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January 2014 e-mailing
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| Happy New Year,
fellow birders! This month marks the beginning of our 30th year of Field Guides tours! We can hardly believe it, and we're excited about our upcoming 2014 tour schedule and look forward to seeing you in the field. Some tours are full, others are filling. Are you perhaps interested in
Alaska,
Hawaii,
Cambodia,
Thailand,
Greece,
Sacha (Ecuador), or
Honduras this year? There's still space on our second Alaska tour and Hawaii, one space each on Greece, Thailand II, and Cambodia, two on Sacha II, and we need just one more to make Honduras an official "go" with Jesse Fagan, our FG Central America expert. See our February-July open spaces below, and enjoy our January Recent Photos gallery (including Brazil, Peru, Chile, Australia, Madagascar, South Africa, and Alaska, with samples at left). Oh, and there are cool new triplists linked below. All the best for the New Year! |
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 The word is out: Bret's guiding a special 100th anniversary tour in the footsteps of Teddy Roosevelt and Candido Rondon in a wilderness area packed with newly described species. Dates are April 11-24 (yes, this April) and there are two spaces still open. If you're interested in joining the tour you have till January 20 to put your name in the hat for a drawing to follow in Teddy's wake; we'll send confirmation and an invoice immediately on January 21. Read the full details on our Brazil's Rio Roosevelt: Birding the River of Doubt page, or contact Peggy Watson at our office to add your name to the list. It's going to be an amazing trip, and we're guessing Teddy himself would join us if he could -- we know his spirit will be right there!
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 Is there some great experience on the Field Guides Peru team? Well, let's see...Dan Lane's a co-author of the field guide you'll be using (Birds of Peru) and has been going to Peru on expeditions and tours since the 1990s; Jesse Fagan's been based in Peru for the past couple of years and is almost a limeño; Richard Webster's been guiding our Northern Peru: Endemics Galore tour since 1997 (not to mention various other Peru itineraries); and Pepe Rojas is moving back with his wife, Abby, from Northern California to his native Peru (where he has guided birders for many years and is now a keystone in our country program). They're heading afield in Peru again this year, and these tours still have space available:
Machu Picchu & Abra Malaga I: Jul 4-13 with Dan Lane
Mountains of Manu, Peru: Jul 12-27 with Dan Lane
Peru's Magnetic North: Spatuletails, Owlet Lodge & More: Jul 31-Aug 11 with Dan Lane & Dave Stejskal
Peruvian Rainforests of the Tambopata: Oct 4-17 with Pepe Rojas
Northern Peru: Endemics Galore: Nov 2-22 with Richard Webster & Pepe Rojas
Holiday in Peru: Iquitos: Dec 20-31 with Pepe Rojas & Dan Lane
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| We noted in our December e-mailing that guides Dan Lane and Jesse Fagan, together with Peruvian colleague Fernando Angulo, were competing as Team Field Guides in Peru's World Birding Rally. And we're delighted to report that they captured first prize with 457 species! It was a real squeaker, with two other talented teams coming in tied for a very close second place. Besides all the birds and glory, or course, they were also hoping to raise some funds for a conservation project supporting the Marvelous Spatuletail, and thanks to some great contributions, they did, to the tune of almost $1700. Jesse and Dan report that it was a lot of fun and that they enjoyed not only the great competition but the wonderful camaraderie and spirit of the various teams. Read Jesse's post and see pics of the team on our news page.
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Here's a list of other February to July tours with one or more spaces still open. Contact our office to help you get planning! (In the image above: Ancient Murrelet)
FEBRUARY to JULY
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 ( 2 spaces)
Honduras:
Land of the Emeralds: Feb 22-Mar 2 with Jesse Fagan
Cambodia: Feb 22-Mar 7 with Phil Gregory ( 1 space)
Thailand
II: Feb 22-Mar 15 with Dave Stejskal ( 1 space; limited to 6)
Ethiopia: Apr 4-24 with Terry Stevenson & Richard Webster ( 1 space)
Hawaii: Apr 5-14 with Dan Lane ( 4 spaces)
Belize: Apr 6-12 with Peter Burke ( 1 space)
Birding Plus Scotland: Apr 18-May 1 with John Rowlett & Hugh Buck
Texas Coast Migration Spectacle II: Apr 19-25 with John Coons ( 1 space)
Classical Greece: Apr 25-May 9 with Megan Edwards Crewe ( 1 space)
Alta Floresta & the Northern Pantanal, Brazil: Apr 26-May 12 with Marcelo Padua ( 1 space)
Birding Plus Do the Charleston! Spring in South Carolina: Apr 27-May 4 with Jesse Fagan ( 4 spaces)
China: Manchuria & the Tibetan Plateau: May 5-26 with Dave Stejskal & Jesper Hornskov ( 2 spaces)
Arizona: Birding the Border I: May 9-18 with John Coons ( 1 space)
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
Uganda: May 22-Jun 12 with Phil Gregory & Jesse Fagan ( 3 spaces)
Alaska (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 ( 4 spaces)
Borneo II: Jun 8-25 with Dave Stejskal ( 1 space)
Galapagos I: Jun 14-24 with Willy Perez ( 2 spaces)
Amazonian Ecuador: Sacha Lodge II: Jun 27-Jul 6 with Willy Perez ( 1 space)
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 ( 2 spaces)
Kenya Highlights: Jul 2-20 with Terry Stevenson
Galapagos II: Jul 5-15 with Megan Edwards Crewe ( 4 spaces)
Papua New Guinea: Jul 6-24 with Jay VanderGaast ( 1 space)
Arizona's Second Spring I: Jul 26-Aug 4 with John Coons
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Recently posted itineraries for upcoming tours
Recently posted itineraries include
Spring in Cape May (May 18-24 with Megan Edwards Crewe & Lena Senko),
Peru's Magnetic North: Spatuletails, Owlet Lodge & More (Jul 31-Aug 11 with Dan Lane & Dave Stejskal).
Recently
posted triplists
Recently posted triplists
are out for
Australia (Part II) with John Coons,
Bolivia's Avian Riches with Dan Lane,
Slice of California with Chris Benesh,
Spectacular Southeast Brazil (both parts) with Bret Whitney & Chris Benesh (Part I) or Bret Whitney & Marcelo Padua (Part II),
Jaguar Spotting: Pantanal & Garden of the Amazon II with Marcelo Padua,
Brazil's Rio Roosevelt: Birding the River of Doubt with Bret Whitney,
Chile with Peter Burke & Ricardo Matus,
Barrow: Search for Ross's Gull with Dave Stejskal & Pepe Rojas,
Arizona's Second Spring II with Chris Benesh,
Northern Peru: Endemics Galore with Richard Webster & Pepe Rojas,
South Africa with Terry Stevenson & Joe Grosel.
Cheat sheet
All photos at left
are from our January recent photos. Enjoy!
- Schlegel's Asity, Madagascar, by Randy Siebert
- Tototoroka Scops-Owl, Madagascar, by Randy Siebert
- Long-tailed Ground-Roller, Madagascar, by Randy Siebert
- Magellanic Woodpecker, Chile, by Greg Griffith
- Flightless Steamer-Duck, Chile, by George Sims
- Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher, Madagascar, by Phil Gregory
- Ross's Gull, Barrow, Alaska, by Dave Stejskal
- Bateleur, South Africa, by John Catto
- Wonga Pigeon, Australia, by Jan Shaw
- Plains-wanderer, Australia, by Jan Shaw
- Regent Bowerbird, Australia, by Rob Colwell
- White-tailed Jay, Northern Peru, by Brian Stech
- Purple-collared Woodstar, Northern Peru, by Brian Stech
- Rufous Potoo, Brazil, by Marcelo Padua
- Wire-tailed Manakin, Brazil, by Marcelo Padua
- Pied Puffbird, Brazil, by Bret Whitney
- Guianan Cock-of-the-rock, Brazil, by Bret Whitney
- Gould's Toucanet, Brazil, by Marcelo Padua
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