Feathers Eco-Birding Tours

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About Us:

Gilberto Flores-Walter – Feathers Birding – Western Highlights Tour – Blue Sky Wildlife

Feathers Eco-Birding Tours is a tour operator based in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras. We offer secure custom worry-free tours led by certified experienced guides. We cater to all your needs from the moment you arrive in Honduras, so you can have a great journey on your visit to our beautiful country.

Honduras has nearly 800 registered bird species at this time, including resident and neotropical migratory species. Honduras is located in the heart of the Central American Isthmus. Due to its location and distinctive geographical features, the country acts as a meeting point between North America and South America. 80% of the country is mountainous and has more protected areas than any other country in Central America.

Feathers Eco-Birding Tours, promotes bird-based tourism in an effort to simultaneously achieve biodiversity conservation and local community development. Birdwatching and traveling with our company is certainly a way of seeing all sides of Honduras, as we go off the beaten path to find birds of many diverse ecosystems and habitats.

We are members of the Honduran Ornithological Association (ASHO) and the Private Natural Reserves Network (REHNAP), they promote and contribute to Honduras’ wildlife and habitat conservation.

Tours:

Lake Yojoa – Laguna de Los Lagartos

Honduras 7 Days

Starting From USD 2,180 / per person

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Enchanted South & Central Highlands

Honduras 11 Days

Starting From USD 3,100 / per person

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Caribbean Experience

Honduras 7 Days

Starting From USD 2,470 / per person

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Western Highlights

4.78based on 3 reviews

Honduras 10 Days

Starting From USD 2,875 / per person

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Wildlife:

Honduran Emerald

Country Endemic. The Amazilia luciae is an endangered hummingbird with restricted distribution, mostly because of its habitat fragmentation. They inhabit different altitudinal floors from dry thorn forests with shrubs, pine-oak forests, even borders of cloud forests.

Honduran Manatee

Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge. The refuge's most famous inhabitant is the elusive and endangered West Indian Manatee with an estimated population of 50 individuals. Photo credit: US Fish & Wildlife Service.

Resplendent Quetzal

Regional Endemic. The male Quetzal is one of the most beautiful birds in the tropics, this cloud forest Trogonidae that feeds of "aguacatillo", a wild type of avocado from the Lauraceae family.

Keel-billed Motmot

Northern Regional Endemic. This one is of the seven members of the Momotidae family that you can observe in Honduras. We have more motmots here than in any other country in the region. KBMO inhabits mature and secondary humid rainforests.

Northern Emerald-Toucanet

Northern Regional Endemic. Small emerald green toucan of humid montane forests, the sub-species found in Honduras has a white throat, and further south it has a blue throat.

Rufous-collared Robin

Regional Endemic. This beautiful thrush is restricted to a small region of highlands in Central America but within its distribution range in Honduras is fairly common.

Rufous-browed Wren

Regional Endemic. This elusive cute wren is restricted to highland forests, often found foraging from bromeliads, fallen trees, and tangled climbing plants.

Bushy-crested Jay

Endemic to Northern Central America. A breeding resident that can be found in a variety of habitats like, mixed forest, wooded plantations, pine-oak, and humid broadleaf forests.

Green-breasted Mountain-Gem

Co-Endemic species of hummingbird found only in central Honduras and north-western Nicaragua. Inhabits humid evergreen forests and edges with shrubs.

Wine-throated Hummingbird

Regional Endemic. A small hummingbird with a stunning pink gorget, that forages in clearings and edge of pine-oak forest and cloud forest. During courtship displays, the males move back and forth in front of the females to attract their attention.

Conservation:

Feathers Eco-Birding Tours is part of a group of companies owned by our family. Our creed for conservation encompasses a percentage of all our tours to be donated for protection, investigation and conservation purposes to Finca Las Palmas, a private natural reserve, in the Apaguiz-Apapuerta Massif, the most vital watershed for Danli and more than 70 surroundings communities, in the Department of El Paraíso, Honduras.

The mature broad-leaf forest found in this massif is of great importance because of the infiltration and recollection of water and is a very rich area in biodiversity issues.

Reviews:

Don't miss this opportunity

Western Highlights

Erick9 Apr 2018

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I took this tour about a year ago and I have to say it was a great experience, I would like to highlight Feathers and their staff since they are in charge of making you take an experience that will last a long time in your memory. The experience begins since the guides receive you, Honduras is a very beautiful country and this tour will show you several of those aspects in addition to different landscapes, its people and its gastronomy which I have to say is delicious, also this tour takes you for some towns that still retain their colonial appearance and their people are very friendly. Something that I liked about this trip is that the landscapes are constantly changing, from a colonial town you will pass the Mayan ruins an ancient pre-Hispanic civilization, then to the beach and then an exciting boat trip and also a visit to the Yojoa lake that I have understood is the only lake in the country and last but not least you have to know that in each of those places you will see a lot and variety of birds constantly some of which can only be seen in some of the places you go to visit on this tour. The prices are very accessible, I know that this is one of the most important aspects when traveling, but there are different options and packages I can assure you that you will not regret it. So if you want to know a new place and see a wide variety of unique birds you can not miss the opportunity to take this tour!!!!

Pajareando con gusto

Western Highlights

Lucas valderas20 Sep 2017

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Experiencia de pajareo agradable, con un guia formado, atento y siempre solicito a mis preguntas. Zona de pajareo poco conocida pero con aves de interes. Varios livers fotografiados gracias a gilberto!!

Trip of a lifetime

Western Highlights

Peter Cagle13 Jun 2018

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Unbelievable week of touring Honduras. I visited Copans ruins. I swam in hot springs. I saw birds and monkeys and crocodiles. The towns were quaint and the people warm and friendly. I went on a boat ride like an early explorer. The accomodations and food were great. The tour guides were knowledgeable friendly and speak excellent english. By the end of the week we were good friends. They made me feel safe at all times. I highly recommend this tour. It is very reasonably priced.

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