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ULTIMATE NORTHEAST BRAZIL TOUR REPORT 2024
Northeast Brazil offers a combination of rare endemics, endangered species and some of the most iconic birds in South America. The tour has a wide variety of habitats in three different biomes being the dry Caatinga, the Cerrado and the diverse Atlantic Forest. Also, we visited different localities of the Pernambuco endemism centre, where some […]
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COLOMBIA OFF-THE-BEATEN-TRACK TOUR REPORT 2024
We started the tour with an early departure from Bogota, so as to avoid the traffic and journeyed north through the Cundinamarca and Boyacá altiplanos, along the spine of the Eastern Andes. This area has been heavily populated for many years and natural habitat was scarce, though we did manage a few of the more […]
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CLASSIC COLOMBIA TOUR REPORT 2024
Our Colombian adventure began high in the Paramos, which straddle the eastern Andes above Bogota. Our first morning was spent in the breathtaking Sumapaz National Park, where we searched for a mouthwatering list of endemics and near endemics, among the Espeletia and bamboo dominated uplands. Perhaps the main target here is the near-endemic Green-bearded Helmetcrest. […]
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SOUTHERN ECUADOR TOUR REPORT 2024
A different trip to Southern Ecuador this year, due to the unexpected circumstances but my country still offered another highly enjoyable, fruitful and amazing tour! This unforgettable itinerary criss-crossed the southern Andes of Ecuador sampling the diverse avifauna of both slopes as well as visiting the dry deciduous forests in the southern Tumbesian region. Travel […]
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SOUTHERN MEXICO TOUR REPORT 2024
With the sad closure of the famous El Triunfo reserve since the covid pandemic, we changed our classic Southern Mexico itinerary, which now includes the Yucatan Peninsula instead of the state of Chiapas. We were a bit unlucky weatherwise this year, as most of Central Mexico had been suffering from a serious drought for an […]
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JAPAN IN WINTER TOUR REPORT 2024
A great trip and a very successful tour, it is always a pleasure to return to Japan, this being my twentieth visit. There is such a strong field of great birds it is almost impossible to agree on a ‘Bird-of-the-trip’: Red-crowned Crane, Steller’s Sea Eagle, Ural and Blakiston’s Fish Owls, and Pallas’s Rosefinches on Hokkaido, […]
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BANGLADESH EXPEDITION REPORT 2024
Our first expedition to Bangladesh and its wonderful Sundarbans was an outstanding success. Not only did we enjoy no fewer than three great and prolonged encounters with Masked Finfoot in our five days in the Sundarbans (perhaps a record) but we also had three encounters with the very rare and sought-after White-eared Night Heron (a […]
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SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE TOUR REPORT 2024
Well, this seemed like a bit of a whirlwind trip that flashed by in a moment! It was pretty hard work at times, but we were well looked after, had great local support and surprisingly good cuisine. And thankfully we had a very friendly and determined group that were prepared to put in the hard […]
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INDONESIA’S SOUTHERN & CENTRAL MOLUCCAS TOUR REPORT 2023
The tour visiting the Southern and Central Moluccas is one of the most endemic-rich ones put together in the region as it is visiting numerous islands. In 2023 we did our best to find the specialties of the following islands: Ambon, Haruku, Seram, Boano, Kai Kecil, Kai Besar with the extension reaching Yamdena (Tanimbars). The […]
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CLASSIC PHILIPPINES TOUR REPORT 2024
The bird of the tour was without a doubt the magnificent Philippine Eagle that showed so very, very well to us on Mount Kitanglad on the island of Mindanao. We had to work (and wait) for it, but eventually one of the world’s most powerful and impressive eagles performed beautifully, both perched and in flight… […]
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