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SOUTH INDIA & ANDAMAN ISLANDS TOUR REPORT 2025
A splendid tour around Tamil Nadu, Kerala and South Andaman, where with the help of expert local guide Jijo Matthews, we found 47 of the endemic birds of the region, plus an additional 23 near-endemics. This included 19 of the 20 available Andaman endemics, with selected highlights being Andaman Scops Owl, Andaman Woodpigeon, Andaman Crake, […]
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ANGOLA TOUR REPORT 2025
Angola is an amazingly diverse but much neglected country by birders! Due to the long civil war (1975-2002) it had a no-go reputation, and this is changing only very slowly. However, Birdquest has been running tours as soon as it was possible to go and things have changed a lot! We used to do an […]
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ANTARCTICA: IN SEARCH OF THE EMPEROR PENGUIN TOUR REPORT 2025
Emperor Penguin must be one of the ultimate birds, right? It is large at 1.3m tall, spectacular-looking and usually requires a massive effort to see it in the world’s last true wilderness, Antarctica. In a nutshell, although we did not make it to the colony at Snow Hill (there remains less than a 50% chance […]
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OMAN & BAHRAIN TOUR REPORT 2025
Birdquest’s sixteenth tour of Oman & Bahrain once again proved a great success recording a respectable 237 taxa of which 48 were Birdquest ‘diamond’ species (regional specialities) and included a number of interesting migrants and seabirds. In addition to the special birds Oman has to offer, the country, with its large numbers of migrating and […]
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AUSTRALIA’S NORTHERN TERRITORY TOUR REPORT 2025
Getting off the plane at the Alice Springs airport the weather was remarkably pleasant which was a great start to the tour. Two participants had arrived early and we met up at 6pm to head out nearby for dinner before getting back into our rooms just in time for the remaining two participants to arrive […]
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ISLANDS OF THE SULAWESI SEAS TOUR REPORT 2025
Our third tour of the far-flung Sulawesi satellite-islands was not without its significant hardships and challenges, but our intrepid team of birders reaped the rewards, with a minimum 106 Sulawesi Sub-region endemics amongst our total of around 234 species (taxonomy-dependant). Some of the avian highlights during this unique tour were: Sula Megapode, Matsudaira’s Storm Petrel, […]
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LESSER ANTILLES & TRINIDAD TOUR REPORT 2025
It had been a while since we visited the great band of Lesser Antilles islands, but we once again virtually cleaned up on all the islands, and there were quite a few islands on our itinerary! Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados and Grenada were the ten islands we visited […]
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NAMIBIA & BOTSWANA TOUR REPORT 2025
Namibia has amazing wildlife! It is also one of those ‘easy to travel’ countries which is also famous for its hospitality and good infrastructure. There is a great selection of birds, and it is a classic destination for birders in the southern part of Africa! Our tour was designed to see the main specialties in […]
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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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