Gone Birding in Veracruz Mexico

Broad-winged hawks on migration (photo by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith via Wikimedia) 29 September 2026, WINGS Veracruz: Migration is a Moving Experience: Day 1, Fly to Veracruz, tour begins at dinner. ==> I’ll be too busy to blog while I’m away and mostly off the grid, so I’ve written all 9 days in advance. Today I’m following the broad-winged hawks’ migration as I fly down the Mississippi watershed to the Texas coast and then south to Mexico. By the time I arrive at the WINGS Mexico: Veracruz birding tour, broad-winged numbers will be at their peak at the Veracruz River of Raptors. WINGS describes the tour: We’ll divide our time between the coastal lowlands [Veracruz], where the local birds will compete for our attention amid the migrants, and the highlands of the Sierra Madre Oriental and Central Volcanic Belt [Xalapa], where coffee fincas grade into cloud forest and then cool fir forests on the higher slopes. map from WINGS Mexico: Veracruz birding tour. Migration is a Moving…