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Third bunch of Photos from our Falkland Islands: Birding with a Camera® (BwC)Info@tropicalbirding.com
19/12/2024

Third bunch of Photos from our Falkland Islands: Birding with a Camera® (BwC)
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In just over a year, our next Senegal tour (https://www.tropicalbirding.com/africasenegal) will take off again. This is ...
19/12/2024

In just over a year, our next Senegal tour (https://www.tropicalbirding.com/africasenegal) will take off again. This is a tour full of cool experiences, from birding on the border with Mauritania with the breath of the Sahara on our faces while we search for the enigmatic Golden Nightjar, to taking a boat cruise to the well-named "Pelican Island, where thousands of these birds are packed tightly into a small space, to crossing tidal flats to an island where the largest known roost of Scissor-tailed Kites occurs, to gently birding by boat in the Southern part, where Egyptian Plovers and Northern Carmine Bee-eaters headline, there is plenty to look forward. It is my favorite tour in West Africa for sure! Sam

BIRDS OF ECUADOR 3: Whited-edged Oriole is restricted to the Tumbesian region of Ecuador's dry Southwest, and occurs in ...
19/12/2024

BIRDS OF ECUADOR 3: Whited-edged Oriole is restricted to the Tumbesian region of Ecuador's dry Southwest, and occurs in DRY DECIDUOUS FOREST (an unusual habitat in South America, where most forests are tropical evergreen varieties, and is present due to cold currents coming up from Peru). It is easy to find in the Jorupe Reserve, near the border with Peru, where they often visit the feeders with the more widespread Yellow-tailed Oriole too - Sam

Second bunch of photos from our Falkland Islands: Birding with a Camera® (BwC)For more information: info@tropicalbirding...
18/12/2024

Second bunch of photos from our Falkland Islands: Birding with a Camera® (BwC)
For more information: [email protected]

I am currently visiting a very special corner of the World, Sea Lion Island, a tiny piece of land part of the Falkland I...
18/12/2024

I am currently visiting a very special corner of the World, Sea Lion Island, a tiny piece of land part of the Falkland Island archipelago. It’s a place where time seems to stop, where there is no rush on doing anything, no stress, no worries, just peace and calm. Here you walk the paths feeling like a fly on wall just witnessing how wildlife follows its own undisturbed path away from the presence of humans, and at the same time you feel warmly welcomed when a penguin walks in towards your feet, checks you out, and then hops away. You also feel small and insignificant when you walk next to huge elephant seal that does not raise an eyebrow to say anything to you. You feel blessed when you raise your binoculars and see Orca fins on the water as they patrol the proximities of the seal colonies expecting to catch a reckless individual. And of course you feel lucky to be able to visit such a gorgeous site and see all the wonderful birds and mammals present here. Then you try to capture the moments and the feeling with your camera but ultimately you feel frustrated knowing that no matter how good your photos are, no matter how good you are with words, you will never be able to express and show the magic of being here.

https://www.tropicalbirding.com/southamericafalklandislands

Andres Vasquez N.

BIRDS OF ECUADOR 2: Plate-billed Mountaion-Toucan is confined to Northwest Ecuador and far Southern Colombia (the Choco ...
18/12/2024

BIRDS OF ECUADOR 2: Plate-billed Mountaion-Toucan is confined to Northwest Ecuador and far Southern Colombia (the Choco bioregion), where it inhabits Neotropical Cloud Forest. The trees in this area are carpeted in reddish-tinged bromeliads, epiphytes which live on others trees. It is a wet cloud forest full of atmosphere, when the regular Andean Mountain mist rolls in and turns it into "nighttime daytime". These toucans typically live in pairs, preferring to stay near the tops of the moss-covered trees. It is named after the yellow plates that appear like they gave been stuck on and are raised from the surrounding parts of the bill. It is one of most iconic birds of the endemic-rich Choco region, and is frequently near the top of many "wish lists" coming to the Choco. Thankfully, there are some great places to see this cloud forest toucan in Northwest Ecuador, where all of this photos were taken...Sam

Looking for festive inspiration? The following EARLY 2025 tours have spaces still remaining. Feel free to join these tou...
17/12/2024

Looking for festive inspiration? The following EARLY 2025 tours have spaces still remaining. Feel free to join these tours RIGHT NOW, if you want to kickstart your 2025 list in some style with some phenomenal tropical birds...

MEXICO & GUATEMALA: Yucatán, Cozumel, & Tikal (March 2025)
(2 countries, multiple ancient ruins, and LOTS of birds of the tropical lowlands).
https://www.tropicalbirding.com/mexicoyucatan

MEXICO: Oaxaca & Chiapas (Mar-Apr 2025)
(Oaxaca has the highest list of any Mexico state - more than 800 species, including more than 100 regional endemics).
https://www.tropicalbirding.com/mexicooaxaca

BELIZE: Birding with a Camera (April 2025)
(Ocellated Turkeys, Rose-throated Tanager, and easy tropical birding!)
https://www.tropicalbirding.com/centralamericabelize

Contact us NOW if you wish to join any of these exciting tours!

Our Falkland Islands: Birding with a Camera® (BwC) tour + Patagonia (Chile) Extension​ finished few days ago. Here you c...
17/12/2024

Our Falkland Islands: Birding with a Camera® (BwC) tour + Patagonia (Chile) Extension​ finished few days ago. Here you can find some photos of this great experience.
First bunch of photos

BIRDS of ECUADOR 1: Toucan Barbet. The Toucan Barbet is neither a toucan nor a barbet but sits within a two species fami...
17/12/2024

BIRDS of ECUADOR 1: Toucan Barbet. The Toucan Barbet is neither a toucan nor a barbet but sits within a two species family, the "Toucan Barbets". The only other member of this family is the distinctly less colorful Prong-billed Barbet of Central America. Both species have restricted ranges, with the Toucan Barbet only occurring in Northwest Ecuador and Southern Colombia. Thankfully, this "Clown of the Andes" is easy to find in Northwest Ecuador where it regularly visits feeders for bananas at places like Tandayapa Bird Lodge. For all of its good looks, in 20 years of leading tours in Ecuador, I have never known it to win the BEST BIRD OF THE TRIP. Indeed, it often does not even make the top five! It makes you wonder what else there is to see in Ecuador that a bird like this gets forgotten, overlooked at the end of trip voting. Ecuador is loaded with the spectacular, bird-wise, do there are some hard choices to be me. Sorry, Toucan Barbet, I rate you even if everybody else seems to, only less so! Sam

See/photograph this species on these tours:

Ecuador: Relaxed Tandayapa -https://www.tropicalbirding.com/southamericaecuadorrelaxedtandayapa

Ecuador: The Andes Introtour - https://www.tropicalbirding.com/southamericaecuadorandesintrotour

Northern Ecuador Birding with a Camera Tour - https://www.tropicalbirding.com/southamericaecuadornorthernbirdingwithcamera

Northern Ecuador Photo Tour - https://www.tropicalbirding.com/southamericaecuadornorthernphototour

Ecuador: Hummingbird Extravaganza. Part 1 The Northwest -
https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ecuadorhummingbirdtour

Birding the high Andes of ECUADOR is a lot of fun; the scenery is staggering and the birds that eke out a living up ther...
16/12/2024

Birding the high Andes of ECUADOR is a lot of fun; the scenery is staggering and the birds that eke out a living up there are often spectacular. The Spectacled Redstart is one such species. Related to the American Redstart, though this warbler is a resident and does not migrate. They occur right up to the upper part of the timberline, even in view of areas marginally higher where no trees exist for them, which is where this was seen yesterday, in the very highest dwelling trees in the area, close to Papallacta Pass. Other species seen alongside this one included the dreamy Rainbow-bearded Thornbill, tiny Viridian Metaltail, furtive Tawy Antpitta, and lead-colored Plumbeous Sierra-Finch. Later that morning, closeby, we also saw the rare Red-rumped Bush-Tyrant, scarce Jameson's Snipe and ptarmigan-like Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe- Sam

I went out for a lazy Sunday's birding around Papallacta Pass in Ecuador, and got this smashing male Rainbow-bearded Tho...
16/12/2024

I went out for a lazy Sunday's birding around Papallacta Pass in Ecuador, and got this smashing male Rainbow-bearded Thornbill. It seemed to battling with a local Viridian Metaltail for supremacy in the high Andean flowers there! Wandering around the vast paramo alone was also a highlight, with jaw-dropping scenery and some great birds, including the rare Red-rumped Bush-Tyrant, the scarce Jameson's Snipe, and a pair of ptarmiganesque Rufous-bellied Seedsnipes - Sam

We got this very skulky and special species from high Andes Jameson's Snipe during our visit to Cayambe-Coca National Pa...
16/12/2024

We got this very skulky and special species from high Andes Jameson's Snipe during our visit to Cayambe-Coca National Park we ago. Jose

Any time with an owl is precious, and any time with an owl during the daytime is more precious still. I was fortunate to...
14/12/2024

Any time with an owl is precious, and any time with an owl during the daytime is more precious still. I was fortunate to spend some quality time with a family of Powerful Owls in suburban Sydney recently, due to an excellent local tip off. The park was full of eucalyptus trees, though the birds were sleeping within a skinny strip of rainforest down by the river (which is typical for them). They were utterly magnificent. This is Australia's largest owl species weighing in at over 5 pounds (2.3 kilograms), which is around the same as the Great Horned Owl of North America. It is a beast that hunts possums around the city under cover of darkness - Sam

The most underrated of Australian birds on the various tours (Birding, Introtour, Photo Tour, Birding with a Camera Tour...
13/12/2024

The most underrated of Australian birds on the various tours (Birding, Introtour, Photo Tour, Birding with a Camera Tour) that cover O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat in Eastern Australia is the Regent Bowerbird. The male is daubed in velvety black and gold, and is by any measurement a good looking bird. However, O'Reilly's is such a good place to see the species well, (they have an official feeding time each day during the Australian springtime), that few people ever pick it in their top five birds of the tour. A sacrilege in my book. I guess people do not believe me when I tell them it is a typically a very SHY inhabitant of the Subtropical Rainforest there, which is hardly ever seen along the forest trails in the same location or at other sites that it occurs too. We should feel privileged and rank this bird much higher on a more regular basis! Sam

This common but very attractive Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager can be seen usually throughout the Andes in Ecuador and...
13/12/2024

This common but very attractive Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager can be seen usually throughout the Andes in Ecuador and part of the South America, we took this picture during our visit to Yanacocha Reserve, come and join us on our future trips. Jose

The SENEGAL January 2026 tour is up and running, with the first bookings coming in already (https://www.tropicalbirding....
12/12/2024

The SENEGAL January 2026 tour is up and running, with the first bookings coming in already (https://www.tropicalbirding.com/africasenegal). If you want to see hundreds of Scissor-tailed Kites, Egyptian Plover and Golden Nightjar, and do a boat trip to an island full of pelicans, then please let us know! I LOVED this tour, and am greatly looking forward to going back in January 2026. Here are some of the birds on offer...Sam

If you asked me before I had seen it, what is the best bird in the World, I would have said Wilson's Bird-of-paradise. I...
12/12/2024

If you asked me before I had seen it, what is the best bird in the World, I would have said Wilson's Bird-of-paradise. If you ask me now, (after I saw it in September this year), my answer remains firmly the same. It would take some behemoth of world birds to dislodge this from the top spot on the list of best birds of the World. Rarely has a bird looked so good from behind! David Attenborough said something similar to this some years back, so I am in good company there I think! Sam

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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.