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SOMALILAND & DJIBOUTI TOUR REPORT 2023
Our 2023 Somaliland & Djibouti tour was our third to these two little-birded countries and was highly successful, turning up all the hoped for endemics and near-endemics and a large number of other speciality birds. Not to mention some very special mammals. Arrival in Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital and the seat of administration in the old […]
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VENEZUELA IS BACK! Guaranteed departure Eastern and Western Venezuela tours in 2025
Birdquest has been operating birding tours to Venezuela since the 1980s. This is a marvellous country for birding, with a host of endemics, so it was with great sadness that we had to cease offering the place during the turbulent years of the ‘Bolivarian Revolution’. Now the revolutionary fervour has ebbed away and while Venezuela […]
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Far North Luzon, Calayan & Samar Expedition 2025
In 2025 only, we are planning to make a special Birdquest Expedition to some rarely visited birding locations including the far north of Luzon, Calayan Island off northern Luzon and Samar Island in the Visayans. Major target endemics will include Calayan Rail, Northern Rufous Hornbill, Samar Crow, Sierra Madre Crow, Cordillera Ground Warbler, Visayan Pygmy […]
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SOUTHERN & CENTRAL ARGENTINA TOUR REPORT 2023
The 2023 Birdquest Southern & Central Argentina tour was another success story in well over 30 years of tours to this region focusing principally on the vast, mostly uninhabitable desert that is Patagonia. We managed to see 319 species including 118 diamond birds of restricted range, referring to Patagonian and Pampas specialties. The Critically Endangered […]
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SOUTH AFRICA SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2023
The 2023 Birdquest to South Africa continued our long run of successful trips to this classic birding destination. We saw a whole host of fantastic birds, including over 134 Birdquest ‘diamond birds’ – species with restricted ranges rarely encountered on any other tour itinerary. Our tour began in the spectacular fynbos-clad mountains of the Western […]
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NORTHERN ECUADOR TOUR REPORT 2023
Northern Ecuador is one of the finest South American birding destinations, and definitely stands out with the high diversity of birds and the different habitats that you will find at the different elevation ranges on both slopes of the northern Ecuador Andes, with Chocó birds on the western slope, an Amazonian influence on birds of […]
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REMOTE ISLANDS OF THE BANDA SEA TOUR REPORT 2023
The second Birdquest cruise through the remote islands of the Banda Sea proved to be another great success, with all of the major targets tracked-down without too much difficulty. Some of our best birds included: Tanimbar Megapode, Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove, Wetar Ground Dove, Wallace’s Fruit Dove, Flores Hawk-Eagle, Little Curlew, Oriental Plover, Australian (or Southern […]
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OMAN (WITH BAHRAIN) TOUR REPORT 2023
This was Birdquest’s fourteenth tour of Oman & Bahrain and once again proved to be a great success. We recorded a respectable total of 236 taxa of which 54 were Birdquest ‘diamond’ species (regional specialities) and saw several interesting migrants and seabirds. Oman’s special owls have always been a highlight of the tour, and we […]
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BOLIVIA TOUR REPORT 2023
Bolivia is a somewhat neglected South American destination and I have no idea why!? It is an amazing country with a huge list, just as good infrastructure as Peru and a long list of specialities! It is a land-locked country, but it is the biggest list for any such a country in the world with […]
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NEW ZEALAND TOUR REPORT 2023
We were lucky with the weather on our tour with three of the four scheduled pelagics going ahead and no real time lost to rain. The birds played their part too, with us seeing 150 species and hearing another 3, with 66 of those being endemic species during the course of the tour. We were […]
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