Birdquest

22/01/2025

Here are some images from my recent visit to the remote village of Sh*ti in western Yunnan right at the border to Myanmar. Sh*ti is famous for its 14 or so bird feeding stations that are visited annually by ca2000 bird photographers. During my two days’ stay I observed a total of 79 species of birds from the four hides I visited. If you got interested, check our brand new Southwest China tour, which will run in January 2026.
-Hannu

15/01/2025

Without a doubt Cuba is a great birding destination with a nice selection of endemics, including the endemic family Terestistridae. The smallest bird in the world or the endangered Zapata Wren are some of the main attractions of the tour. But it is also an excellent moment of the year to see a good variety of Boreal migrants that makes this tour really entertaining and relaxing at the same time. Here goes an images selection of some of the possible species of the tour.

Photos by Leo Garrigues

09/01/2025

The Interior Brazil tour offers an interesting combination of Biomes, where you can see some of the most exclusive species of Cerrado, Caatinga and Mata Atlantica. During the last tour we were able to see a very high species quality, where we saw the majority of targets in each region. Here is a selection of the species seen during the main tour and the Maned Wolf pre-extension tour.

Images by Leo Garrigues

08/01/2025

The Pantanal & Chapada Guimaraes is part of the new version of Interior Brazil tour, which offers a great variety of birds and mammals with excellent photo opportunities. Here is an images selection of some of the species that we managed to see on the tour.

Images by Leo Garrigues

24/12/2024

17/12/2024

The first Snow Petrels have been seen now that we have reached South Georgia during our Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica expedition cruise! Aptly-named, as there is a strong wind full of snow blowing down on us, but these birds make it worth persevering out on deck.
We are currently anchored at St. Andrews Bay, with over 150.000 King Penguin on our horizon! Hopefully we will get to land in a few hours.

12/12/2024

Our November-December tour to Chile produced good numbers of “Andean Storm Petrel” at-sea off Valparaiso (©John Oates, tour participant). Identification of the very recently described (2024 -yet still controversial) Oceanites barrosi has been confirmed by Heraldo Norambuena, first author of the new species. Mark Pearman

01/12/2024

Our pioneering Birdquest expedition to the entire Juan Fernandez Archipelago, including distant Mas Afuera, departs today from the coast of central Chile. We are all very excited to be visiting Mas Afuera (Alejandro Selkirk) which holds over a million breeding Juan Fernandez and Stejneger’s Petrels and the Critically Endangered Masafuera Rayadito. We have 900km (540 miles) to cover to Mas Afuera. Wish us luck! (Photos from our wonderful friend and expeditions, Enrique Couve.