Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico July 2015 |
From July 11-23, 2015, Sheridan and I spent four days in the central Chiapas area as part of the GBNA biennial meeting, and then a week in south/central Oaxaca as part of a private group, ably organized and lead by Michael Retter.
This Green Parakeets Psittacara holochlorus holochlorus were nesting/roosting by the hundreds in a large sinkhole (sima, or cenote) in the low foothills well west of Tuxtla Guttierez, Chiapas.
The sinkhole: