Chiapas Birding Adventures

11/24/2022

10/17/2022

10/13/2022

Big day for the Birds!

09/22/2022

I have a DREAM. I have been trying for almost 2 years now to deliver the donation of over 1000 books to the young people of Frontera Corozal, a Chol-Maya community of less than 6000 inhabitants, situated in the state of Chiapas on the Usumacinta River. The books are the donation of the private library of 2 language professors, a man and wife, who died within 3 months of each other, after 38 and 31 years of giving their knowledge of the Spanish language to the young people at the University of Texas/San Antonio (Texas). Their dying wish was to donate their private library to the community of Frontera Corozal. Though packed and ready, I have so far been unable to deliver the wishes of these 2 generous professors.
In November, we are hoping to celebrate the beautiful 306 page book written and designed by Carolyn Tate - "YAXCHILAN, THE DESIGN OF A MAYA CEREMONIAL CITY." We will be at the SITE. I am hoping to enlist the help of the Mexican Navy to deliver this library, by the Usumacinta River, to the community where they were destined to be, blessed by the Jesuit priests of Georgetown University. The youths of Frontera will be constructing the building, unique architecturally, as the resting place for the education to be imparted to the open minds and open hearts of the living.

Saludos, Brock Huffman
Chiapas Birding Adventures

09/06/2022

Help us...

08/03/2022

Everyone who has visited Mexico always has a story to tell.
Let's make it a chain letter.

I was traveling on Interjet Air on Dec 9,2019, from San Antonio to Tuxtla Gutierrez by way of Mexico City, in order to get to San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Upon landing in Mexico City I reached into the overhead bin for my mochilla and then took a nosedive to the airplane floor, where I began my 5 day 5 night coma. I was carried by ambulance to the hospital. a city hospital where they had no idea who I was, whether I had insurance, etc. etc. The doctor at the hospital picked up my cell phone and called the last person I had spoken with (my family and friends always explained to me that I was not turning off my cell phone).The doctor told the "last person" that I needed help at his hospital. My friend. Bruce Hathway's daughter gave him the information on my two sons, Bart and Burdette. My sons then immediately flew to Mexico City and found me at the hospital, on my back, unconscious, with about 8 people surrounding me, beating on my chest to keep me alive. I was operated on and had a pacemaker put in place on my chest and was flown with my sons to a "heart hospital" in Houston, Texas. My doctors didn't know what had happened to me - I don't smoke, don't drink alcohol, don't use illegal drugs, and don't have diabetes. So what caused my heart to beat 20 beats per minute, down to 12 beats at one point, causing the doctors to say I shouldn't even be alive, and they finally decided it must have been caused by the stress of my representation in federal courts in Texas.
Called "lover lost," in medical Jargon. I have had full recovery after 3 weeks in the hospital but most importantly not one thing was missing from my personal billfold, my backpack, personal credit cards and cash, passport of USA, immigration card, cellphone, and 2 suitcases full of gifts, Let me say again -my wife took everything to our home in San Cristobal 2 days after my event and not a thing was missing. Former President Donald Trump would have called this a Democratic HOAX since he only believes bad stories about the honesty of Mexican citizens. Saludos, Brock Huffman Almost every tourist has had a good experience like this. Let's hear yours

07/20/2022

A long time investigator took this photo from his kitchen window in Texas.
He's coming to Chiapas Birding Adventures in january.

05/25/2022

Cerrito de San Cristóbal, a good spot for birding.
Chiapas, México.

05/18/2022

Beautiful place.
Palenque, Chiapas.

05/11/2022

A relaxing way to watch birds.
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.
Welcome!

04/29/2022

See you next year...

04/22/2022

A rare visitor, mountain wetlands, San Cristóbal De las Casas, Chiapas.
Brown Pelican.

04/10/2022

This is our map, whit the representative birds of Chiapas, Mexico.
Wellcome!

04/09/2022

Different vision...

04/05/2022

Mexico has 57 species of Hummingbirds; Chiapas has 52 spp.
Ts'unun is the common name of the Hummingbirds in tsotsil lenguaje.
The Hummingbirds representing the soul of the warriors death in the battle.
Art: Guillermo Mena.

04/01/2022

XULEM: design embroied on the clothes of Tsotsil people of Chiapas. Representing the Black Vulture; "God of Dawn".

03/30/2022

Hello.
The biggest bird of the world, the Oystrich.
1.7 / 2.8 m (adult).
Africa.