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CLASSIC PAPUA NEW GUINEA TOUR REPORT 2024

New Guinea being the second largest island on Earth with a great coverage of pristine primary forest and known from several natural history programmes on TV especially David Attenborough’s great interpretation is one of the most sought-after birding locations for most birders. Having the extraordinary Bird-of-paradise is just the icing on the cake when it […]

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TURKEY, GEORGIA & CYPRUS TOUR REPORT 2024

Our second ‘Grand Tour’ of Asia Minor this year was one with several ups and downs, quite often literally! Especially our visit to the southeastern parts of Turkey were a great success, with amazing views of specialties such as Desert Finch, Pale Rockfinch, Iraq Babbler, Pallid Scops Owl, See-see Partridge, Caspian Snowcock, Radde’s Accentor, Red-wattled […]

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ULTIMATE SUMATRA TOUR REPORT 2024

Our 2024 tour to Sumatra was a brilliant success! A great and enthusiastic group, largely good weather, and, other than the odd re-arranged flight, good logistics, all helped, allowing us to find nearly all of our target birds. Enggano and Nias were not part of our itinerary, and of the remaining endemics, we saw all […]

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INDONESIA’S LESSER SUNDAS TOUR REPORT 2024

Birdquest’s highly successful tours to the Nusa Tenggara region of Indonesia was continued this year with all possible endemic bird species seen. We recorded 234 bird species during a 19-day long tour while visiting the islands of Sumba, Timor, Rote, Flores and Komodo, while no major flight delays or logistic issues occurred making the tour […]

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INDIA’S MONSOON SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2024

This was Birdquest’s first tour to India during the summer monsoon, a time when several special birds, pretty much impossible, or at least far more difficult, to locate in the rest of the year, become visible and much easier to see. During our ten-day tour, with two days in the Pune-Mumbai area and eight days […]

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Combine the Banda Sea and Southern Moluccas islands in 2025 and get US$1000 off!

It is not often you get a special treat like this, but anyone booking both our endemic-rich Remote Islands of the Banda Sea and our Southern Moluccas tours in September/October 2025 will receive a discount of US$1000 or equivalent! Don’t lose out! Our Southern Moluccas tour in September visits Ambon, the Kai Islands, Buru, Seram […]

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Combine Atlantic Odyssey with the Antarctic Peninsula and get a 10% discount over and above the special Birdquest Atlantic Odyssey benefits!

In 2026 you can combine the famous Atlantic Odyssey (one of the world’s two ‘Ultimate Pelagics’) with a short (10 days) Antarctic Peninsula expedition cruise. If you book both trips you qualify for a 10% discount off the total cost of the two expeditions! A huge saving! In March the chances for Emperor Penguin in […]

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The end of the road for the famous Western Pacific Odyssey?

Heritage Expeditions has told us that they are not planning to operate the Western Pacific Odyssey again, so the spring 2025 expedition looks like being the last of its kind! This epic journey from New Zealand to Japan has become famous over the years for being one of the world’s ‘Ultimate Pelagics’. It is also […]

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SAUDI ARABIA TOUR REPORT 2024

This was Birdquest’s first tour to Saudi Arabia, a part of the world that has only recently been opened to tourists and currently, with Yemen not accessible to visitors, the only country where you can see the SW Arabian endemics and near-endemics in complete safety in a rapidly modernizing land. Our very successful nine-day tour […]

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NORTHEAST INDIA TOUR REPORT 2024

This comprehensive, bird-filled 23-day tour of NE India was a highly successful exploration of the remote northeast corner of the Indian subcontinent seeing almost 500 species of birds, including most of the region’s specialties and other highly desired bird species. The Himalayan section of the trip amongst the snowy heights of the Dirang Region produced […]

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