Veracruz, Mexico (2-8 Octobre, 2006)

The final leg of my journey this summer took me to Veracruz, Mexico for the fourth North American Ornithological Congress.






Old town Veracruz - localo o central?


At the Constitution Plaza


Centro de historio, Veracruz.



A 16th century citadel. Ironically, the hotel guys told us there aren't any cool things to see in the old part of the city and that all the buildings are quite recent.


This is what a flock of birdpeople looks like!


The World Trade Center, our conference venue. The whole area was very upscale. It reminded me of being somewhere in the US, not in Mexico.


at the Hawk Migration Watch place in Cardel


A kettle


A kettle of hawks (mostly Swainson's, Broad-winged and Black Vultures) just forming. We must have seen about 20,000 hawks in just under 2 hours! It was a veritable river of migrating hawks.