News & Reports

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

ULTIMATE CENTRAL PERU TOUR REPORT 2022

Central Peru is an area with a complex biogeography, covering a variety of different habitats from coastal deserts, arid scrub forest, paramo vegetation, Polylepis forest, elfin forest, Andean lakes, the altitudinal gradient of the eastern slope of the Andes from cloud forest to the lower elevations of the foothills of the Andes, as well as […]

CLASSIC MADAGASCAR TOUR REPORT 2022

ULTIMATE COSTA RICA TOUR REPORT 2023

Without a doubt our Classic Costa Rica tour proved to be very successful, in terms of specialties where we managed to record 194 diamond birds! Many of these are near-endemics shared with Panama and others with Nicaragua, plus the four endemic species that only occur in Costa Rica. In terms of diversity, the tour was […]

PHILIPPINES OFF-THE-BEATEN-TRACK TOUR REPORT 2023

This itinerary “with a difference” was designed to enable tour participants to see the maximum number of Philippine endemics, supplemental to those that we can see on our Classic Philippines itinerary, during a realistic tour schedule. We certainly succeeded in delivering this package in 2023. Out of a total of around 239 species, we found […]

CLASSIC PHILIPPINES TOUR REPORT 2023

Our latest Classic Tour to the endemic-rich Philippines followed the same format as our previous one in 2020. This year, out of a total of 332 species, we found 168 ‘strict’ endemics (taxonomy-dependant). Highlights amongst this enormous haul of specialities included such mouth-watering megas as: Philippine Duck, Philippine and Palawan Frogmouths, Rough-crested and Scale-feathered Malkohas, […]