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ULTIMATE MADAGASCAR TOUR REPORT 2025
Our Ultimate Madagascar tour began at a troubled time for the country. Demonstrations in the streets of Antananarivo over concerns about water and electricity supplies caused the airport to close. Ultimately the incumbent president fled and peace returned; it seemed to be basically all over in a matter of days. Although initially worrying we saw […]
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EASTERN CHINA TOUR REPORT 2025
Our epic 21-day journey across almost the whole of Eastern China focused on a range of rare Chinese endemics and migrants, and once again proved a great success. The focus of the early part of the tour is achieving good views of specialities such as the critically endangered Blue-crowned Laughingthrush, the superb Cabot’s Tragopan and […]
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA TOUR REPORT 2025
Western Australia, the largest Australian state, is diverse region with a wide range of habitats and a rich fauna with a high degree of endemism. The tour gave us an unrivalled opportunity to cover many key birding areas of the state and a varied range of habitats, as well as the offshore territory of Christmas […]
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SULAWESI, MOROTAI & HALMAHERA TOUR REPORT 2025
This year, with a tour that varies from year to year due to weather, we were able to find most of our targets, seeing a total of 318 taxa including at least 130 endemics. In fact the only hardship we encountered was dealing with an avifauna where the taxonomy is up in the air and […]
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SENEGAL TOUR REPORT 2025
Our ninth Senegal ‘only’ tour (earlier tours combining with either The Gambia or Cape Verde) continued the run of success we have previously enjoyed and even further establishes the country as perhaps thé premier West African birding destination for those wishing to see some very special Sahelian endemics. Senegal is less than six hours away […]
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IBERIAN LYNX & BIRDS OF SOUTHERN SPAIN TOUR REPORT 2025
Our fourth Iberian Lynx & Birds of Southern Spain tour was another great success. It provides a wonderful break in the dreary winter many birders experience in the northern hemisphere. Spain is always lovely to visit, with its kind people, wonderful food and great infrastructure, and Andújar is definitely one of the best areas with […]
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JAVA & BALI TOUR REPORT 2025
Our Java and Bali Tour was once again a wonderful sampler of this beautiful corner of Indonesia. We traversed the length and sometimes the breadth of Java, taking in forest clad volcanos, vibrant wetlands and several stunning National Parks. We also visited the beautiful island of Bali and undertook an exploratory extension to Kalimantan in […]
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ANTARCTICA, FALKLAND ISLANDS & SOUTH GEORGIA TOUR REPORT 2024
Rarely do words come so short to describe a tour as they do with trying to describe the expedition cruise to Antarctica, the Falkland Islands & South Georgia. You can read our previous reports and this one, but to truly understand how amazing it is, you should just go and join us. Even with expectations […]
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CLASSIC WEST PAPUA TOUR REPORT 2025
West Papua is, without doubt, one of the most exciting destinations in our repertoire, with a long list of mouthwatering birds that really set the pulses racing. It is also one of the more challenging tours, with generally shy birds, deteriorating habitats, tricky terrain, and troublesome logistics, not least the access difficulties at some sites. […]
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TANZANIA’S EASTERN ARC & PEMBA TOUR REPORT 2025
The different isolated mountain ranges of central eastern Tanzania hold an excellent selection of endemic and near endemic birds. The main goal of this Tanzania with a difference tour was trying to see as many as possible of these and we sure managed. Not too far away from the popular and so very different northern […]
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