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Explore the latest news and birding tour reports from Birdquest.
SOUTH INDIA & ANDAMAN ISLANDS TOUR REPORT 2022
Over 100 Indian Subcontinent endemics and near-endemics were seen, out of a trip total of 314 species, during our latest tour of these popular South Asian destinations, including a clean-sweep on South Andaman. Numerous highlights included Painted Bush Quail, Sri Lanka Frogmouth, Nilgiri and Andaman Wood Pigeons, Malabar Imperial Pigeon, Andaman Crake, Andaman Serpent-Eagle, Andaman […]
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BIRDS & TIGERS OF NORTHERN INDIA TOUR REPORT 2023
This year’s ‘Birds and Tigers of Northern India’ tour again proved a great success with a feast of avian and mammalian delights. We followed the classic itinerary taking us from bird filled wetlands to semi-desert scrub, from dry savanna woodland and arable farmland to the verdant forested slopes and rushing torrents of the Himalayan foothills. […]
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JUAN FERNÁNDEZ ISLANDS EXPEDITION – A unique adventure in late 2024
Getting to Robinson Crusoe (formerly Más a Tierra) in the Juan Fernández archipelago is difficult enough, depending on an expensive and occasional air service (with a risk of delays during periods with low cloud), but getting to the far more remote Alejandro Selkirk (formerly Más Afuera) is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity! In late 2024, Birdquest has […]
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CLASSIC UGANDA TOUR REPORT 2023
Uganda is famously quoted as being the ‘Pearl of Africa’ and although neither Henry Morton Stanley nor Winston Churchill had birders and ecotourists in mind when they awarded the country this title, it is most certainly an appropriate one! Uganda is surely an essential destination for any world-travelling birdwatcher as it is home to the […]
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ALASKA TOUR REPORT 2023
Our 2023 tour to the land of the midnight sun, including Dutch Harbor, St. Paul Island, Nome, Kenai, the Denali Highway and Barrow was thankfully completed without a single hitch or cancellation. A late spring affected a number of our target species but did not stop us from seeing a fantastic selection of birds and […]
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MONGOLIA TOUR REPORT 2023
Mongolia is an amazing country with fantastic scenery and some really special birds! It is also a vast country with very few human inhabitants: a visit to this true wilderness is an unforgettable birding experience! Our tour is usually run at the end of May when we have a good chance to observe the enigmatic […]
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JAPAN SPECIALITIES TOUR REPORT 2023
A welcome return for this tour, it being four years since our last visit at this season. We enjoyed a wonderful jour-ney around the islands despite meeting Typhoon Marwa head-on in Okinawa, which rudely cancelled our visit to Ishigakijima and Iriomote. We were able to find all the endemics and expected specialities on our route, […]
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VIETNAM TOUR REPORT 2023
It was the second time Birdquest completed this itinerary in Vietnam, seeing as many as possible of the specialties of the country. Our 2023 tour did a good job collecting endemic and range-restricted birds in the country and recorded a total of 450 bird species complemented with some unforgettable mammal sightings. Starting in the lowland […]
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WESTERN SAHARA TOUR REPORT 2023
This year’s tour through the breath-taking landscapes of Western Sahara was a great success with the key specialities seen and delivered a wonderful taste of the spectacular migration passerines perform every year, all the way from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. We enjoyed great views of key birds like Golden Nightjar, Sudan Golden Sparrow, West African […]
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CUBA TOUR REPORT 2023
Cuba is a great destination for birdwatching, as it is the largest Caribbean Island, and contains the largest number of birds recorded of any of the Caribbean islands, plus it has 29 endemic species of which 27 can be reliably seen. During our trip we managed to see 176 species, including these 27 endemic species […]
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