Trip report: Peninsula Malaysia and Borneo (September-October 2011)

January 14, 2012

Guided by Sam Woods. This was a custom tour. This private tour was arranged by John and Karen with some very specific objectives in mind: to pick up three possible new families for them, as part of a wider quest to see all of the world’s bird families, to rack up as many lifebirds for [...]

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Trip report: Australia Photo Safari (Sep 2011)

January 5, 2012

Guided by Iain Campbell and Keith Barnes. Report by Sue Post. Please click the link below for the trip report and photos. The list is given separately below. Click this link to view the full report in PDF format (12 MB) List of birds and other wildlife seen on the tour: CASSOWARIES: Casuariidae Southern Cassowary [...]

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Trip report: Philippines (Mar 2011)

January 5, 2012

Guided by Keith Barnes.  This was a custom tour. This tour took the form of three distinct stages, concentrating on the three most accessible, endemic rich islands in the sprawling Philippine archipelago, that encompasses more than 7,000 islands in total. We began first on Mindanao, the second largest and most southerly of the main islands, [...]

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Trip report: Galapagos: Endemics Cruise (Nov 2011)

December 31, 2011

Guided by Sam Woods. “The natural history of these islands is eminently curious, and well deserves our attention.” (Charles Darwin 1845) The Galápagos Islands lie in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles (965km) off the coast of Ecuador, but are a world away from anywhere. This trip holds wide appeal: for the avid world lister it [...]

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The Jungle Babbler, Tropical Birding’s Newsletter: December 2011

December 30, 2011

Welcome to the latest issue of the Jungle Babbler, the TROPICAL BIRDING newsletter, your way to keep up to date with all the goings on at Tropical Birding. In this issue: What’s New? (Upcoming TB Events, What’s Changed at TB? (new tours, new cruises), Latest TB Developments (tour availability) Tour Summaries: Malaysia, Australia, Namibia & [...]

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Trip report: Madagascar, The Eighth Continent (Nov 2010) by Tropical Birding

December 24, 2011

Guided by Ken Behrens. This was an extremely successful trip, one of the best that Tropical Birding has ever run. We racked up 199 species of birds, including every Malagasy endemic and near-endemic save a handful of extremely rare and range-restricted species that are not targeted by this tour. We saw every member of three [...]

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Trip report: Northern India (December 2011) by Tropical Birding

December 23, 2011

Guided by Ken Behrens.  This was a set departure tour. This trip continues to be one of our very best and most popular. This year, even without the ‘tiger extension’, we scored a delectable set of 367 birds, plus 17 mammals. Some of the stars included a massive Great Bittern, a pair of Ibisbill, great [...]

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Trip report: Ecuador, the Andes Introtour and High Andes Extension(Nov 2011) by Tropical Birding

December 22, 2011

Guided by Andrés Vásquez. I think that the reason why this tour is the most popular trip we do is very simple: there is hardly any other tour that in only 6 days can take you birding in 2 famous EBA´s (Chocó and Central Andes), over 6 well marked ecosystems, a variation of altitude of [...]

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Trip report: Ethiopia, Birding the Roof of Africa (Nov 2011) by Tropical Birding

December 21, 2011

Guided by Ken Behrens. Custom tour similar to set departure This was a highly successful trip both in terms of endemics and total number of birds encountered. We found all the Ethiopia and Abyssinian endemics save the scarce Linneated Pytilia and, of course, Nechisar Nightjar. We racked up 565 species of birds, another excellent total [...]

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Trip report: New Zealand 2011 by Tropical Birding

December 19, 2011

Guided by Nick Leseberg. The indigenous tribes of New Zealand, the Maori, call their land ‘Aotearoa’, or ‘Long White Cloud’. On this particular trip we were given ample reminder of why this is so, as we spent the trip variously dodging rain, snow, wind and sometimes hail! Indeed on any trip to New Zealand, you [...]

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