Endemics and Tacos
After finishing up my epic trip to Costa Rica , I returned to the US for some much-needed rest (and catching up on work). I wasn't quite done with the Neotropics yet, though: on March 21 I left DC once again, this time to Mexico City. My sister and I had gifted my mom tickets to Mexico for Christmas, and I was joining them for a weekend. They would be there all week, but after being in Costa Rica for so long (and with other travel plans coming up later), a long weekend was all I could spare. This wasn't a birding trip of course, and the main idea was to spend some time exploring Mexico City, visiting museums and eating food. Regardless, I obviously wasn't going to go to a new place and not look for new birds while I was there. This was to be my first time birding in Mexico outside of Sonora , so I had lots of targets, particularly the many species endemic to Mexico's central plateau. I decided to fly in a day earlier so that I could have two full mornings of birding