If Mork from Ork descended to Earth in a spaceship, I’d put my money on him checking out Manu before he headed to Boulder, Colorado, to hook up with Mindy and have a hit 70s sitcom. Why Manu? Because there’s a whole lot of life there! I’m sure you’ve all read several times about how [...]

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Do you know someone who would make a great Field Guide? We are currently looking for a few outstanding guide prospects to join the Field Guides international community, and we’ve added a new page to our website with information about the attributes we seek in prospective guides. Check it out, and if you know of [...]

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John Coons is migrating north for June and July — specifically to join Jay VanderGaast to co-lead our Yukon to the Arctic Ocean tour (June 5-14) and Chris Benesh to co-lead Newfoundland & Nova Scotia (July 2-12). If you’ve traveled with the “Kingfisher” (What, you didn’t know John’s bird name? No way!) before, well, you [...]

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Folks, we have a wonderful new guide we’d like you to meet. His name is Marcelo Padua and he’s from Belem — that big Brazilian city at the mouth of the Amazon River. Marcelo has been leading his own birding tours in Brazil for a few years now and has gained a remarkable knowledge of [...]

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Schedule update! Rose Ann Rowlett will now be joining George Armistead to co-lead our upcoming Hawaii tour, March 21-31. Rose Ann and George fans, here’s your chance to enjoy a great birding visit to the Aloha State in the company of the powerhouse team of the ‘Grebe’ and the ‘Owl.’ Visit our tour page for [...]

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I have now birded or relaxed in, and have led Field Guides tours through, most of the enormous Republic of Brazil, and there remain just a handful of Brazil’s nearly 1900 species of birds I haven’t yet met in the field (aarrrgh, I missed the only Kinglet Calyptura in a hundred years by just a [...]

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I’ve never forgotten my first morning “on the veranda” at Trinidad’s Asa Wright Nature Centre. The cacophony of sound and whirlwind of color—and the near-arm’s length proximity of many of the birds—create a spectacle matched by few other places in the world.

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We’re delighted to announce that our very own John Rowlett is to be honored at this year’s American Birding Association’s convention (Apr 27-May 3) in Corpus Christi on the Texas coast with the Roger Tory Peterson Award! The award is given for a lifetime of achievement in promoting the cause of birding — a perfect [...]

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