News & Reports from Birdquest Birding Tours Worldwide

EASTERN CHINA IN WINTER TOUR REPORT 2026

Does our Eastern China in Winter itinerary deliver the largest number of encounters with very spectacular birds of any Asian bird tour? I think it does! If you are in any doubt, just take a look at the Top Birds of the 2026 tour. Not only an amazing list of magnificent birds, but every single […]

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PERU’S IQUITOS & THE UPPER AMAZON TOUR REPORT 2026

On this short, intense tour we explored the different lowland rainforest types that surround the town of Iquitos in northeastern Peru. Varzea, terra firme, varillal, oxbow lakes and younger and older river islands were all thoroughly examined. The impact of El Niño was very obvious as it was hotter and much drier than it should […]

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SNOW LEOPARDS & WILDLIFE OF MONGOLIA TOUR REPORT 2026

Our 2026 ‘Snow Leopards and Wildlife’ tour, ranging from west to east across Mongolia, was another great success. The main part of the tour produced some truly wonderful Snow Leopard sightings, including a nearly day-long encounter (!) with a mother and three sweet little cubs that turned into an extraordinary close encounter at the very […]

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NORTHERN PERU TOUR REPORT 2026

The Northern Peru tour offers an extraordinary combination of habitats, endemics and rarities, making it one of the most diverse Birdquest tours at the moment. This year we managed to record the impressive total of 769 species, with great success among the targets we were looking for, as well as many incredible surprises. Perhaps the […]

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INDONESIA’S LESSER SUNDAS TOUR REPORT 2026

Our latest Birdquest to Sumba, Timor, Rote, Flores and Komodo was another great success, with around 105 taxonomy-dependant Tenggaran endemics amongst our huge trip total of 262 species. Some of the top highlights this year included Black and Eucalypt Cuckoo-Doves, Sumba and Flores Green Pigeons, Timor Imperial Pigeon, Banded and Red-naped Fruit Doves, Sumba Buttonquail, […]

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SOMALILAND & DJIBOUTI TOUR REPORT 2026

This was our fourth tour to the little visited countries of Djibouti and Somaliland. During our short stay in Djibouti we concentrated on getting to grips with its only endemic, the Djibouti Spurfowl, which showed fairly soon after we had reached its favoured habitat in the Forêt du Day. We also had a good time […]

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TANZANIA’S EASTERN ARC & PEMBA TOUR REPORT 2026

The main goal of this Tanzania ‘with a difference’ tour was trying to see a good selection of the avifauna of the different isolated mountain ranges of central-eastern Tanzania, which hold an excellent selection of endemic and near endemic birds. Not too far away from the popular and so very different northern Tanzania circuit, this […]

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BRAZIL’S PANTANAL & ALTA FLORESTA TOUR REPORT 2026

This tour of central-western Brazil must surely offer one of the most varied and rewarding wildlife experiences in South America, combining the extraordinary avifaunas of the southern Amazonian forests, the open Cerrado and the immense seasonally flooded wetlands of the Pantanal. It takes in some of the finest sites within each of these regions and, […]

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NORTHERN ECUADOR TOUR REPORT 2026

The 2026 Northern Ecuador tour was once again a phenomenal success. The tour saw us travel from over 4300 metres at the tops of the Andes down to the Amazonian foothills and into the lowland Choco forest at less than 100 metres above sea level. Along the way we recorded a total of 677 different […]

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MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2026

Our tour to the Malay Peninsula has been revised and redesigned to give you as many special birds and experiences of the region as possible. This was the inaugural tour of this itinerary and we believe it was a great success! The small island of Singapore at the southern tip of the peninsula is often […]

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