what may be the WORLD'S greatest HAWKWATCH!
For the fall 2010 schedule contact:
David McCauley
917-957-8267
hawkwatch@gmail.com
or Simon Thompson
Ventures Birding Tours
Travel@Birdventures.com
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