Published on Dec, 2024

Our group of 5 enjoyed the morning with Miguel, who was both personable and knowledgeable. The trip was well organized with a van following us and available with food and water. We saw a good variety of birds.

Published on Nov, 2024

I did two tours with Amar Aves and they were both great. I booked a private guide for both. My boyfriend and I did the Coba tour with Jose. He was a great guide and found us lots of amazing species, including the Ruddy Crake, Purple Gallinule, Gartered and Black Headed Trogon, Morelet's Seedeater, and many more. We got to a count of 53 for the day, which was great! Birding the pond was really cool, and we saw lots of water birds up close, including Limpkins too. At Coba we saw all the ruins, we got to take bikes to bike around to see everything, which was a happy surprise. I thought we might just see a couple of the ruins that were near where we were birding, but there was time allocated to bike around to everything, which was great as my boyfriend is more into ruins than birding. We also tacked on the cenotes stop, which was really cool to swim under stalagmites and refreshing after a hot morning of birding. For the second tour, I went solo with Miguel on the Muyil tour. Miguel is an incredible birder, super knowledgable and has a keen ear. Birding in Muyil area was really good, we saw lots of species up close, including: Squirrel Cuckoos, Keel-billed Toucans, Blue Bunting, American Pygmy Kingfisher, 4 species of orioles, and many more. We got to a count of 57 for the day. The Muyil ruins were closed, which the tour company had told me in advance, but I was good with that, as I was keen to focus just on birding for the morning. Birding with Miguel was really fun. And he even shared some photos from birding afterwards. I'm really into birding and always keen to learn more. Both Jose and Miguel take the time to point out the field markings with you to help identify different birds, and will point out different calls to help you get used to them. There was very limited use of callbacks, which is great. Both Jose and Miguel kept track of the birds on ebird and shared the lists afterwards, so I could focus on birding. I would highly recommend booking with Amar Aves.

Published on Jul, 2024

We got Claudio as our guide. He was extremely experience and was able to point out all the birds accurately. We managed to see fifty plus birds in total, Fox, moles and many others wildlife around Sian Ka’an area. Me and my partner thoroughly enjoyed it and will highly recommend bird watchers to join this tour

Published on Jul, 2024

Squirrel Cuckoo, the two Mot-mots, Ocellated Turkey and the collared Aracari were our mega-twitches of the day!! José Paz is one of the best birding guides with whom we've had the pleasure finding new birds !!

Published on May, 2024

We LOVED this trip, Claudio was an amazing guide both knowledgable and mindful of what we wanted to try and see. This trip is definitely worth going on and has a great mix of nature and archaeology. Highly recommend.