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News & Reports
Explore the latest news and birding tour reports from Birdquest.
IBERIAN LYNX & BIRDS OF SOUTHERN SPAIN TOUR REPORT 2023
Our third Iberian Lynx & Birds of Southern Spain tour was a greatly successful tour and provided a great break in the dreary winter many birders experience in north-western Europe. Spain is always lovely to visit, with its kind people, wonderful food and great infrastructure, and Andujar is a highlight of the country with amazing […]
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SOUTHERN ECUADOR TOUR REPORT 2023
Another highly enjoyable, fruitful and hitch-free tour was completed under the expert leadership of Juan Carlos Calvachi. 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 continued to the eastern slopes and the sub-tropical […]
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SENEGAL TOUR REPORT 2023
Our seventh Senegal ‘only’ tour (earlier tours combining with either The Gambia or Cape Verde) continued the run of success we have previously enjoyed and firmly establishes the country as a premier West African birding destination for those wishing to see some very special Sahelian endemics. Senegal is less than six hours away from Brussels […]
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THAILAND TOUR REPORT 2023
This years’ Birdquest to Thailand was a welcome return to one of the best birding destinations on the continent of Asia, featuring a spicy blend of forests, mountains and wetlands filled with great birds. We began on the coast where we saw Spoon-billed Sandpipers, White-faced and Malaysian Plovers, Asian Dowitchers, Nordmann’s Greenshanks, and Great Knot […]
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TEXAS TOUR REPORT 2022
The Birdquest 2022 tour of the Lone Star State marked our first post-pandemic lockdown visit and produced a respectable total, despite facing some challenges including the opposite weather required to produce a good migration spectacle on the Gulf Coast, as well as the ongoing drought in the south and southwest of the state, which had […]
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TANZANIA’S EASTERN ARC & PEMBA TOUR REPORT 2022
Tanzania is a fascinating country for birds and wildlife! Our tour is a very special one with most of the birding time spent in African mountain forests. Although birding in such forests can be challenging, seeing some of the rarest birds of Africa is definitely a great and rewarding experience! The aim of this unique […]
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PERU’S IQUITOS & CUSCO ANDES TOUR REPORT 2022
Peru is a one of those magical places where birders must return! This is not surprising, as over 1850 bird species have been recorded, of which 128 are endemic and several repeated visits are needed to see the special birds of this amazingly diverse and spectacular country. Most of the endemics are found in the […]
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AMAZONIAN ECUADOR TOUR REPORT 2022
This brand-new tour offers the ultimate Amazonian birding experience, in some of the most pristine Amazonian regions of Ecuador, in search of some of the hardest Amazon species. This tour has a fine selection of Amazonian lowland species, as well as Amazonian foothill species, with several species that occur only in this region, and other […]
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SOUTH AFRICA TOUR REPORT 2022
The Ultimate South Africa tour 2022 turned out to be a major success, with 514 species recorded over a period of three weeks, crisscrossing the vast expanse of South Africa, and birding the great variety of habitats found here. From the scenic mountains of the Cape Fynbos biome to the magical Afromontane forests of the […]
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CLASSIC WEST PAPUA TOUR REPORT 2022
Our tour to the remarkable forests of West Papua was once again a great success, much to my delight as it was the first time I’d had the privilege to lead the tour. We recorded in excess of 380 species of bird, but more importantly, we recorded a high proportion of the available specialities and […]
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