News & Reports from Birdquest Birding Tours Worldwide

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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BANGLADESH EXPEDITION REPORT 2024

Our first expedition to Bangladesh and its wonderful Sundarbans was an outstanding success. Not only did we enjoy no fewer than three great and prolonged encounters with Masked Finfoot in our five days in the Sundarbans (perhaps a record) but we also had three encounters with the very rare and sought-after White-eared Night Heron (a […]

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SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE TOUR REPORT 2024

Well, this seemed like a bit of a whirlwind trip that flashed by in a moment! It was pretty hard work at times, but we were well looked after, had great local support and surprisingly good cuisine. And thankfully we had a very friendly and determined group that were prepared to put in the hard […]

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INDONESIA’S SOUTHERN & CENTRAL MOLUCCAS TOUR REPORT 2023

The tour visiting the Southern and Central Moluccas is one of the most endemic-rich ones put together in the region as it is visiting numerous islands. In 2023 we did our best to find the specialties of the following islands: Ambon, Haruku, Seram, Boano, Kai Kecil, Kai Besar with the extension reaching Yamdena (Tanimbars). The […]

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CLASSIC PHILIPPINES TOUR REPORT 2024

The bird of the tour was without a doubt the magnificent Philippine Eagle that showed so very, very well to us on Mount Kitanglad on the island of Mindanao. We had to work (and wait) for it, but eventually one of the world’s most powerful and impressive eagles performed beautifully, both perched and in flight… […]

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CHINA IN WINTER TOUR REPORT 2024

This, our first tour to China since the lifting of the Covid-19 travel restrictions, proved a great, bird filled adventure amongst a diverse selection of habitats and a high number of very special birds. The tour began in the wintry Beijing region from where we travelled to the picturesque Wuyuan area, renowned for its Scaly-sided […]

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SENEGAL TOUR REPORT 2024

Our eighth Senegal ‘only’ tour (earlier tours combining with either The Gambia or Cape Verde) continued the run of success we have previously enjoyed and firmly establishes the country as a premier West African birding destination for those wishing to see some very special Sahelian endemics. Senegal is less than six hours away from Brussels […]

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UNCHARTED PAPUA NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION REPORT 2023

It is hard to know where to start with summarizing this remarkable Birdquest expedition to some of the most remote parts of Papua New Guinea that took place in September and the first few days of October 2023, including Bougainville Island, the Louisiade Islands, the Kokoda Trail and the highlands of New Britain. It was […]

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