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News & Reports
Explore the latest news and birding tour reports from Birdquest.
CAPE VERDE ISLANDS TOUR REPORT 2024
Our 2024 tour to the Cape Verde Islands ended up turning up a lot of good birds, but it was certainly ‘interesting times’ as the Chinese would put it, as the domestic airline went bust just before we arrived! Internal flights in the islands have always been problematic, with frequent late schedule changes and sometimes […]
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ATLANTIC ODYSSEY TOUR REPORT 2024
The Atlantic Odyssey of 2024 was an epic journey from Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego via South Georgia, ultra-remote Gough Island, the main Tristan da Cunha island group, Saint Helena and Ascension Island to the Cape Verde Islands! It is certainly one of the two greatest seabird voyages on Earth, rivalled only by the Subantarctic […]
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SNOW LEOPARDS & WILDLIFE OF MONGOLIA TOUR REPORT 2024
Our first ‘Snow Leopards & Wildlife’ tour to Mongolia was a resounding success. Among the 27 mammals recorded we had no fewer than eight sightings of Pallas’s Cat (mostly very close), three Snow Leopard sightings and 20 Wild Camels in total! The latter is now one of the rarest mammals in the Old World. Not […]
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CLASSIC PAPUA NEW GUINEA TOUR REPORT 2024
New Guinea being the second largest island on Earth with a great coverage of pristine primary forest and known from several natural history programmes on TV especially David Attenborough’s great interpretation is one of the most sought-after birding locations for most birders. Having the extraordinary Bird-of-paradise is just the icing on the cake when it […]
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TURKEY, GEORGIA & CYPRUS TOUR REPORT 2024
Our second ‘Grand Tour’ of Asia Minor this year was one with several ups and downs, quite often literally! Especially our visit to the southeastern parts of Turkey was a great success, with amazing views of specialties such as Desert Finch, Pale Rockfinch, Iraq Babbler, Pallid Scops Owl, See-see Partridge, Caspian Snowcock, Radde’s Accentor, Red-wattled […]
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ULTIMATE SUMATRA TOUR REPORT 2024
Our 2024 tour to Sumatra was a brilliant success! A great and enthusiastic group, largely good weather, and, other than the odd re-arranged flight, good logistics, all helped, allowing us to find nearly all of our target birds. Enggano and Nias were not part of our itinerary, and of the remaining endemics, we saw all […]
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INDONESIA’S LESSER SUNDAS TOUR REPORT 2024
Birdquest’s highly successful tours to the Nusa Tenggara region of Indonesia was continued this year with all possible endemic bird species seen. We recorded 234 bird species during a 19-day long tour while visiting the islands of Sumba, Timor, Rote, Flores and Komodo, while no major flight delays or logistic issues occurred making the tour […]
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INDIA’S MONSOON SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2024
This was Birdquest’s first tour to India during the summer monsoon, a time when several special birds, pretty much impossible, or at least far more difficult, to locate in the rest of the year, become visible and much easier to see. During our ten-day tour, with two days in the Pune-Mumbai area and eight days […]
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Combine the Banda Sea and Southern Moluccas islands in 2025 and get US$1000 off!
It is not often you get a special treat like this, but anyone booking both our endemic-rich Remote Islands of the Banda Sea and our Southern Moluccas tours in September/October 2025 will receive a discount of US$1000 or equivalent! Don’t lose out! Our Southern Moluccas tour in September visits Ambon, the Kai Islands, Buru, Seram […]
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Combine Atlantic Odyssey with the Antarctic Peninsula and get a 10% discount over and above the special Birdquest Atlantic Odyssey benefits!
In 2026 you can combine the famous Atlantic Odyssey (one of the world’s two ‘Ultimate Pelagics’) with a short (10 days) Antarctic Peninsula expedition cruise. If you book both trips you qualify for a 10% discount off the total cost of the two expeditions! A huge saving! In March the chances for Emperor Penguin in […]
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