Birding & Wildlife Tours, Cruises & Expeditions

We were all delighted to see that our late friend and former colleague Paul Coopmans has had a new species named after him...
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Western Tragopan is now on the Birdquest Life List! This little-known but gorgeous pheasant of the Western Himalayas has been seen by only a tiny number of birders. (Mark Beaman)
Lord Howe Island is the latest Birdquest Expedition. Join us in paradise in December 2014. Click for details. (Inger Vandyke)
We now have a new downloadable 'mini-brochure', giving a tours overview from January 2014 to June 2015. Click here. Red-winged Fairy-wren, endemic to SW Australia (Pete Morris)
White-winged Nightjar is likely to be one of the highlights of our brand new Neotropical Bird Club Fundraiser tour to Paraguay. Click here.
See our new and additional tours for 2014–2015. Click here. Siberian Blue Robin by Mark Beaman
See our new Bird Families Guide! Click here. The monotypic Przevalski's or Pink-tailed Finch on the Tibetan Plateau (Mark Beaman)
If you love great scenery and stunning endemics, look no further than Central Peru. Click here to see Pete's latest report including the wonderful Golden-backed Mountain Tanager pictured here.
You can now combine Cuba with our expanded Bahamas tour as well as with Jamaica. Click here. Cuban Tody by Pete Morris
Rufous Potoo is just one of the mega-specialities of our NW Brazil tour. Click here. (Pete Morris)
Roraiman Barbtail, one of the highlights of our re-vamped Eastern Venezuela tour, which now includes an extension to the amazing Mount Roraima. Click here (Pete Morris)
Pycroft's Petrel, just one of many great seabirds on South Pacific Odyssey. Big airfare discounts available. Click here. (Dani López-Velasco)
Short-tailed Albatross, a much-wanted speciality on Western Pacific Odyssey, which returns in 2015. Click here. (Pete Morris)
Reflecting its monotypic family status, we now have a Rail-babbler Extension to our Malay Peninsula tours. Click here. Crested Fireback at Taman Negara by Doug Ormston
We have recently launched 'The Final 500 Expeditions' to see as many as possible of the last 500 species for the BirdQuest Life List. Click here. Amsterdam Albatross, one of the world's rarest birds, on our Southern Indian Ocean expedition (Mark Beaman)
A Black-faced Sheathbill scavenges at a penguin carcass on Heard Island (Mark Beaman)
It took a round trip of over 7000 miles to get Heard Shag on the BirdQuest Life List. We birders are definitely a bit mad! (Mark Beaman)
Heard Island at sunset, at the veritable 'Ends of the Earth' (Mark Beaman)
We were all delighted to see that our late friend and former colleague Paul Coopmans has had a new species named after him...
Least Sandpiper in Alaska (Pete Morris)
Jocotoco Antpitta is a star bird in Southern Ecuador (Pete Morris)
The wonderful Banded Ground-Cuckoo, a real treat on our Ecuador tours (Pete Morris)
Everyone loves toucans! Toco Toucans in the Pantanal (Mark Beaman)
The extraordinary Sunbittern occurs widely in South America, including the Pantanal (Mark Beaman)
Harpy Eagle is one of those 'must-see' creatures for every birder's lifetime. This adult was in the Pantanal (Mark Beaman)
Jaguar is another of those iconic animals, and the Pantanal is the finest place for sightings (Mark Beaman)
A Negros Scops Owl peers down at a Birdquest group in the Philippines (Pete Morris)
The stunning Firethroat in Sichuan (Pete Morris)
The magnificent but rarely seen Père David's (or Sichuan Wood) Owl (Pete Morris)
The lovely Purple-crowned Fairy-wren, a speciality of N Australia (Pete Morris)
Battling rather than 'kissing' adult and immature Steller's Sea Eagles in Japan (Pete Morris)
Tufted Coquette in Trinidad (Pete Morris)
The extraordinary scenery of Ladakh (Mark Beaman)
Kiangs (Tibetan Wild Asses) roam the high plains of Ladakh (Mark Beaman)
Ladakh is one of the best places in the world for seeing Grey Wolves (Mark Beaman)
Ladakh is surely the best place for close views of the handsome Tibetan Sandgrouse (Mark Beaman)
The best-looking mammal in the world bar none, Bengal Tiger (Mike Watson)
Kirtland's Warbler is THE most sought-after of all Northern American wood warblers (Mike Watson)
Greater Roadrunner, one of the most charismatic birds of the southern deserts of the USA (Mike Watson)
McCown's Longspurs are back on the short-grass prairies of Colorado by early April (Mike Watson)
The grey-bellied Rocky Mountain form of Pine Grosbeak is one to watch (Mike Watson)
One of the smartest North American woodpeckers, Lewis's Woodpecker (Mike Watson)
The unspeakably beautiful White-tailed Ptarmigan of Colorado's Rocky Mountains (Mike Watson)
Sykes's Nightjar, a winter ghost of India's northwestern deserts (Mike Watson)
Pallid Scops Owls also spend the winter in Western India (Mike Watson)
Forest Owlet still clings on in a remote corner of Western India (Mike Watson)
Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands is THE place to catch up with the threatened Houbara Bustard (Mike Watson)
Fuerteventura Chat, one of the endemic specialities of the Canary Islands (Mike Watson)
Purple Sandpipers are a fine sight in their breeding dress in Iceland and Spitsbergen (Mike Watson)
Smart drake Harlequin Ducks by a fast-flowing river in northern Iceland (Mike Watson)
Cream-coloured Coursers grace deserts from the Canary Islands to Arabia and Western India (Mike Watson)
Streaked Scrub Warbler is a regular fixture on our visits to Oman (Mike Watson)
Hume's Owl is restricted to the deserts of the Middle East. Oman is a good place to catch up with it (János Oláh)
Plain Leaf Warblers cross the Strait of Hormuz to spend the winter in Northern Oman (Mike Watson)
The majestic Bonelli's Eagle can be seen in mountainous areas from Spain to India (Mike Watson)
Sandhill Cranes at sunrise at Bosque del Apache, New Mexico (Mark Beaman)
Cranes never fail to excite the human imagination (Mark Beaman)
Snow Geese 'blasting off' at Bosque del Apache are one of the world's great bird spectacles (Mark Beaman)
Can a Pied-billed Grebe swallow a crayfish whole? Answer: Yes! (Mark Beaman)

Welcome to Birdquest

BirdQuest offers 'The Ultimate in Birding Tours' worldwide.

BirdQuest, founded in 1981, has an unequalled repertoire of birding tours and combined birdwatching and wildlife holidays and cruises that will appeal to every kind of birder. Our tours are celebrated as the very best available, and we have shown our clients and friends over 10,000 bird species worldwide, more than any other birding tour company (and not that far off the total for all other birding tour companies combined!), as well as an extraordinary variety of mammals and many other fascinating aspects of the natural world.

Our superb selection of land-based tours not only feature popular, well-known destinations, but also many less-visited countries and regions, including frontier destinations where others rarely if ever tread. We can take you birding in over 120 different parts of the world, including all the following and many more besides: Alaska, Argentina, Australia, Bhutan, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Caribbean, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Manitoba, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Turkey and Uganda.

We also have a fantastic series of birding and wildlife expedition cruises that will take you to some of the most remote places on our planet, as well as offering some extraordinary wildlife encounters including the opportunity to watch rarely-seen pelagic seabirds and whales. Destinations include Antarctica (including the Antarctic Peninsula, the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea), the Subantarctic Islands (including the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha and the Aucklands, Campbell and Macquarie), Spitsbergen (Svalbard), the Russian Far East (including Sakhalin, the Kurils, Kamchatka and the Commanders and the Sea of Okhotsk), the Russian Arctic (Chukotka and Wrangel), Baja California (including the Sea of Cortez), the Galapagos, and the South Pacific islands (including the Tuamotus, Pitcairn & Henderson, and the Kermadecs, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu & Solomons).

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