Field Guides Birding Tours

Recent Images
(click image for gallery)

Texas
Ghana
Texas
Colorado
Texas
Hawaii
Texas
South Carolina
Colorado
Texas
South Carolina
Thailand
Borneo
Costa Rica
Thailand
Thailand
Panama
Hawaii



June 2014 e-mailing
Hello, birders! With migration, Memorial Day, and multitudinous Field Guides tours operating, May was a busy month. We've got some birding news of interest below, plus our next six months of upcoming tours (from Bolivia, Ecuador's Shiripuno, and Northern Peru to New Caledonia & SE Brazil), combo tour opportunities, an added Cape May II departure, and lots of fresh photos (nearly 100!) in our May Recent Photos gallery (samples at left). Recently posted triplists and fresh itineraries are below for you, too, of course. Good birding!
 
Cool birding news: bird-friendly glass
If you own a house or work in an office with large windows, you know the problem: birds hitting the glass. We're glad to see this news in a recent New York Times article about some ongoing research to help owners and builders alleviate the problem in the future.
Last spaces: one for you...or two?
Are you traveling single or as a couple? We have space open for just one or two on each of these 13 tours, including Arizona and Spitsbergen in June:
Northern Arizona's Canyons & Condor II: Jun 6-11 with John Coons (1)
Spitsbergen & Svalbard Archipelago: Jun 29-Jul 11 with John Coons (1)
Galapagos II: Jul 5-15 with Megan Edwards Crewe (1)
Montane Ecuador: Jul 25-Aug 3 with Mitch Lysinger (2)
Kenya Safari Spectacular: Aug 29-Sep 25 with Terry Stevenson (1)
Ecuador's Rainforest & Andes: Sep 7-21 with Rose Ann Rowlett (2)
Morocco: Sep 8-25 with Jesse Fagan (1)
Jaguar Spotting II: Sep 26-Oct 7 with Marcelo Padua (1)
New Guinea & Australia: Oct 1-19 with Jay VanderGaast (1)
Barrow: Search for Ross's Gull: Oct 3-7 with Eric Hynes (2)
NW Argentina: Oct 15-Nov 2 with Dave Stejskal & Willy Perez (1)
Ireland in Fall: Nov 6-16 with Terry & Karen McEneaney (2)
Madagascar, Mauritius & Reunion: Nov 8-Dec 4 with Phil Gregory (1)
Upcoming tour combinations
Did you know you can combine back-to-back tours with the guides below to extend your birding holiday this year?

April through September Field Guides
open tours

In Australasia: Australia (Part II): Oct 21-Nov 5 (Tasmania Extension to Nov 10) with John Coons & Eric Hynes and New Zealand: Nov 9-27 with Dan Lane

In South Asia: Sri Lanka: Oct 31-Nov 17 with Megan Edwards Crewe and Southern India: Nov 16-Dec 7 with Terry Stevenson
Second fall Cape May tour added
With our Cape May I fall tour fully booked, we've added a second departure to this great migration hotspot. Contact our office if you'd like to hold space.
Cape May Megan's Way II: Oct 7-13 with Megan Edwards Crewe
World Birding Rally report
Rose Ann Rowlett reports on our news page on the FG team's recent fun in Peru, including a day-by-day rundown along with more than 50 photos giving a great sense of the birds and landscapes!
 
April through September Field Guides
open tours
Above: Some familiar faces from our various great upcoming Peru tours. From left, Olive Oropendola, Rufous-crested Coquette, Yellow-throated Tanager, and Johnson's Tody-Flycatcher. Our Jun-Nov tours with more than two spaces still open are listed below. (And our thanks to Dave Stejskal, Marcelo Padua, and Kevin Heffernan for the great pics!)

Alaska Part II Jun 13-23 with Megan Edwards Crewe & Doug Gochfeld (4 spaces)
Machu Picchu & Abra Malaga, Peru I: Jul 4-13 with Dan Lane (4 spaces)
Arizona's Second Spring I: Jul 26-Aug 4 with John Coons (3 spaces)
Peru's Magnetic North: Jul 31-Aug 11 with Dan Lane & Dave Stejskal
Arizona's Second Spring II: Aug 2-11 with Chris Benesh (3 spaces)
New Caledonia, Fiji & Vanuatu: Sep 1-19 with Phil Gregory (4 spaces)
Bolivia's Avian Riches: Sep 6-21 with Dan Lane & Pepe Rojas
Ecuador's Shiripuno Lodge: Sep 26-Oct 5 with Mitch Lysinger & Willy Perez
Australia (Part One): Oct 2-23 with Chris Benesh (4 spaces)
Peruvian Rainforests of the Tambopata: Oct 4-17 with Pepe Rojas
Safari Brazil: The Pantanal & More: Oct 11-26 with Marcelo Padua & Jesse Fagan
Australia (Part Two): Oct 21-Nov 5 with John Coons & Eric Hynes
Chile: Oct 26-Nov 15 with Peter Burke & Ricardo Matus (3 spaces)
Louisiana: Yellow Rails & Crawfish Tails II: Oct 30-Nov 3 with Dan Lane
Spectacular Southeast Brazil (Part I): Oct 31-Nov 16 with Bret Whitney & Jay VanderGaast
Sri Lanka: Oct 31-Nov 17 with Megan Edwards Crewe & local guide
Northern Peru: Endemics Galore: Nov 2-22 with Richard Webster & Pepe Rojas
New Zealand: Nov 9-27 with Dan Lane & local guide
Spectacular Southeastern Brazil (Part II): Nov 14-30 with Bret Whitney & Marcelo Padua
Southern India: Western Ghats Endemics: Nov 16-Dec 7 with Terry Stevenson & local guide
Holiday at San Isidro, Ecuador: Nov 22-Dec 1 with Mitch Lysinger (4 spaces)
 

1-800-728-4953
Click to contact us by e-mail
View tours by: Date -- Guide -- Region

Till next time, from all of us at Field Guides, good birding!

Visit us on Facebook Visit us on Facebook

Recently posted itineraries for upcoming tours
Recently posted itineraries include Holiday in Peru: Iquitos (Dec 20-31 with Pepe Rojas & Dan Lane), Arizona Winter Specialties (Dec 27, 2014-Jan 2, 2015 with Dave Stejskal), Panama's Canopy Lodge (Dec 27, 2014-Jan 3, 2015 with John Rowlett), Holiday in Honduras: The Lodge at Pico Bonito (Dec 29, 2014-Jan 3, 2015 with Jesse Fagan), Yellowstone in Winter (Jan 3-11, 2015 with Terry & Karen McEneaney), Colombia: Bogota, the Magdalena Valley & Santa Marta (Jan 12-28, 2015 with Jesse Fagan), Nowhere but Northeast Brazil (Jan 13-30, 2015 with Bret Whitney & Marcelo Padua; optional Southern Bahia extension to Feb 5), Jewels of Ecuador (Jan 17-Feb 3, 2015 with Willy Perez), Panama's Canopy Tower (I, II, III) (3 departures: Jan 19-25 with John Coons, Feb 8-14 with John Rowlett [optional Canopy Lodge extension from Feb 4], Feb 21-27 with Chris Benesh [optional Canopy Lodge extension from Feb 17]), Panama's Canopy Camp: Darien Lowlands (Jan 24-Feb 1, 2015 with John Coons), Trinidad & Tobago (Jan 30-Feb 8, 2015 with Eric Hynes), Guatemala: Shade-grown Birding (Feb 12-21, 2015 with Jesse Fagan; optional Tikal extension from Feb 8), Northern India (Feb 16-Mar 10, 2015 with Terry Stevenson), Ecuador's Wildsumaco Lodge (Mar 19-29, 2015 with Willy Perez).

Recently posted triplists
Recently posted triplists are out for Borneo I with Rose Ann Rowlett, Cambodia with Phil Gregory, Costa Rica with Megan Edwards Crewe & Jay VanderGaast, Belize with Peter Burke & Lena Senko, Texas Coast Migration Spectacle I with John Coons, Texas's Big Bend & Hill Country with Chris Benesh & Lena Senko, Texas Coast Migration Spectacle II with John Coons, Nowhere But Northeast Brazil (Part II) with Bret Whitney & Pepe Rojas, Hawaii with Dan Lane & Chris Benesh, Birds and Wines of Chile & Argentina with Marcelo Padua, Puerto Rico with Eric Hynes & Lena Senko, Ghana with Phil Gregory, Ethiopia with Terry Stevenson & Richard Webster, Colorado Grouse II with Eric Hynes & Jesse Fagan, Oaxaca with Megan Edwards Crewe & Pepe Rojas.

Cheat sheet
All photos at left are from our May recent photos. Enjoy!

  • Scott's Oriole, Texas, by Don Faulkner
  • Egyptian Plover, Ghana, by Phil Gregory
  • Scarlet Tanager, Texas, by Brooke Miller
  • Greater Prairie-Chicken, Colorado, by Eric Hynes
  • Least Bittern, Texas, by Brooke Miller
  • Apapane, Hawaii, by Tony Quezon
  • Elf Owl, Texas, by Chris Benesh
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler, S. Carolina, by Jesse Fagan
  • Guides Jesse Fagan & Eric Hynes, Colorado
  • Swainson's Warbler, Texas, by Brooke Miller
  • Prothonotary Warbler, S. Carolina, by Jesse Fagan
  • Spotted Wood-Owl (juv.), Thailand, by Dave Stejskal
  • Whiskered Treeswift, Borneo, by Katy Zappala
  • Purple Gallinule, Costa Rica, by Chris DeCilio
  • Mangrove Pitta, Thailand, by Dave Stejskal
  • Kalij Pheasant, Thailand, by Dave Stejskal
  • Great Tinamou, Panama, by Chris Benesh
  • Pacific Golden-Plover, Hawaii, by Tony Quezon