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News & Reports
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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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The end of the road for the famous Western Pacific Odyssey?
Heritage Expeditions has told us that they are not planning to operate the Western Pacific Odyssey again, so the spring 2025 expedition looks like being the last of its kind! This epic journey from New Zealand to Japan has become famous over the years for being one of the world’s ‘Ultimate Pelagics’. It is also […]
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SAUDI ARABIA TOUR REPORT 2024
This was Birdquest’s first tour to Saudi Arabia, a part of the world that has only recently been opened to tourists and currently, with Yemen not accessible to visitors, the only country where you can see the SW Arabian endemics and near-endemics in complete safety in a rapidly modernizing land. Our very successful nine-day tour […]
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NORTHEAST INDIA TOUR REPORT 2024
This comprehensive, bird-filled 23-day tour of NE India was a highly successful exploration of the remote northeast corner of the Indian subcontinent seeing almost 500 species of birds, including most of the region’s specialties and other highly desired bird species. The Himalayan section of the trip amongst the snowy heights of the Dirang Region produced […]
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GUATEMALA & HONDURAS TOUR REPORT 2024
Northern Central America hosts some of the finest birds of the region and a good variety of habitats which makes Guatemala & Honduras very attractive. Also, a good number of specialties that just occur in northern Central America and southern Mexico have easier access from Guatemala, which is another good reason to consider this area […]
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PAKISTAN’S HIMALAYAS TOUR REPORT 2024
This was the first Birdquest tour to Pakistan to run since 2005, and also my first return since then, and what an exciting adventure it was! From the hot foothills at Islamabad to the forested mountain valleys and high passes, in addition to the birds nothing quite prepares one for the sheer abundance of jaw-dropping […]
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AZORES TOUR REPORT 2024
Our second-ever tour to the Azores was another great visit to this Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. This tour is focused on the now three endemic breeding birds of the amazing islands, which is linked nicely with our Madeira tour. We had great success finding the endemics: the intriguing Azores Bullfinch, the recently split […]
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MICRONESIA TOUR REPORT 2024
Our 2024 Micronesia tour was another epic twitch around the widely scattered group of islands in the Western Pacific which between them form Micronesia. It was an out and out success, with all desired endemics being seen, and seen well, as well as a few smart seabirds and some uncommon migrants. Amongst the impressive collection […]
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