Endangered and endemic Emerald calls Honduras home, and only Honduras!

The Lodge at Pico Bonito has a fascinating excursion to seek out Central America's most endangered bird in its remaining tropical dry forest home.

The Honduran Emerald Hummingbird is listed as critically endangered and red-listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The principal cause of the Emerald's decline is habitat destruction, with approximately 90% of its original habitat lost, and the remaining habitat occurring in isolated patches of arid thorn-forest and scrub of the interior valleys of northern Honduras.

Guests leave early in the morning for the three-hour drive to the arid Rio Aquan Valley, in the rain shadow of Pico Bonito's north coast mountains. Here sightings of the Emerald are common as are numerous other species typical of this environment.