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Explore the latest news and birding tour reports from Birdquest.
MONGOLIA TOUR REPORT 2023
Mongolia is an amazing country with fantastic scenery and some really special birds! It is also a vast country with very few human inhabitants: a visit to this true wilderness is an unforgettable birding experience! Our tour is usually run at the end of May when we have a good chance to observe the enigmatic […]
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JAPAN SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2023
A welcome return for this tour, it being four years since our last visit at this season. We enjoyed a wonderful jour-ney around the islands despite meeting Typhoon Marwa head-on in Okinawa, which rudely cancelled our visit to Ishigakijima and Iriomote. We were able to find all the endemics and expected specialities on our route, […]
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VIETNAM TOUR REPORT 2023
It was the second time Birdquest completed this itinerary in Vietnam, seeing as many as possible of the specialties of the country. Our 2023 tour did a good job collecting endemic and range-restricted birds in the country and recorded a total of 450 bird species complemented with some unforgettable mammal sightings. Starting in the lowland […]
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WESTERN SAHARA TOUR REPORT 2023
This year’s tour through the breath-taking landscapes of Western Sahara was a great success with the key specialities seen and delivered a wonderful taste of the spectacular migration passerines perform every year, all the way from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. We enjoyed great views of key birds like Golden Nightjar, Sudan Golden Sparrow, West African […]
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CUBA TOUR REPORT 2023
Cuba is a great destination for birdwatching, as it is the largest Caribbean Island, and contains the largest number of birds recorded of any of the Caribbean islands, plus it has 29 endemic species of which 27 can be reliably seen. During our trip we managed to see 176 species, including these 27 endemic species […]
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KENYA SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2023
This was definitely a tour through Kenya with a difference! The focus here was not on the ‘big five’ of the Masai Mara but rather on a selection of the country’s avian specialties that cannot be seen on any other tour to neighbouring countries. This involved a lot of driving over the length and breadth […]
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CENTRAL ASIA (KAZAKHSTAN & UZBEKISTAN) TOUR REPORT 2023
Well, what can one say to sum up this amazing adventure? Birding in Central Asia in May is utter magic for anyone who enjoys Palearctic birding at its best. So many birds around (like Western Europe must have been like in the 1800s!), beautiful breeding plumages, migration everywhere (especially obvious in the deserts), wonderful specialities, […]
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ISRAEL TOUR REPORT 2023
Israel remains the most exciting country for migration in the world, ‘The Flyway’ as it is now widely known among birders serves up a variety of migrants from waterbirds and raptors to passerines, there is always something happening whatever the weather. Northerly winds hold them up and bring them down and southerlies send them pouring […]
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BHUTAN TOUR REPORT 2023
The first Birdquest tour to Bhutan for 6 years saw us immersed in the fantastically diverse avifauna of the eastern Himalayas. With over 400 species of birds recorded by us during this wonderful journey, there were some superb highlights: Blood Pheasant, Satyr Tragopan, Himalayan Monal, Kalij Pheasant, Black-tailed Crake, Ibisbills with young, Tibetan Sand Plover, […]
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NORTHERN TANZANIA TOUR REPORT 2023
This incredible tour through Arusha and Tarangire National Parks, the Ngorongoro Crater and finally over the seemingly endless plains of the Serengeti surely has to be the ultimate wildlife travel experience out of anywhere in Africa if not indeed the whole world! The journey is simply one of those ‘must-do’ pilgrimages that all ecotourists should […]
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