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At Lifer Nature Tours we truly love birding… The more owls you get on a trip the happier we are! In our last trip in Costa Rica the Crested Owl was not at the usual day time perch so we did not gave up and after a bit of extra effort we visited the right habitat at right time and Bingo! We found it with its crest up actively hunting. Just
Amazon is truly a special place. As we are about to start that awesome time of the year where our groups visit the Ecuadorian Amazon we will like to highlight one species that always stands out as its genus preceded its reputation: the Amazonian Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus ornatus). Despite being the easiest of the three umbrellabirds it is still an awesome umbrellabird with two main features: first a white iris and second extendable white shafts right above its forehead. Pretty cool ha? Always a highlight and an expected bird for our lucky groups that will be soon visiting the amazon rainforest of Ecuador.
Escape the cold weather next January and come join us in Costa Rica! Along one of the most experienced local bird guides of Costa Rica, Fito Downs, we have created another amazing adventure birdwatching in Costa Rica. Send us a DM or write in the comments and we will be happy to provide further details.
A trip to Costa Rica with a maximum of only 6 participants has three spots left for this upcoming fall 2024! This is a truly exceptional opportunity to visit Costa Rica by the hand of bird guide Juan Diego Vargas (.with.juand ). It includes overnight at the famous Arenal Volcano area, the legendary cloud forest of Monteverde, the bird-rich Pacific coast, the vast Caribbean lowlands and the spectacular wetlands of Caño Negro. Find more details in the link in Bio or visit lifertours.com and explore the “Spectacular Costa Rica” itinerary!
“Birds in flight” was the focus of our last bird photo trip in Costa Rica and it was guided by professional bird photographer .with.juand … from Ringed Kingfisher to Resplendent Quetzal in flight. It was full of cool images. Send us a message to book your space for the upcoming trips or to arrange your private trip
What a great time to photograph Resplendent Quetzals in Costa Rica right now! From in-flight nesting photo sessions to foraging at really close distance (like the one in the photo taken in our current photo tour). A total of 6 different individuals were taken in really mouth-watering portraits at three different locations. If having a nice picture of this bird is in your plans please feel free to send a message. We will be happy to make it happen or advise accordingly.
Earth is the only place where this Purple-throated Mountaingem occurs… let’s take better care of it folks! 😉
Trogon duo from the hotel grounds on current Private Birding Escape lead by and the fun continues…
**Ok, this is NOT a stuffed toy** On current target trip one of the very few and selected species our client needed was the elusive Striped Owl… fortunately the breeding pair at is back and doing pretty good.
Early mornings every day, late nights looking for owls, lots of patience, psychologists, humorists, taxonomists… overall friends! Our bird guides are the center piece of our success. Thank you to all tour guides out there! Gracias.
Hey birders ‼️ due a cancellation one spot is open for two people in double room on a unique Costa Rica Adventure! This is a trip lead by the one and only .blankenship from East West Birding Tours and our local guide .with.juand How about that? The best season in Costa Rica with the best guides? Send a message to .blankenship or follow the link in Bio for more details. It is going to be a birding blast!
For much more laughing and birding/bird photography this upcoming 2024! Without YOU it won’t be possible. Thank you and see you soon… in the neotropics. .with.juand
Not all hummingbirds visit feeders but with some knowledge and patience you can find them! Here some tips on that:
Hummingbirds in Costa Rica! This birdy country might be small but there’s a huge number of birds, hummingbirds included. Despite only being as big as West Virginia, 53 hummingbird species have been seen in Costa Rica. Yes, really. That many! Three are rare vagrants and one, the Guanacaste Hummingb...
Happy World Tourism Day! Thank you for traveling.
The green of Resplendent Quetzal is just another level of green…
There is very few other manakins as unmistakable as the Pin-tailed Manakin! This beauty is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil, where we get photos of him often while running our tours there.
Our recent private bird-photo trip had been fun and productive with 367 species reported so far and some awesome moments like this eye-level Black-collared Hawk in Caño Negro wetlands.
Any cotinga day is a good day, particularly when we are talking of the endemic Turquoise Cotinga (Cotinga ridgwayi) that bird guide found for our happy clients while on their first leg of their “birding-photo” trip down in southern Costa Rica.
Lifer’s Field Guide is about to start a private “birding-photo” trip in South Pacific Costa Rica. These type of trips focus on finding a good diversity of the best birds (from a birdwatching perspective) while also considering the variable of getting the best possible photos of all those cool birds. Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) is of course high on the list of birds to look for and we have in mind a number of locations to stop by and give it a good try. Would you like to join these type of trips? Send us a message and let’s start planning your 2024.
Santa Marta Mountain is truly a unique place with one of the world’s highest rates of endemic bird species… come see them by yourself with our expeditions along with Indiana Audubon
After 17 days in Brazil our brave team is finally getting to an end and what better way than with a Jaguar swimming across the Cuiba river. Huge thanks to our brave leader who lead the flock impeccably well
How many of you will rather be birding in the high canopy of the amazon rainforest today?
Our lucky group started the day 150 feet above ground in the Ecuadorian amazon. One of the most biodiverse places on earth and been there at eye-level with rarest and nicest of all their creatures is a mind-blowing experience
Closing a wonderful weekend of making new friends, catching up with birding pals and admiring beautiful birds here at the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival. Lifer Nature Tours was happy to attend and bring some the finest guides of the neotrpics to the festival: from Guatemala and .with.juand from Costa Rica!
Starting another “photo-birding trip”. These trips are based on our customers getting awesome photos but with special focus on diversity of wild birds instead of long hours at multiple flash set-ups or macro with captive snakes and frogs. A lot of fun for our bird guides, this time .with.juand is “on the road again”
Red, yellow and blue over a green background… the colors we see during our tours are unreal! Scarlet Macaw posing well in Costa Rica.
Manakins are on fire! Up to four different species are right now on full display every day and with the right itinerary you can see them all dancing and get awesome images. Here the Long-tailed Manakins dancing as seen during our last custom-made bird photo tour! Feel free to ask for your own custom-made itinerary. We will be happy to help.
An adventure gets to an end today and we must honored yet another trip with awesome close and personal views of Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo, long scope-views of Sharpbill, eye-level views of Unspotted Saw-whet Owl, and of course a male White-crested Coquette perched and posing… what a trip. Huge thanks to bird guides .with.juand and and driver Ricardo who did an awesome job as usual.
Happy Valentines from this couple of Torrent Ducks having a good time in the fast-flowing rivers of Ecuador.
Yesterday was special for our current group touring in Costa Rica… a hummingbird day: 12 species in one morning including a male Black-crested Coquette perched at eye-level and the marvelous Snowcap. You gotta love those little hummers.
As some of us watch House Geckos in the ceiling of our houses others like our lucky clients now touring the Galapagos Islands got this awesome reptile: San Cristóbal Giant-Tortoise. Big, endemic and ancestral-looking.
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Join birders out in the field in 13 countries - from roosting shorebirds in Australia, to the dawn chorus in Central America, and everything in between! Hermann, Andrés & José in Colombia Carlos in Panamá Juan Diego, Anthony & Emanuel in Costa Rica Heidi and Josué in Guatemala Clay, Ian, Jenna, Drew and Cullen in the USA Yanina in Spain Tim & Penny in England John in South Africa Jonathan in Israel Surya in India Lester in Sri Lanka Jason and Gary in Malaysia Iain in Australia Excited? Don't miss out! Rufous-throated Tanager image (c) Glenn Bartley We will be broadcasting LIVE on our SWAROVSKI OPTIK Birding page and this event page. * ++++ *Our LIVE broadcasts are always free of charge. There is no need to open any third-party links to watch them. Simply go to our SWAROVSKI OPTIK Birding page and find the LIVE video there
Joining some wonderful birders live from 15 locations in the USA, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Spain, Scotland, England, Israel, India, Sri Lanka and Taiwan and celebrating the spirit of Global Big Day!
What is better than a Scaled Pigeon? Well, Juan Diego is on a tour right now and found that slow moving mammals are a magnet for wildlife lovers! What better way to celebrate the #worldwildlifeday !!! #birddifferently
From the highlands to the lowlands, the show will be an incredible spectacle of color, discovery and fun. Expert bird guides and ornithologists will show you the best that the regions have to offer. 📸 Rainbow-bearded Thornbill by Glenn Bartley
Únese a los observadores de aves que estarán en pleno trabajo de campo compartiendo sus aves favoritas. Disfrute de 60 minutos de aves salvajes y fascinantes historias con nosotros. 📸 El colibrí insigne (Panterpe insignis) de Glenn Bartley
You can’t get more elegant than a male Elegant Euphonia… this eye-candy was one of the over 300 species the current tour: “Costa Rica Birding Comprehensive” elegantly guided by @chiroxiphia has nailed so far… and still some lucky customers are heading to the Osa Peninsula where the excellent local guide @sandi._.henry “the “sharpest eyes of South Pacific” will be waiting. Yes, you can be elegantly envious of them. #birddifferently #eleganteuphonia #birdingcostarica #lifernaturetours
As Juan Diego Vargas is finishing today another target birding trip in Costa Rica, he just showed not 1 but 17 individuals of Maroon-chested Ground-Doves (Paraclaravis mondetoura) to our lucky hardcore birders from Chicago. So we wanted to bring back this video he made almost 5 months ago when he first went to scout the site for this mythical ground-dove. Good news is: THEY ARE STILL THERE! Check the video and if you happen to be in the country, don’t hesitate and go check them too!
Coming to you live from 18 locations in the USA, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Scotland, England, Spain, South Africa, India and Sri Lanka. A selection of birders will be using their phones and spotting scopes to stream live side-by-side to share some of the magic of their favorite birds with you. Join in the excitement of exploring the glorious world of birds. This post will automatically turn live when the show starts, or find us on the SWAROVSKI OPTIK Birding page #gobirding #onewithnature #seetheunseen #fortheloveofnature 📸 Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan image (c) Glenn Bartley http://www.glennbartley.com/
July is great hummingbird season in Costa Rica… just in one bird feeder the current tour lead by @bird.with.juand photographed 10 species! Come join us in the next tour just this September!
Black-crowned Tityra is not only a beautiful bird but also the only member of the genus with no red on face. . . . . #lifertours #birddifferently #best_birds_of_world #birdscostarica #birding_lounge #birds_adored #birds_illife #birds_perfection #naturelovers #birdlovers #best_birds_planet
Tested from were the terrains are harder, the weather is more challenging and the flycatchers look all the same: the tropics. The latest release by SWAROVSKI Optik: the 8x32 NL Pure Binoculars tested by Costa Rican birder Juan Diego Vargas.
Find out about our latest innovation as we go birding in the tropics. The tropics are the most biodiverse regions on the planet, filled with a spectacle of colour and sounds. It'll be the evening in Sri Lanka and India, midday in Africa and in the dawn chorus in Latin America. With some luck, we'll see Andean Cock-of-the-Rocks, Lilac-breasted Rollers and Indian Spotted Eagles all at the same time! 5:30pm India, 2pm CET, 8am US Eastern, 7am Colombia, 5am US Pacific
¿Alguna vez ha observado aves de forma virtual? Únese a los observadores de aves que estarán en pleno trabajo de campo compartiendo sus aves favoritas. Visitaremos Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panamá y cinco lugares en España. Disfrute de 90 minutos de aves salvajes y fascinantes historias con nosotros. 7:30 Costa Rica/Ciudad de México, 8:30 Colombia/Ecuador/Panamá, 9:30 Nueva York, 10:30 Argentina y 14:30 España #gobirding #seetheunseen #fortheloveofnature #birding #digiscoping *Nuestras emisiones EN DIRECTO son siempre gratuitas. No es necesario abrir ningún enlace de terceros para verlas. En nuestra página de Facebook SWAROVSKI OPTIK Birding encuentra el vídeo EN DIRECTO.
And then this happened on our Live Virtual Tour called: “Rainforest Birds Explained” guided by Juan Diego Vargas . Yes, is not always all about birds. Book your at lifertours.com and experience first hand unique and unrepeatable moments in the new world tropics. Keep enjoying wildlife, just #enjoydifferently
And this was seen LIVE on our new Live Tour “Epic Hotspots: Rancho Naturalista” !!! A male Snowcap and many other interesting tropical birds like Green Thorntail, Golden-hooded Tanager and White-crowned Parrot. Join us in one of the many Live Virtual Tours we offer in our website lifertours.com ... Keep birding, just #birddifferently
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