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CLASSIC COSTA RICA TOUR REPORT 2024
Once again, we managed to surpass our former record of species for this tour, with the impressive amount of 630 species recorded, but even more impressive was that we managed to see 618 species. Also, we added seven species to our cumulative Costa Rican list which included Red Knot, Northern Potoo, Lance-tailed Manakin, MacGillivray’s Warbler, […]
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MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2024
Our latest, new and improved Malay Peninsula tour itinerary included Singapore for the first time. This sunny tropical island certainly came up trumps, delivering memorable encounters with Red-legged Crake, both Blue-winged and Mangrove Pittas, and the critically endangered Straw-headed Bulbul. Amongst the other highlights there were Banded Woodpecker, Long-tailed Parakeet, and Copper-throated Sunbird. As one […]
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GUYANA & SURINAME TOUR REPORT 2024
As one of the most exciting tours to South America, Guyana and Suriname offer the best the Guianan shield has to offer. It is a strikingly diverse region with a high level of endemicity, comprehensively covered by one of the more endlessly interesting tours one is ever likely to take. As is said for every […]
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CAMBODIA & LAOS TOUR REPORT 2024
2024 saw another highly successful tour of these two South-East Asian neighbours. A tough pre-tour extension to Mount Aural in Cambodia reaped rewards with superb close views of Chestnut-headed Partridge and Cambodian Laughingthrush. The cream of the crop during the main tour in Cambodia were a fantastic Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo (at a new site for […]
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NORTHEAST BRAZIL TOUR REPORT 2024
Northeast Brazil offers a combination of rare endemics, endangered species and some of the most iconic birds in South America. The tour has a wide variety of habitats in three different biomes being the dry Caatinga, the Cerrado and the diverse Atlantic Forest. Also, we visited different localities of the Pernambuco endemism centre, where some […]
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COLOMBIA WITH A DIFFERENCE TOUR REPORT 2024
We started the tour with an early departure from Bogota, so as to avoid the traffic and journeyed north through the Cundinamarca and Boyacá altiplanos, along the spine of the Eastern Andes. This area has been heavily populated for many years and natural habitat was scarce, though we did manage a few of the more […]
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CLASSIC COLOMBIA TOUR REPORT 2024
Our Colombian adventure began high in the Paramos, which straddle the eastern Andes above Bogota. Our first morning was spent in the breathtaking Sumapaz National Park, where we searched for a mouthwatering list of endemics and near endemics, among the Espeletia and bamboo dominated uplands. Perhaps the main target here is the near-endemic Green-bearded Helmetcrest. […]
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SOUTHERN ECUADOR TOUR REPORT 2024
A different trip to Southern Ecuador this year, due to the unexpected circumstances but my country still offered another highly enjoyable, fruitful and amazing tour! 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 […]
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SOUTHERN MEXICO TOUR REPORT 2024
With the sad closure of the famous El Triunfo reserve since the covid pandemic, we changed our classic Southern Mexico itinerary, which now includes the Yucatan Peninsula instead of the state of Chiapas. We were a bit unlucky weatherwise this year, as most of Central Mexico had been suffering from a serious drought for an […]
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JAPAN IN WINTER TOUR REPORT 2024
A great trip and a very successful tour, it is always a pleasure to return to Japan, this being my twentieth visit. There is such a strong field of great birds it is almost impossible to agree on a ‘Bird-of-the-trip’: Red-crowned Crane, Steller’s Sea Eagle, Ural and Blakiston’s Fish Owls, and Pallas’s Rosefinches on Hokkaido, […]
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