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SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA TOUR REPORT 2025

Our group of Birdquesters assembled as part of a much larger group of people that were to board the Heritage Adventurer to take part in Heritage Expedition’s “Birding Down Under” cruise over a period of two days in Queenstown, New Zealand. The benefit of being part of a BirdQuest subset was that our group size […]

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BRAZIL’S EASTERN AMAZONIA TOUR REPORT 2025

Our Brazil Eastern Amazon tour was highly successful, recording a great species diversity and a high proportion of regional specialties. We visited multiple localities across the vast state of Pará, a rich yet highly threatened region of the Brazilian Amazon Basin, exploring a variety of habitats across different Amazonian centers of endemism within distinct interfluvial […]

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SOUTHERN & CENTRAL ARGENTINA TOUR REPORT 2025

Southern and Central Argentina 2025 was another success in over thirty years of Birdquest tours to this area. In Cordoba, central Argentina, we picked off the main targets one by one including Dinelli’s Doradito, Dot-winged Crake, Spot-winged Falconet, Red-tailed Comet, Salinas Monjita, Black-legged Seriema, Cordoba and Olrog’s Cinclodes and Chaco Sparrow. Then, in the Pampas, […]

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CHILE TOUR REPORT 2025

This year’s Chile tour was a blinder with, as usual, all of the endemics including the critically endangered Chilean Woodstar and all eight species of tapaculo from the giant Moustached Turca to the skulking White-throated Tapaculo and elusive huet-huets. Waders featured strongly with walk away views of the stunning Diademed Sandpiper-Plover, enigmatic Magellanic Plover, superb […]

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CLASSIC PAPUA NEW GUINEA (I) TOUR REPORT 2025

Papua New Guinea provides one of the most testing yet rewarding experience for any birder with an interest in global birding! The unique avifauna is perhaps best known for the amazing birds-of-paradise and any birder remotely interested in birding abroad will dream about visiting this very special island to see these stunning birds which were […]

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ULTIMATE NORTHEAST BRAZIL TOUR REPORT 2025

Northeast Brazil is one of those absolutely classic tour destinations! It has a great number of species including a good number of mouthwatering stars, and at the same time harbours a number of critically endangered habitats and species that sadly may not be with us for too much longer. There are one or two success […]

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COLOMBIA’S SOUTHERN ANDES, MITÚ & INÍRIDA TOUR REPORT 2025

A crazily dancing male Tawny-tufted Toucanet, a perfectly performing Grey-bellied Antbird, a pair of showy Black-chested Fruiteaters, a glorious male Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock and a Shakira-imitating Hooded Antpitta were the undisputed highlights of the main part of this Colombia with a difference tour. The pre-extension to the Inírida area produced marvels like the recently-described Orinoco Spinetail, […]

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REMOTE ISLANDS OF THE BANDA SEA TOUR REPORT 2025

This was our third visit to the Banda Sea in the last few years, and was once again a great success, as we notched up great looks at just about all of our hoped-for bird specialties and some wonderful sea mammals. We achieved this while living ‘the Life of Riley’, as we were looked after […]

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SRI LANKA TOUR REPORT 2025

What is not to like about Sri Lanka? Despite its relatively small size, the isolation from the rest of the Indian Subcontinent has resulted in an impressive list of 35 endemics. In addition, there is a fine selection of regional endemics shared only with southern India. Add to that the winter migrants, some of them […]

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GABON TOUR REPORT 2025

The forests of Gabon hold a tantalizing variety of mouth-watering birds and on our recent tour we managed to observe an excellent selection of some of the most highly sought species of the African continent. Birding the African rainforests is usually hard work, but eventually the prizes will show themselves. The Bird of the Tour […]

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