_Tour Updates

Two spots have just opened up on guide Terry McEneaney's Best of the Pacific Northwest trip, Feb 4-8. Here's your short winter birding escape to this lovely area on our tour starting out of Seattle.

If you're considering our Honduras: Land of the Emeralds tour, Mar 3-11 with guide Jesse Fagan, you can extend your stay at the end of the tour with a deal from the lovely Lodge at Pico Bonito: a bonus two nights for the price of one! Contact our office for details.

We've moved our Southeast Ontario: Winter Birds tour to Feb 21-25, 2012 since winter has been so late in coming. There is currently 1 space still open with Peter Burke and we will make a final decision on whether or not to run the tour on or before Jan 23.

With guide Marcelo Padua's original tour full, we've added a second departure of Jaguar Spotting: Pantanal & Garden of the Amazon for Jul 7-18. See our web page for all the details. Oh, and lest you think this is just a mammal-watching tour, check out some of Marcelo's great pics from our September recent photos gallery for just a few of the fabulous birds to be seen, or have a look at his 2011 triplist of more than 300 species. Birding ahead!

_New Slideshows (Oman/UAE, N. Peru)

We have two great new slideshows: George Armistead assembled his pics from his recent Oman & the UAE tour into a captioned slideshow, as did Rose Ann Rowlett from photos she and co-leader Richard Webster brought back from their recent Northern Peru: Endemics Galore trip. Both are a great way to pass a few minutes among beautiful birds and landscapes and to learn more about these two exciting birding destinations. The links are:

_Traveling alone? Just one space open!

We have just one space still open on the following trips, some coming up very soon if you've just gotta get away birding!
Northeast Brazil (Part II): Jan 28-Feb 13 with Bret Whitney & Marcelo Padua
Southeast Ontario: Winter Birds: Feb 21-25, 2012 with Peter Burke
Costa Rica: Mar 17-Apr 1 with Megan Crewe & local guide

_Our January newsletter's coming up...

Our January newsletter has just mailed...watch for it in your mailbox in the next couple of weeks. Inside you'll find articles on Alaska's nesting seabirds, our long and short Northern Peru tours, traveling in Asia with  Dave Stejskal, Jesse Fagan's affinity for canasteros, a short piece on Royal Flycatcher, an invitation to our Wild & Wonderful Suriname tour, some guide updates, and four pages of Fresh from the Field...all coming your way soon!

Our spring and early summer tour availability includes the following:
Hawaii: Apr 1-10 with George Armistead (4 spaces)
Colorado Grouse I: Apr 4-14 with Chris Benesh
Bhutan: Apr 6-27 with Richard Webster
Texas's Big Bend & Hill Country: Apr 21-30 with Chris Benesh
Dominican Republic II: Apr 28-May 5 with Jesse Fagan
Uganda: May 17-Jun 7 with Phil Gregory (3 spaces)
Arizona II: May 18-27 with Dave Stejskal
Virginias' Warblers: May 30-Jun 3 with John Rowlett & John Coons
Alaska I (Part I): May 30-Jun 7 with Chris Benesh & Jesse Fagan
Central Peruvian Endemics: Jun 1-17 with Dan Lane & Willy Perez
Alaska II (Part I): Jun 6-14 with George Armistead & Megan Crewe
Montane Ecuador I: Jun 8-17 with Mitch Lysinger
Spitsbergen cruise: Jun 23-Jul 5 with John Coons
Papua New Guinea I: Jun 27-Jul 15 with Phil Gregory (1 space)
Sacha Lodge, Ecuador III: Jun 29-Jul 8 with Mitch Lysinger (2 spaces)
Newfoundland & Nova Scotia: Jun 29-Jul 9 with Chris Benesh
Peru's Magnetic North: Jun 30-Jul 10 with John Rowlett & Pepe Rojas

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