Birding and Wildlife Tours of Veracruz, Mexico

Pronatura A.C. Veracruz Organization: Dedicated to Conservation Endeavors in Mexico

River of Raptors and Birds in Veracruz Fall Tours

This tour is set to coincide with the peak of fall migration in Veracruz, while visits to tropical rainforest, pine-oak woodlands, fog-shrouded humid forest, coastal mangroves and other habitats will provide us with an excellent introduction to the birds of Mexico.

Our raptor monitoring, environmental education and conservation program has 14 years working towards a better understanding of key issues regarding raptor migration. Your opportunity to witness the raptor migration will be enriched by visiting our monitoring stations and bird observatory with all the counting activity and tourism orientation provided by our trained education internships. 

About our tour content and operation: We provide a high-quality guided experience with our experienced local birding guides.  With our native knowledge background and experience we strive to provide excellent quality with particular emphasis on specific areas of natural history, specially birds as well as mammals, botany, butterflies and dragonflies of this beautiful country.

All our tours allow exploring local archeological sites, beautiful colonial towns, excellent cuisine and comfortable accommodations and transportation services. We host our tour participants hoping their cultural immersion during their stay will be a unique and pleasant experience.
Quoted prices are inclusive of accommodation, meals, ground transport costs, Park entry fees, and specialist guide fees, bottled water while in transit, and personal species checklists and itineraries. Quoted prices exclude all flights, personal travel insurance, bar bills, gratuities and other items of a personal nature.
All tour participants receive a detailed species checklist and comprehensive trip report upon completion of the tour (please allow some time for compilation). You will be invited to contribute with our photo-gallery library. Tour participant’s collaboration is optional and very valuable for us.

Contribute significantly to conservation through tourism by participating in one of our tours and join our “Amigos de la Rapaces” membership, thus helping to our raptors migration monitoring, habitat protection and environmental education endeavors.

A message from our Tourism for Conservation Coordinator
Pronatura “Veracruz River of Raptor” tours are the pioneer tour operator that brought to the world attention the awareness of the continental bottle neck that generates this unique massive raptor migration in coastal Veracruz, Mexico. With 15 years of knowledge and experience behind our tour operations, we are proud to host through the years hundreds of organizations and individuals. Thanks to all of them, we have become one-of-a-kind raptor migration, passerine and resident birds tour operators in Mexico.

For more information and tour registration contact:

Jorge G. Barrios
Pronatura Tourism for Conservation Coordinator at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

PRONATURA TOURS visual gallery.

Birding in Veracruz with knowledgeable native guides and US leaders form TNC, HMS, HWI, Massachusetts Audubon and more.

Visiting unique sites to out-of-the-path tourism birding places discovered by our guides through years of scouting the region

As local birders, we constantly are scouting for new birding sites.

Cultural side of the tours,

A visit to the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa to admire the ancient civilizations
of Veracruz state.

Photos by:
David Mehlman, Jorge Barrios and
Pronatura staff.