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We just finished our northern Peru Custom very successful trip, we we saw a bunch wonderful, exciting and endemic specie...
28/01/2025

We just finished our northern Peru Custom very successful trip, we we saw a bunch wonderful, exciting and endemic species like this Johnson's Tody-Flycatcher, White-chinned Sapphire and the endemic cute Ochre-fronted Antpitta. Come and join us in our future trips. Jose

Third bunch of photos from our China Photo Tour.
28/01/2025

Third bunch of photos from our China Photo Tour.

People often ask what is the best place to go in Africa? The common answers are often Tanzania or Kenya due to the Big G...
27/01/2025

People often ask what is the best place to go in Africa? The common answers are often Tanzania or Kenya due to the Big Game and East Africa having such a huge reputation through tv documentaries. However, for me, and many other TB guides, South Africa deserves at least equal billing (https://www.tropicalbirding.com/africasouthafricafairestcapetokruger ). It too has the Big Game (the Big 5 are regularly seen in Kruger for example), plus a more varied set of habitats, and a mid-boggling variety of birds, including specialties and endemics in the Cape area in particular, which is also home to penguins! And who would not want to see a sugarbird! Therefore, if you want to see Africa flex its muscles, and show you a remarkable amount of habitats, birds, large animals, and scenery on one single birding tour, then check out our South Africa: Fairest Cape to Kruger tour, which still has spaces remaining and will be confirmed with just 1 more booking....

Birdlife in the Clouds (Ecuador): A male Black-capped Tanager contemplates joining the feeding horde at the Tandayapa Bi...
27/01/2025

Birdlife in the Clouds (Ecuador): A male Black-capped Tanager contemplates joining the feeding horde at the Tandayapa Bird Lodge feeders in the cloud forest. Also in attendance at the time were, Red-headed Barbets, Toucan Barbets, Blue-winged Mountain-Tanagers, and Flame-rumped, Golden and Golden-naped Tanagers. Crimson-rumped Toucanet and Rufous Motmot were both waiting in the wings to take over the feeders once they were hungry again!

I just finished up seeing all the endemic birds in Jamaica (Report here: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/_files/ugd/5f26...
27/01/2025

I just finished up seeing all the endemic birds in Jamaica (Report here:https://www.tropicalbirding.com/_files/ugd/5f2632_9c81cb1eb3ed43bf8bf732efed4804a6.pdf ), and sampling both the best coffee in the country (the world famous Blue Mountain Coffee), and the the best jerk food there (at the birthplace of this cooking style)! You are still welcome to join the next Jamaica tour we are running in April 2025 (https://www.tropicalbirding.com/caribbeanjamaica ), which is a confirmed tour with more spaces still available - Sam

There has been a recent renaming of certain large parrots, which are, once again, being called "Amazons" again (they wer...
25/01/2025

There has been a recent renaming of certain large parrots, which are, once again, being called "Amazons" again (they were previously called this for many years before that name was unceremoniously dumped for simply "parrot"). I am welcoming back this change with open arms after seeing one of Jamaica's endemic amazons recently in Kingston. I give you the well-named Yellow-billed Amazon an endemic to Jamaica - Sam

THERE ARE STILL SPACES REMAINING ON THE APRIL JAMAICA DEPARTURE: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/caribbeanjamaica

After a couple of hours of nervous waiting inside the cold restaurant of Washi No Yado in Rausu, Japan, our group got wa...
25/01/2025

After a couple of hours of nervous waiting inside the cold restaurant of Washi No Yado in Rausu, Japan, our group got was deligted to see the World largest owl species, Blakiston's Fish-Owl. This will certainly be a serious candidate for bird of the trip but it has strong competition with other birds seen today like Red-crowned Cranes and Steller's Sea Eagles!!! If you want to face this difficult choise, it is a no-brainer booking our next Japan In Winter tour here: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/asiajapanwinterbirdingonice

Andres Vasquez

Here is our first bunch of photos from our China Photo Tour.You can't miss this tour.
25/01/2025

Here is our first bunch of photos from our China Photo Tour.
You can't miss this tour.

Rufous-throated Solitaire from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. This is both a beautiful bird and a brilliant songster, wi...
23/01/2025

Rufous-throated Solitaire from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. This is both a beautiful bird and a brilliant songster, with one of the most iconic voices of the mountain forests of the Caribbean - Sam

A few tropicbirds (white-tailed), one more tody (Jamaican-pictured here), and another Red Stripe beer, and I am all done...
22/01/2025

A few tropicbirds (white-tailed), one more tody (Jamaican-pictured here), and another Red Stripe beer, and I am all done with my latest Caribbean adventure in Jamaica, bar picking up a final few bags of Blue Mountain coffee for the folks back home. Our next tour runs in April 2025 - Sam

We nailed the "Mountain Witch" (A.K. A. Crested Quail-Dove), at a feeding station today in Jamaica. Best. Views. Ever. -...
21/01/2025

We nailed the "Mountain Witch" (A.K. A. Crested Quail-Dove), at a feeding station today in Jamaica. Best. Views. Ever. - Sam

Australia truly is... The Land of the Parrots!
18/01/2025

Australia truly is... The Land of the Parrots!

Charley Hesse and I are about to kick off the main portion of our Japan in Winter birding tour (https://www.tropicalbird...
18/01/2025

Charley Hesse and I are about to kick off the main portion of our Japan in Winter birding tour (https://www.tropicalbirding.com/asiajapanwinterbirdingonice) which promises to be another for the books. I had a short pre-tour birding “warm up” today visiting Sakatagaike Park just north of the international airport of Narita. Here I got the closest I have ever been to the gorgeous Baikal Teal. The angle on the photo was a little difficult on these bird but nevertheless, it gives you a good idea of its beauty.

Andres Vasquez N

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Plains-wanderer was the undisputed bird of the trip on my recent Eastern Australia custom tour. Click on the link below to watch my 30 minute video trip report. https://youtu.be/gAJhfz_opXw Charley

Ayuwat just sent us this update from the Borneo BwC (Birding with a camera) trip and check out what's at the lodge dining room. Barred Eagle-Owl....boom!

Keith discovers just how tough it can be to see a quokka on an Enigmatic Wildlife tour in Australia.

We had some wonderful mammal sightings on my recent Borneo birding tour, including several orangutans. We enjoyed watching this young one clambering about in the top of a tree. Charley Hesse

One of the highlights from our recent Borneo birding tour wasn't even a bird but a mammal. This Sunda Leopard Cat put on quite a show. Charley

a Guide's birthday present away from home
a Guide's birthday present away from home

It is simply “cold” to spend a birthday working without being able to share it with family and loved ones, but if it should be like this every year, I would like it to be like it was today with two incredible gifts from nature that came to me at dawn and dusk respectively. I woke up early in search of a Giant Anteater that made me walk long distances and almost get stuck with the car in open termite fields. The afternoon ended with the meeting of a family of Jaguars (mother and two cubs) that were calm and playful along the sandy islands and banks of the Pixaim River. I advise you to watch this video I made today on a big screen!!! Enjoy!!! Andres Vasquez

Macaw Trunk in Ecuador
Macaw Trunk in Ecuador

This is one of the spectacles you can have during our AMAZING AMAZON TOUR to be ran in December this year. I am for now pencilled to run this great week of pristine Amazon birding at the end of the year!!! Join me to have a great time exploring one of the most diverse ecosystems of the entire planet where you will be at some point literally surrounded by hundreds of macaws!!! Take advantage of the ongoing discounts on this tour. Link in the first comment Andres Vasquez

In order to visit the lowland Choco rainforest in San Cipriano, Colombia, we need to use the nicely designed Brujita, an improvised transportation mechanism that runs with an adapted motorbike pushing through the semi-abandoned train tracks this wooden platform that holds chairs for the passengers. The birds on the video are Bicolored Antbird, White-flanked Abtwren, Black-breasted Puffbird, Tooth-billed Hummingbird, all of which we saw during our visit there during our Colombia Introtour. See more about this tour in the comments Andres Vasquez

Pale-billed Woodpecker slow-mo hitting tree
Pale-billed Woodpecker slow-mo hitting tree

A slow-mo video of a Pale-billed Woodpeccker hitting a branch with such strength that you can see the debris flying all over the place. I personally stress about a piece of it entering the eyes of the woodpecker!!! Video shot during our Belize Birding With a Camera tour that I just finished guiding. See link to it in comments Andres Vasquez

Another Slow-mo video, this time of the exquisite Velvet-purple Coronet from the famed Tandayapa Bird Lodge where the species not not always present but when it is around, it brings up those turquoise, blues, cyans, and deep blacks contrasting with the bright white tail. It was taken during a Custom Birding With a Camera tour in Ecuador (https://www.tropicalbirding.com/southamericaecuadornorthernbirdingwithcamera) just last month. Andres Vasquez

This is a short video with awesome SLOW MO action of various Northern Andes bird species captured during my last couple tours in Ecuador and Colombia. Hope you enjoy it. Andres Vasquez N

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Tropical Birding History and Ethos

In 2001 three delusional young birders (Iain Campbell, Keith Barnes and Nick Athanas) downed tools at their various job (Geochemistry, Ornithology & Geophysics respectively) and decided to start an international bird tour company. Well, growing from Tandayapa Bird Lodge in Ecuador, and a small operation in South Africa, they were soon busy enough to start hiring guides. Now, nearly 20 years later, Tropical Birding runs hundreds of tours a year to all seven continents. It has a photography department, but also still specialises in birding-only tours, and does particularly well at supplying custom tours for clients with specific niche requirements. From photographing Snow Leopards, creating the ultimate birds and mammals safaris, chasing bird families, to seeing loads of bird species and just plain having fun, Tropical Birding does it all!

Our main objective is to ensure that customers are happy, and that they return for more trips. We like to make sure that we recommend the right kind of trips for people who have different interests and needs. So if you want something special, or have any questions, please drop us an email at [email protected] or speak with us toll free (from North America) at 800-348-5941.