This exciting trip is one of our most diverse and popular, recording more than 600 species of birds including 50 hummingbirds! With our other departures fully booked, we’ve added an August 29 tour with Jay VanderGaast as guide.  Come discover the riches of Ecuador on this broad sampler of the montane birds of the Andes [...]

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Our May e-mailing is posted! Included are links to our May recent photos gallery (lots of great new pics), 4 fresh slideshows (2 from Ecuador routes, 1 from the Bahamas, 1 from the Lesser Antilles), plus info about a brand new Brazil itinerary for December 2010, a revision to the Peru field guide, our late [...]

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We’ve recently posted or updated the following detailed itineraries for upcoming Field Guides tours, all in PDF file format. With more than 130 departures in our annual schedule, there’s much to choose from! For late 2010 NEW ZEALAND (Nov 11-29, 2010) [tour page] BACKCOUNTRY BRAZIL (Dec 8-17, 2010) [tour page] For early 2011 SOUTHWESTERN ECUADOR [...]

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We’ve added the following triplists from recent Field Guides tours, all in PDF file format, in the past few weeks. Enjoy reading some of our recent reports from the field! ARIZONA NIGHTBIRDS & MORE — May 6-10, 2010 TEXAS’S BIG BEND & HILL COUNTRY — Apr 24 – May 3, 2010 TEXAS HILL COUNTRY — [...]

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Dates are Dec. 8-17, and we can’t say it much better than: “Bird two of Brazil’s remote national parks in a daring escape from Old Man Winter that will leave you flying high until springtime.” Bret and Marcelo will be guiding this new departure just added to our 2010 schedule to beautiful and birdy Canastra [...]

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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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