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SOUTH AFRICA SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2025
What can one say!! The 2025 Birdquest tour to South Africa just keeps producing excellent birds, wildlife and spectacular scenery! The trip delivered again with 519 birds seen and 5 heard only, giving us a total 524 bird species recorded including a 159 Birdquest Diamond Birds (species with restricted ranges rarely encountered on any other […]
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CLASSIC COLOMBIA TOUR REPORT 2026
The 2026 Birdquest Classic Colombia tour was once again a roaring success and perhaps one of the best editions ever. We journeyed the length and breadth of the country taking in the three Andean cordilleras, the distinct Magdalena and Cauca Valleys, the Choco lowlands, the sky island massif of the mighty Santa Marta mountains, the […]
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BANGLADESH & THE SUNDARBANS TOUR REPORT 2026
Our first scheduled tour to Bangladesh, building on the successful 2024 expedition, proved highly rewarding. The tour’s main objective, the critically endangered Masked Finfoot, exceeded all expectations, as during our six-night stay in the Sundarbans, we enjoyed prolonged and excellent views of three different individuals. Another priority species, the elusive White-eared Night Heron, required both […]
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NORTHWEST INDIA TOUR REPORT 2026
A highly successful Birdquest tour across northwestern India followed an extensive route through Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Gujarat before concluding with a short visit to Maharashtra. The main tour recorded 343 bird species and 14 mammals adding 49 species birds and two species of mammal on the short Kashmir extension. More importantly, we observed almost […]
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GUYANA & SURINAME TOUR REPORT 2026
The Guianan shield is surely one of the most diverse and colourful avifaunal regions in South America and this Guyana and Suriname tour offers the best this region has to offer. It is notably diverse with a high level of biological endemicity, which is comprehensively covered in this unfailingly interesting tour. As leaders typically opine, […]
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JAPAN IN WINTER TOUR REPORT 2026
Another great trip to Japan, with superb wildlife encounters from one end to the other. A mouth-watering list of birds led by the stars of Hokkaido: Red-crowned Crane, Steller’s Sea Eagle and Blakiston’s Fish Owls, while on Honshu we saw Copper and Green Pheasants, Solitary Snipe, Japanese Green Woodpecker, Japanese Waxwings and Japanese Accentor, and […]
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SENEGAL TOUR REPORT 2026
Our tenth Senegal ‘only’ tour (earlier tours combining with either The Gambia or Cape Verde) was definitely one of the most successful ones we’ve ran, with an astonishing amount of high-quality birds and a total of 345 species! It builds further on the foundation of Senegal as thé premier West African birding destination, especially for […]
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CAMBODIA & LAOS TOUR REPORT 2026
Cambodia and Laos host a series of very special birds, some (near) endemic, while others with wider ranges are exceedingly rare and/or very hard to find elsewhere. A series of regional endemics further adds to the flavour. The habitats of this tour are diverse, with subtropical mountain, limestone karst and lowland dry forests, riverine environs, […]
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SOUTHWEST CHINA TOUR REPORT 2026
This new tour, one of the first of its kind, focussed significantly on some of China’s most renowned bird hides, in Hainan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. It proved to be a great success, and a remarkable experience, allowing as it did, some incredible views of an amazing and dazzling selection of Chinese, Sino-Himalayan and other […]
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LIBERIA & SIERRA LEONE TOUR REPORT 2026
This was our first tour combining these two West African countries, which offer an excellent suite of localized Upper Guinea endemics including a few that are difficult to see outside of these countries! Being a first attempt, a few teething problems were inevitable, and we certainly had our share, but we managed to overcome them, […]
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