Birding in El Salvador

21/02/2026

We had a productive half-day birding tour with two birders from Texas, USA 🇺🇸 — ending up with more than 50 bird species! 🐦‍⬛

At the start, we were delighted by close-up views of the beautiful turquoise-browed motmot — the national bird of El Salvador 🇸🇻!

We also spotted 4 different species of orioles:
1. Streak-backed
2. Altamira
3. Spot-breasted
4. Baltimore.

The trails in Bicentenario Park also gave beautiful views of an Elegant Trogon and a Gartered Violaceous Trogon. We were also happy to spot a target species, the Cinnamon Hummingbird, near the end.

A highlight was observing the movements of some Common Squirrel Cuckoos as they climbed the trees. ⛰️ At Boquerón National Park, we added some highland species like Mountain Elania, Rufous-collared Robin, Brown-backed Solitaire , Rufous Hummingbird, White-winged Tanager, Mexican Violetear.It was an incredible morning of birding!

Our visitors also tried (and loved) local food like delicious pupusas, enjoyed the scenery and learned about the history of El Salvador and our educational program to support local birding guides from rural areas. 💙 🤍 We were joined Juan Jose, one of my trainees from the program, who did a fantastic job of finding birds with our spotting scope during the tour. 🔭
eBird trip report

https://ebird.org/tripreport/475549

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09/02/2026

Queremos agradecer a todos nuestros amigos y clientes pajareras y no pajareros por apoyar nuestro programa educativo de mediano a largo plazo con la reserva de tours, Juanjo García Birding Tour Guide es un educador, guía Aviturismo y turismo de Suchitoto determinado a dar un esfuerzo extra rompiendo esquemas con un modelo innovador no tradicional en turismo sostenible en El Salvador. Su compromiso con la conservación de los recursos naturales y aves educando niños de su comunidad y escuelas asi como visitantes y locales durante sus tours es claro y lo pone en práctica

Un porcentaje de nuestros ingresos son destinados a nuestro programa de capacitación de guías de Aviturismo, brindar charlas educativas en escuelas y comunidades de Suchitoto y otros lugares donde nuestros guías pajareros de áreas rurales viven y trabajan

We wan to thank to all our friends and customers birders and non birders for supporting our mid to long term educational programs for birding tour guides of rural areas through the booking of birding and regular tours Juanjo Garcia Birding Tour Guide is an educator and birding plus local tour guide from Suchitoto determined to give the extra mile to change the way resposable tourism is done and taking action delivering talks to children's on his village at local schools in the Suchitoto municipality, while delivering tours he care about spreading the word about the conversation of natural resources

A percentage of our profits go for the training of our local birding tour guides and to cover expenses for the delivery of talks to spread to word about the appreciation of nature where birds is the focus and the environment at locals schools in Suchitoto



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Kelly Warneke
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Baggett

09/02/2026

Bird photography 📸 tour to start the year with .sunset.office we found and photographed some target species like
White-faced Quail-Dove, Bar-winged Oriole, Green-throated Mountain-gem, Blue-and-white Mockingbird, Brown-backed Solitaire. We birded the grounds at Cerro Verde park and una ventana a la naturaleza trail, had delicious local food with Pupusas being the group favorites plus, great Salvaforan coffee plus jawdropping viewsof nearby Izalco, Santa Ana volcanoes and Coatepeque lake weather was pleasant turning the visit into a good morning for birding.

11/10/2025

03/10/2025

Our long term Birding and Conservation program is up and running. Local birding tour guide Juanjo García Birding Tour Guide is recording key data for eBird at the San José Palo Grande community ebird hot spot https://ebird.org/hotspot/L16126592 Data recorded would let us to know which species occur in the area to keep up our educational programs with people in the community. Special thanks to Laurie Foss Jean Kelly Warneke for supporting this plan fron the start. Also we want to thank The Birding Co-op and Mollee Brown for equipment donation and follow-up. You can support us birding with a purpose booking our birding and culture tours Birding in Suchitoto

11/09/2025

We want to thank everyone booking our birding tours and those supporting us from different countries to keep up and running our long term program for the taining in Avitourism of Garcia Birding Tour Guide https://www.facebook.com/share/16WmnYv9g9/ delivered a productive birding tour in the Palo Grande community Suchitoto El Salvador. Special thanks to Birding Co-op and Brown for the donation of optics to our program. Agradecemos a cada una de las personas que toman nuestros tours de avistamiento de aves por mantener funcionando nuestro programa de capacitación de guías de Aviturismo de largo plazo como Juanjo Garcia Birding Tour Guide y a todos aquellos de diferentes países que también nos apoyan

07/05/2025

Our birding and culture tour was productive, visitors from Canada observing colorful birds in a private tour at the Cerro Verde Park cloud forest

02/04/2025

Pictures of one of our last nature tours with visitors from USA and England, spotting local fauna in shaddy trails , flat terrain where Spider Monkeys where along the way for a while, bird species like country national bird Turquoise browed motmot known a "El Togoz" cooperated for pictures and reptiles took special attention of our travelers

Birding in El Salvador The Birding Co-op
Puerto Barillas Lodge

06/03/2025

Boat-Billed Heron
Along our Birding and nature tours we find bird species that cooperate for great photos, this time was for Boat-Billed Herons, keep good memories of your tours taking great pictures of local bird species traveling with us.