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December 2013 e-mailing
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| Hello again,
fellow birders! On the docket for December: Dan and Jesse in Peru on the World Birding Rally, two holiday tours with just one space each (Iquitos, Peru: Canopy Walkways & Ancient Forests: Dec 21-Jan 1 and
Holiday
in Honduras: The Lodge at Pico Bonito: Dec 29-Jan 3), and news posts about our Northern Central America tours and Honduras. Check out our December Recent Photos gallery (including Australia, New Guinea, Louisiana, Brazil, and Chile, with samples at left), and upcoming spaces January-June,
fresh itineraries, and recently posted triplists (with more great pics and video), all below. We won't have another emailing till after the New Year, and with our 2014 schedule just around the corner here's hoping you've had a great year and wishing you all the best for the one coming! |
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| As we write this, guides Dan Lane and Jesse Fagan are on a week-long adventure to Peru. Together with Peruvian colleague Fernando Angulo, they are Team Field Guides in the World Birding Rally! They're scouring the rainforests of southeastern Peru for a week, then will wrap up their run at famed Machu Picchu. These guys are aiming for first place, of course, but also hoping to raise some funds for a conservation project supporting the Marvelous Spatuletail. Check out all the details on our news page post. Follow the team's progress on our news page or Facebook page, and if you're up for it, support them with a pledge!
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 We've posted a review of our tours to Northern Central America by guide Jesse Fagan -- from Guatemala and Honduras to Belize -- to give you a sense of how these three great destinations fit together and the highlights of each. And did you know that Jesse is hard at work on a new field guide to the region? Guide Peter Burke is doing some of the illustrations, and the post includes his lovely trio of Rufous-naped Wrens. |
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| Jesse reports: "Many birders ask me what their first Neotropical birding destination should be. My suggestion? I think Honduras makes an ideal starting point: 738 species of birds, 23 regional endemics, and 1 country endemic (the very local Honduran Emerald). And it offers birding in spectacular natural areas!" Jesse has just posted about it in an informative piece on our news page -- check it out. His next Honduras: Land of the Emeralds tour is just around the corner (Feb 22-Mar 2).
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Here's a list of our January to June tours with one or more spaces still open. Contact our office to help you get planning! (In the image above, two icons: Shoebill and Mountain Gorilla!)
JANUARY to JUNE
Yellowstone
in Winter: Jan 17-25 with Terry & Karen McEneaney ( 4 spaces)
Costa
Rica: Birding the Edges: Part II - Jan 18-27 with Jay VanderGaast ( 3 spaces)
Nowhere
but Northeast Brazil: Part II: Jan 29-Feb 15 with Bret Whitney & Pepe Rojas ( 2 spaces)
Guyana: Feb 1-12 with Megan Edwards Crewe & local guide ( 2 spaces)
Colombia:
Cauca Valley, Western & Central Andes: Feb 8-24 with Richard Webster ( 2 spaces)
Amazonian
Ecuador: Sacha Lodge II: Feb 14-23 with Willy Perez ( 4 spaces)
Honduras:
Land of the Emeralds: Feb 22-Mar 2 with Jesse Fagan
Cambodia: Feb 22-Mar 7 with Phil Gregory ( 1 space)
Jewels
of Ecuador II: Feb 22-Mar 11 with Willy Perez
Thailand
II: Feb 22-Mar 15 with Dave Stejskal & Chris Benesh
Cloudforests
of El Triunfo, Mexico: The Horned Guan & More: Mar 8-17 with Jay VanderGaast
Colombia: Santa Marta Escape: Mar 15-23 with Richard Webster ( 1 space)
Ghana: Mar 22-Apr 8 with Phil Gregory ( 2 spaces)
Puerto
Rico: Mar 23-29 with Eric Hynes & Lena Senko ( 2 spaces)
Ethiopia: Apr 4-24 with Terry Stevenson & Richard Webster ( 2 spaces)
Hawaii: Apr 5-14 with Dan Lane ( 4 spaces)
Belize: Apr 6-12 with Peter Burke ( 4 spaces)
Birding Plus Scotland: Apr 18-May 1 with John Rowlett & Hugh Buck
Texas's Big Bend & Hill Country: Apr 19-28 with Chris Benesh & Lena Senko ( 1 space)
Classical Greece: Apr 25-May 9 with Megan Edwards Crewe ( 4 spaces)
Alta Floresta & the Northern Pantanal, Brazil: Apr 26-May 12 with Marcelo Padua ( 4 spaces)
Birding Plus Do the Charleston! Spring in South Carolina: Apr 27-May 4 with Jesse Fagan ( 3 spaces)
China: Manchuria & the Tibetan Plateau: May 5-26 with Dave Stejskal & Jesper Hornskov ( 1 space)
Arizona: Birding the Border I: May 9-18 with John Coons ( 1 space)
Point Pelee Migration Spectacle: May 10-17 with Peter Burke ( 2 spaces)
Arizona: Birding the Border II: May 16-25 with Chris Benesh ( 1 space)
Spring in Cape May: May 18-24 with Megan Edwards Crewe & Lena Senko ( 4 spaces)
Uganda: May 22-Jun 12 with Phil Gregory & Jesse Fagan ( 3 spaces)
Alaska: first tour - Part I May 30-Jun 7, Part II Jun 6-16 with Chris Benesh & Pepe Rojas; second tour - Part I Jun 6-14, Part II Jun 13-23 with Megan Edwards Crewe & Lena Senko
Northern Ecuador: Jun 5-15 with Willy Perez
Borneo II: Jun 8-25 with Dave Stejskal ( 1 space)
Galapagos I: Jun 14-24 with Willy Perez ( 2 spaces)
Newfoundland & Nova Scotia: Jun 27-Jul 7 with Chris Benesh & Lena Senko
The Norwegian Arctic: Spitsbergen & Svalbard Archipelago: Jun 29-Jul 11 with John Coons
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Recently posted itineraries for upcoming tours
Recently posted itineraries include
Guyana (Feb 1-12 with Megan Edwards Crewe & local guide),
Alaska I (Part I: May 30-Jun 7; Part II: Jun 6-16, with Chris Benesh & Pepe Rojas),
Alaska II (Part I: Jun 6-14; Part II: Jun 13-23, with Megan Edwards Crewe & Lena Senko),
Mountains of Manu, Peru (Jul 12-27 with Dan Lane),
Jaguar Spotting: Pantanal & Garden of the Amazon (Aug 3-14 with Marcelo Padua),
Kenya Safari Spectacular (Aug 29-Sep 25 with Terry Stevenson),
Morocco (Sep 8-25 with Jesse Fagan).
Cheat sheet
All photos at left
are from our December recent photos. Enjoy!
- Rainbow Lorikeet, Australia, by Merrill Lester
- Ferruginous Antbird, Serra dos Tucanos, by George Nixon
- Metallic Starling, Australia, by Robert McNab
- Guide Ricardo Matus, Chile, by Peter Burke
- Beautiful Firetail, Australia, by Jan Shaw
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Louisiana, by Tony Quezon
- Riding the combine, Louisiana, by Ann Haverstock
- Budgerigars, Australia, by Paul Davies
- Gilt-edged Tanager, Serra dos Tucanos, by George Nixon
- Clapper Rail, Louisiana, by Rick Woodruff
- Superb Fairywren, Australia, by Jan Shaw
- Masked Lapwing, Australia, by Jan Shaw
- Birding picnic, Chile, by Peter Burke
- Eastern Yellow Robin, Australia, by Robert McNab
- Peter Burke & alpaca, Chile
- Salvin's Albatross, Chile, by Peter Burke
- Plovercrest, Serra dos Tucanos, by George Nixon
- Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle, Chile, by Peter Burke
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