_Added Cape May II: October 7-13 this fall

With her first tour fully booked, Megan is jazzed to guide an extra departure, so we've added a second tour Oct 7-13 to that legendary migration destination, Cape May, New Jersey. All aboard for some get-your-pulse-racing birding in Meegs' backyard. The trip's limited to 8, and there are currently 3 spaces still open to join the fun on Cape May Megan's Way.

_Back in 2013: Newfoundland & Nova Scotia

With some schedule conflicts, we thought we might have to drop our wonderful Newfoundland & Nova Scotia tour for 2013...but it's back! Guide Chris Benesh will be in the lead for this great birding survey of and cool summer escape to the Canadian Maritimes. Dates are Jun 28-Jul 8. From this year's tour: "I have been on trips with Chris before and enjoy his easy style, good leadership, and superior birding skills. I'd absolutely travel with Chris again. The overall experience was excellent!" And this: "I highly recommend this tour as an opportunity to see a part of North America which is quite different -- a mixture of quaint and modern sights and spectacular bird masses."

_On our news page...

Here's a chance to catch up on some recent goings-on on our website. Have some fun by checking out the following posts on our news page:

--An Alaska Birding Wrap-up from our first of two 2012 tours, this one with guides Chris Benesh & Jesse Fagan (two more coming for 2013 if you want to make plans!)

--Some great teaser photos and a description of our upcoming Oct 13-25 Manu Wildlife Center tour to this incredibly bird-rich region of Peru with Dan Lane, who illustrated and co-authored the field guide in which we can check our lifers! There are 4 spaces still open.

--A piece on A Nowhere but Northeast Brazil! experience that'll surely get you itching to grab one or more of those 2013 NE Brazil spaces with Bret and Marcelo under Sep-Jan Openings below. (And did you know you can still get on our Spectacular Southeast Brazil tour with Bret and Marcelo this November if that's a better fit, or take advantage of that one space just opened up on Bret's Brazil's Rio Roosevelt December holiday tour?)

--A Jewels of Ecuador Birding Wrap-up from our second 2012 tour with guides Mitch Lysinger & Willy Perez exploring the numerous birding hotspots of Ecuador's Andes -- and the amazing diversity of flashy birds to be found there.

--A Jaguar Spotting: Pantanal & Garden of the Amazon Birding Wrap-up from one of guide Marcelo Padua's two tours for some seriously cool cats combined with some fantastic Brazilian birding...who doesn't want to do that?

--And last, but not least (and you can see it even if you're not on Facebook) a fun, annotated series of Galapagos photos on our Facebook page by guide Megan Crewe from her recent summer trip, one of three on our schedule in recent months (once on the page, click the "previous" button at top right of the image to continue through all seven of Megan's pics in their posting order).

_2012 Holidays: Something for your wish list

Might one of these perhaps fit the bill?
Trinidad & Tobago: Dec 27- Jan 5 with Megan Crewe (1 space)
Arizona Winter Specialties: Dec 28- Jan 2 with Dave Stejskal,
Ecuador's Wildsumaco Lodge: Dec 28- Jan 7 with Willy Perez (4 spaces)
The Lodge at Pico Bonito, Honduras: Dec 30- Jan 4 with John Coons
Our office can help with all the gift-wrapping, so to speak!

Here's a list of our Sep-Jan tours not mentioned above with one or more spaces still open. Contact our friendly office to help you get planning!

New Caledonia, Fiji & Vanuatu: Sep 3-21 with Phil Gregory (2 spaces)
Bolivia's Avian Riches: Sep 8-23 with Dan Lane & Willy Perez (4 spaces)
Ecuador: Rainforest & Andes: Sep 9-23 with Mitch Lysinger (1 space)
East Africa Highlights: Oct 6-26 with Terry Stevenson (2 spaces)
Sri Lanka: Oct 26-Nov 12 with Megan Crewe (2 spaces)
New Zealand: Oct 27-Nov 14 with Chris Benesh & local guide (3 spaces)
Chile: Oct 28-Nov 17 with Peter Burke & Ricardo Matus
Birding Plus Ireland -- Birds, Traditional Music & Pubs: Nov 1-11 with Terry & Karen McEneaney
Western Mexico: Nov 14-24 with David Mackay
Oman & the UAE: Jan 10-26 with Phil Gregory
Amazonian Ecuador: Sacha Lodge: Jan 11-20 with Willy Perez (2 spaces)
Yellowstone in Winter: Jan 12-20 with Terry & Karen McEneaney
Colombia: Bogota, the Magdalena Valley & Santa Marta: Jan 12-28 with Jesse Fagan (1 space)
Panama's Canopy Tower I: Jan 19-25 with John Coons (3 spaces)
Oaxaca, Mexico: Jan 19-26 with Megan Crewe & Pepe Rojas
Colombia: The Cauca Valley and the Western & Central Andes: Jan 19-Feb 4 with Richard Webster (4 spaces)
Jewels of Ecuador I: Jan 19-Feb 5 with Rose Ann Rowlett & Willy Perez
Northeast Brazil (Part II): Jan 23-Feb 9 with Bret Whitney & Marcelo Padua

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