News & Reports

NORTHEAST INDIA TOUR REPORT 2022

FINLAND & ARCTIC NORWAY TOUR REPORT 2022

“This year’s Birdquest tour to Finland and Norway was again a great success. Not only did we find the great majority of target birds, but we were able to see them against the stunning backdrop of the “Land of the midnight sun” with its seemingly endless boreal forests, countless lakes, wet bogs, mighty rivers, partly snow-covered fells and […]

SHOEBILLS & GORILLAS OF UGANDA TOUR REPORT 2022

“Uganda is famously quoted as being the ‘Pearl of Africa’ and although neither Henry Morton Stanley nor Winston Churchill had birders and ecotourists in mind when they awarded the country this title, it is most certainly an appropriate one! Uganda is surely an essential destination for any world-travelling birdwatcher as it is home to the incredible Shoebill, a […]

GABON’S LOANGO NATIONAL PARK TOUR REPORT 2022

“This was a new tour to the Birdquest repertoire with the aim of seeing one of Africa’s ultimate birds, the much-wanted African River Martin. This is a nomadic and unpredictable species that breeds in coastal Gabon but apparently not in exactly the same places every year making seeing it a little bit of a challenge! The tour was […]

ULTIMATE UGANDA TOUR REPORT 2022

REMOTE ISLANDS OF THE BANDA SEA, INDONESIA TOUR REPORT 2022

Our Banda Sea adventure in September-October 2022 was a great success, turning up all the currently-recognized endemic bird species of the islands, whatever the taxonomic authority followed. Not only did we do very well with the endemics, but we also had a great selection of seabirds including such rarities as Aleutian Tern, Red-tailed Tropicbird, Matsudaira’s […]

BEST OF GHANA TOUR REPORT 2022

SOCOTRA & ABD AL-KURI TOUR REPORT 2022

This was our fourth visit to the remote island of Socotra, positioned far off the Horn of Africa in the Indian Ocean. But this time we added an exciting extra in the form of an expedition to even more remote Abd al-Kuri island, nearer to the African mainland and home to the endemic Abd al-Kuri […]

A Banda Sea Epic Adventure

Our Banda Sea expedition this September-October was a stunning success! It was one of the most successful Banda Sea cruises ever, with an unsurpassed number of specialities recorded. Not only did we see every single endemic possible in Tanimbar and the islands visited during Banda Sea cruises (by both IOC taxonomy and the taxonomy used […]

TURKEY, GEORGIA & CYPRUS TOUR REPORT 2022