Mexico Bird Conservation

A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America (by Steve N.G. Howell and Sophie Webb) is the premiere field guide to Mexico’s birds. This isn’t your typical bird guide, filled with over 850 pages of information and color plates. This guide covers all of Mexico and the bordering countries of Belize and Guatemala, and parts of Honduras and Nicaragua.

Over 1,000 birds call Mexico home over the course of the year and the majority of these birds are depicted in the color plates. For anyone traveling or doing research in Mexico, this is the book to have. Eventually, it would be nice to have a “traditional” bird guide - one much like Kaufman’s - that has the information side by side with the bird pictures or drawings. This would vastly improve the ability for amateurs to bird across Mexico.

Of course, an even better source for promoting the birds of Mexico would be an online guide, similar to that found at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.