News & Reports from Birdquest Birding Tours Worldwide

CUBA TOUR REPORT 2026

Our 2026 Cuba tour took place during a period of significant challenges for the country. Nevertheless, despite fuel shortages and other logistical limitations, our itinerary was never affected, thanks to the outstanding efforts of our local guides, driver and support team. The tour proved to be highly successful. By the end of the trip, we […]

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TURKEY & CYPRUS TOUR REPORT 2026

This year’s visit to Cyprus & Turkey was a very interesting one, in many ways. Upon reading older tour reports, I saw that my esteemed colleague Pete Morris wrote that one would have ‘guaranteed great weather’, but this was certainly different from our tour. However, what definitely hasn’t changed since our tours in 2024, 2022 […]

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NORTHERN ECUADOR TOUR REPORT 2025

Northern Ecuador is one of the finest South America, standing out for its exceptional diversity of birds and the variety of habitats available across different elevation ranges on both slopes of the northern Ecuador Andes. On the western slope, you will encounter Choco birds; on the eastern side, an Amazonian influence is evident; and as […]

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CALIFORNIA & ARIZONA SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2026

Our first California & Arizona specialities tour turned out to be a great success! In 16 full days we did not only see almost all possible specialties, but we also had great views of most of them – even the most difficult ones (to see)! Highlights included a fabulous Spotted Owl, good views of numerous […]

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GUATEMALA & HONDURAS TOUR REPORT 2026

Our second Guatemala & Honduras tour was very successful. Compared to the first edition, we made several improvements that allowed us to use our time more efficiently in certain areas and increase our chances of seeing some of the more challenging target species. As a result, we recorded 407 species (18 more than on the […]

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ATLANTIC ODYSSEY TOUR REPORT 2026

The 2026 Atlantic Odyssey was a very unusual tour blessed with many marvelous observations of birds and marine mammals in some of the more remote islands of the world, but sadly and very unusually blighted by the occurrence of the dreaded Hanta virus on board of the ship, the Hondius. We did manage to visit […]

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BHUTAN TOUR REPORT 2026

An epic tour to Bhutan once again, with a grand total of 403 species recorded. The highlights included Satyr Tragopans, Himalayan Monals, White-bellied Herons, a male Ward’s Trogon, Beautiful Nuthatch, Ibisbills, a kaleidescope of Laughingthrushes and that all-important little Spotted Elachura. We also had superb encounters with Hill Partridge, Blood Pheasants, Tawny and Brown Fish […]

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ANTARCTICA: THE PENINSULA TOUR REPORT 2026

This tour started under a rather bad omen, as only a few days before the start we were told that the ship “Hondius” was out of order and that the only possibility was to join the ship “Ortelius” on a cruise to the Weddell Sea. We didn’t have much choice really and were a bit […]

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TAIWAN TOUR REPORT 2026

Taiwan is a beautiful sub-tropical, mountainous island with large and well-protected natural areas. No fewer than 32 endemics occur, many of which are both beautiful and distinctive, with spectacular species like Mikado and Swinhoe’s Pheasants, Taiwan Blue Magpie, Taiwan Yuhina and White-eared Sibia. The main island also shares a decent number of near-endemics with China […]

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SOUTHERN MEXICO TOUR REPORT 2026

The Southern Mexico tour is the most comprehensive of the Birdquest itineraries in the country, covering Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, and central Mexico, and exploring a wide range of habitats in search of the region’s many specialties. On this occasion, a Morelos pre-extension allowed us to add key highland species along with the Balsas drainage specialties […]

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