Natural Selections Tours

Name: Natural Selections Tours
Address: La Ceiba, 31101, HN
Telephone: +50495639689

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Natural Selections Tours

Natural Selections Tours was founded in 2019 by James Adams. James came to the decision to establish

03/09/2024

INDIA'S TIGERS, 2025!

Our 2024 Natural Selections Tours Ultimate Tiger Experience was just incredible, with nearly 40 different Tiger sightings, and our groups are filling for 2025.

As always, we’ve gotten a great deal from our partners in India, and can offer what will be our fourth year of India photo tours at an incredible rate. Even if you’re more naturalist than photographer, experiencing Bengal Tigers in nature are too good to pass up, especially when they come with the chance to be face to face with all the other spectacular Indian Wildlife.

The first is a 13-night ultimate Tiger safari and takes us to Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Pench Tiger reserves. The second compliments the ultimate Tiger safari, and is a 6-night extension to Kaziranga National Park in far northeastern India, for incredibly prehistoric-looking One-horned Rhinos and more.
Rates start at $5,861 for the main Tiger tour and $2,788 for the Kaziranga extension and dates are Feb. 21 to March 7 and March 6 to 12.

And while we’ll be targeting Tigers and One-horned Rhinos, you can be sure we’ll be enjoying other things along the way like Leopards, Indian Elephants, Sloth Bear, Blackbuck, Four-horned Antelope, Wild Dogs (Dhole), Indian Wolf, Smooth-coated Otter, and all the other magnificent Indian birds and wildlife that comes our way!

Message for info. or email [email protected]. This is going to be amazing!

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/.../india-tiger.../

29/07/2024

INDIA'S TIGERS, 2025!

Our 2024 Natural Selections Tours Ultimate Tiger Experience was just incredible, with nearly 40 different Tiger sightings, and our groups are filling for 2025.

As always, we’ve gotten a great deal from our partners in India, and can offer what will be our fourth year of India photo tours at an incredible rate. Even if you’re more naturalist than photographer, experiencing Bengal Tigers in nature are too good to pass up, especially when they come with the chance to be face to face with all the other spectacular Indian Wildlife.

The first is a 13-night ultimate Tiger safari and takes us to Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Pench Tiger reserves. The second compliments the ultimate Tiger safari, and is a 6-night extension to Kaziranga National Park in far northeastern India, for incredibly prehistoric-looking One-horned Rhinos and more.
Rates start at $5,861 for the main Tiger tour and $2,788 for the Kaziranga extension and dates are Feb. 21 to March 7 and March 6 to 12.

And while we’ll be targeting Tigers and One-horned Rhinos, you can be sure we’ll be enjoying other things along the way like Leopards, Indian Elephants, Sloth Bear, Blackbuck, Four-horned Antelope, Wild Dogs (Dhole), Indian Wolf, Smooth-coated Otter, and all the other magnificent Indian birds and wildlife that comes our way!

Message for info. or email [email protected]. This is going to be amazing!
https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/.../india-tiger.../

26/07/2024

Birding Costa Rica! November 23rd - December 4th 2024

Natural Selections Tours has been offered a special deal for a last-minute, 12-day Costa Rica birding adventure, following the overview below, and we are currently filling this trip!

This is an easy-going birding tour of beautiful Costa Rica, with its rich variety of tropical habitats and incredible bird life, and is perfect for those birding Central America for the first time, or even wanting to revisit the magnificent bird diversity that Costa Rica has to offer. We begin in San Jose and bird our way through breathtaking, tropical landscapes such as the towering Arenal Volcano, the verdant Pacific coast, tropical dry forest and tropical rain forest, Monteverde’s cloud forests and more, all teeming with bird life!

2 nights San Jose
2 nights Arenal
1 night Cano Negro
2 nights Boca Tapada
2 nights Ara Ambigua
2 nights Savegre

Per-person pricing is $4,525 for a group of 6 birders and goes as low as $3,920 for a group of 8.

This isn't on the website yet as we wanted to get it out to you as fast as possible, but you can message here or email info@naturalselectionstours for the full itinerary.
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24/07/2024

BIRDING BELIZE, 2025!

With a diversity of over 574 species of birds, the nation of Belize is a favorite Central American destination among birders and nature lovers. To its east, the massive Belize Barrier Reef, dotted with hundreds of low-lying cays, hosts some of the richest marine life in the Caribbean. To the west, Belize’s dry, pine, and rain forest areas are home to Mayan ruins like Caracol, lagoon-side Lamanai, and Altun Ha, just outside Belize City.

This Natural Selections Tours 8-day, 7-night birding tour is one of our lowest-priced and offers a rich introduction to birding Belize, while staying at just two lodges and follows the route from Belize City, to La Milpa Ecolodge and Research Center, Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary and Bird's Eye View Lodge.

Our guide and tour leader along the way is Belizean birding guide Roni Martinez. Roni has 18+ years working as a guide, guide trainer, conservation officer, and force for bird conservation in Belize with the Belize Audubon Society, Belize Bird Conservancy, and numerous NGO's and birding tour groups.

Dates are Jan. 26 to Feb. 2 -perfect for a short, winter birding getaway- and rates are from $2,850.00 per-person double occupancy for a group of 6.

Please message here or email [email protected] for more information.
https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/belize-birding-tours-budget-8-days/

18/07/2024

Natural Selections Tours is very excited to be a sponsor of the Southeast Arizona Birding Festival this year in Tucson, Arizona again this year, along with Zeiss Optics and other quality supporters.

2024 festival dates are August 7 to 11, so if you can make it, be sure to stop by and say hi. Natural Selections guide and tour leader Wesley Homoya will be leading field trips, and Cindy Romero and I be at our booth answering questions on destinations like Honduras, Colombia, Guatemala, Guyana, Peru, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Borneo, Australia and more!

You can learn more about the festival at: https://tucsonaudubon.org/festival/

…and you can learn more about Natural Selections Tours at: www.naturalselectionstours.com

12/07/2024

The essence of a good photograph as opposed to a picture is that is evokes emotion or tells a story. I try to do that and most of the truly good photographers I know do as well. Sometimes though, there is a moment or thing that causes us to do what we can, and then tell the rest of the story with words.

This was one of those times. I was in the New Jersey Pine Barrens crossing an area of cranberry bogs where I hadn't the slightest notion that I'd see any reptiles other than a King Snake, Water Snake, or maybe with luck, a Timber Rattlesnake. It was a wet area, and the idea that rat snakes would be here was as remote from my thoughts as could be. And then as often happens, I was stopped in my tracks by unexpected beauty.

This Black Rat Snake was stretched out in the sunset, very gravid and all kinked up as rat snakes do. I stopped, and by slowly moving closer inch by inch, was permitted by this snake to have my 100 mm lens not more than 10 inches away on a tripod. I stayed there easily 15 minutes and the snake never moved. Being so close on my belly on the ground, gave a unique opportunity to see myself reflected in the eye of this sentient being, on its terms, in its own world, and think about what it must have been thinking

In the end, I lifted myself and the snake never moved as I backed off and continued on.

11/07/2024

A male Violet Dancer Damselfly (Argia fumipennis violacea) rests on the back of a female, black-phase Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) in the New Jersey Pine barrens this past June.

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23/05/2024

Thrilled and excited doesn't even come close to how I feel as we begin preparations for a Natural Selections Tours private tour to the western Himalayas and India's Spiti Valley for one of our world's most elusive dream cats, the Snow Leopard!

This trip will be early in 2025 and prefaces our programmed Ultimate India Tiger Experience photo tours. If you're interested in something similar for 2025, 2026, or beyond, feel free to message here or email [email protected].

This one is not on the website yet, but in the meantime you can enjoy these amazing photos by Nikhil Virdi and Vikram Singh.

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01/05/2024

UGANDA! Named among the New York Times "Places to go".

Uganda registration for 2024 is open and there are still a couple spaces left. This Natural Selections Tours African adventure includes all the birding, game drives, and gorilla and chimpanzee tracking we can pack into 10 days, and we will be accompanied throughout by Uganda's very best guides. We'll visit iconic locations such as Lake Victoria, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kibale National Park, and the UNESCO World Heritage Site Bwindi Impenetrable Forest where we'll have 2 full days for gorilla tracking! Included are all gorilla permits, chimpanzee permits, lodging, meals and in-country transportation.

Dates are December 1 to 10, 2024 and cost is on our website.

Please feel free to message for details, or email [email protected].

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/uganda-wildlife-safari-10-days/

28/04/2024

Birding Colombia in 2024!

… home to over 1,950 bird species, more than any other country on Earth in an area no bigger than Texas and California combined...

This is Colombia, and Natural Selections Tours still has space on our July birding tour around the capital city of Bogota and nearby coffee growing areas, which is a great introduction to the birds of the Eastern and Central Andes Cordillera. We’ll cover ecosystems of high elevation such as Andean forest, cloud forest, and Paramo, and will have a lowland forest transition as we move from one Cordillera to the next.

In terms of birding, expect to see some 20% of the country’s avian species in 10 days including 20 endemics, 50-60 Tanager and 30+ hummingbird species!

Price is $4,418 usd per person, double occupancy and dates are July 14 to August 2, 2024; short enough to be easy, and long enough for a lifetime of amazing birding experiences and memories!

Learn more at: https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/colombia-birding-tours-10-days/ or email:

[email protected] for more information!

21/04/2024

Herping Tour Indonesia: Komodo, Bali and Java, 2024!

Natural Selections Tours is really excited to be offering what for many is considered a dream destination: Indonesia's Komodo National Park, and the neighboring islands of Bali and Java!

We have 2 open spots left our September 14 to 27, 2024 tour, and targets include Komodo Dragon, King Cobra, Blue Coral Snake, the blue, green, and yellow phases of the White-lipped Island Pit Viper, as well as loads of other reptiles and amphibians like Tokay Geckos, Reticulated Pythons, Dragon Snakes, and much, much more.

And as a big plus, there are several snorkeling stops along the way for Giant Manta Rays, Green and Hawksbill Sea Turtles, and Banded Sea Kraits.

Have a look on the website (full itinerary can be seen there) and consider joining me and some friends on an unparalleled herping adventure in paradise!

Message here for info, or email [email protected]

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/indonesia-herping-tour-14-days/

14/04/2024

GUYANA 2024!

Guyana is the only English-speaking country in mainland South America, and is home to Giant Otters, Giant Anteaters, giant Harpy Eagles, giant waterfalls, and upwards of 900 species of birds.

Led by Wesley Homoya and our Guianan guides, Natural Selections Tours will be birding this country’s most beautiful rain forests, expansive savannahs and pristine river systems, while staying at some of the country’s most comfortable lodges. Guyana is famous for having upwards of 80% of its forests intact, and as such is the ideal destination for tropical birds and wildlife requiring such large areas of forest. Join us in the land of 39 hummingbird species, 29 parrot species, 16 cotinga species, 15 manakin species, 8 toucan species, Guianan C**k of the Rock, Macaws, Sun Parakeets, Harpy Eagles, Jaguars, Pumas, Tapirs, 8 species of primates, and more!

Dates are Sept 5-17, 2024. Message here or email for more info:
[email protected]
https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/.../guyana.../

11/04/2024

During our Natural Selections Tours Ultimate Tiger Experience in India, we came across hundreds of Asian Green Bee-eaters flying, feeding and frolicking in just about every situation you can imagine. This one seemed almost intoxicated as it soaked up the morning sun along one of our early morning Tiger safaris.

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-tiger-photography-tour-14-days/

11/04/2024

A Smooth-coated Otter comes up with a meal as a Black-necked Stork wades for fish in India's Kaziranga National Park on the post-tour extension to our Ultimate Tiger Experience Tour. I really don't know how a bird with flambeaux-red legs can sneak up on a fish, but somehow they do and they do it well.

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-kaziranga-rhino-photography-tour/

10/04/2024

Whale Sharks! August 2 to 6, 2024:

We’ve added the above dates to a 4 night Natural Selections Tours snorkeling trip to Mexico's Isla Mujeres, during the peak of Whale Shark season.

Underwater photographer and naturalist Matthew Sullivan leads this trip, which affords the most up-close and intimate exposure to these incredible animals possible, while maintaining a hands-off and respectable approach. Our private boat takes us during August’s new moon (the very best time) from Isla Mujeres to the midst of an unforgettable natural spectacle that can also include giant mantas, sea turtles, dolphins and more.

Whale Sharks and rays are commonly close enough to the surface to be just meters away and photographic opportunities are incredible by simply swimming calmly alongside and among these beautiful, gentle creatures.

Rates start at $2,614 per-person for a group of 6 and go down to $2,074 for a group of 9. Get yourself to Cancun and we'll do the rest!

Message here or email [email protected].
https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/mexico-isla-mujeres-whale-shark-tour-5-days/

06/04/2024

INDIA'S TIGERS IN 2025!

Our Natural Selections Tours Ultimate Tiger Experience continues to produce sightings, experiences and photographs that are hard to beat. As such, we are super excited to be returning to India in 2025 for Tigers, Leopards, and all the rest of India's magnificent wildlife and birds!

And for 2025, we are enhancing the experience even more with a 5 night, pre-tour extension of Ranthambore National Park, which is perhaps India's most reputable Tiger reserve.

Dates are:

-Pre-tour Ranthambore National Park extension- Feb. 16 to 21.
-Ultimate Tiger Experience Tour (Bandhavgarh, Kanha, Pench National Parks)- February 21 - March 7.
-Post-tour Kaziranga National Park- March 6 - 12.

Email info@naturalselectionstours or message here to join us in 2025!
https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-tiger-photography-tour-14-days/

02/04/2024

While in India, our Natural Selections Tours group saw several species of Hornbill during our Ultimate Tiger Experience tour. During the Kaziranga National Park extension there were numerous Malabar Pied Hornbills, though most were far or flying. This male was part of a pair that we saw delightfully close as they explored a nest hole near our staging area for safari drives.

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-tiger-photography-tour-14-days/

02/04/2024

Rose-ringed Parakeets outside their nest in India's Kaziranga National Park. Our group got a surprise when we learned that our visit overlapped with a last minute visit by India's Prime Minister Modi. He had reserved the Central Range for himself one day, which had us visiting the Park's Agratoli or Eastern Range. That turned out to be a delight however as it was perhaps the birdiest part of our entire tour and after one visit to this zone, we all wanted more!

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-kaziranga-rhino-photography-tour/

01/04/2024

Two of the many dozens of Blackbuck Antelope we saw prior to our Natural Selections Tours Ultimate Tiger Experience, on the extension to India's Velavadar National Park. Our main target was Jungle Cat, and we saw many, but these beautiful and elegant animals were no less a blessing to see in the wild.

We've seen Blackbuck before in India, but never as close or as numerous as we did in Velavadar.

Blackbuck once ranged throughout the Indian subcontinent, but today are mainly confined to isolated, protected areas. They are considered extinct in Pakistan and Bangladesh and less than 200 still exist in Nepal.

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/.../india-tiger.../

01/04/2024

During our Natural Selections Tours Kaziranga National Park extension in India, we came across Indian Elephants on every safari drive.

This was in the afternoon when we encountered a group of 8 or 10 Elephants having fun with water hyacinth by pulling it up and then flailing it about in the water to presumably knock the mud off before eating it. This parturient-looking female was never far from two other very young Elephants and it even seemed like the littlest one at least, was learning from her behavior.

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-kaziranga-rhino-photography-tour/

31/03/2024

A few more images from our spectacular Natural Selections Tours Borneo trip. 2025 dates are March 15 to 28 and we would love for you to join us!

Message here for info. or email:

[email protected].

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/malaysia-borneo-wildlife-tour-14-days/

29/03/2024

India: one of Bandhavgarh National Park's Tigers, hidden in roadside grass, maybe 8 feet from where our jeep passed.

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29/03/2024

This Malabar Pied Hornbill was seen on our Ultimate Tiger Experience photo tour, just before sunset in India’s Bandhavgarh National Park.

Wildlife photographers should always be on the lookout for a compelling silhouette image. They tend to add mystery and another conceptual dimension to a photograph. And, they tend to obscure the personality of the subject and cause the viewer to feel closer to the scene. Silhouettes are a way to make the observer feel they are part of the picture.

I’m not sure if the above applies to you, but it does for me. Silhouettes are also a great way to make the most out of lighting conditions that are otherwise, no bueno!

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-tiger-photography-tour-14-days/

28/03/2024

Sunrise from Velavadar-Blackbuck National Park in the state of Gujarat, India.

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28/03/2024

Though our Ultimate Tiger Experience was a photo tour focused on Tigers, you can be sure we stopped for just about all the birds and wildlife we encountered along the way.

In this case, it would have been impossible not to stop! It was during the Kanha National Park of our Tour, and Lynn Hackett and Fred Hennig and I were in the same jeep when we passed this Hoopoe on the ground and feeding quite fearlessly close to the dirt road we were on.

Luck was with us and as we stopped, this gorgeous bird hopped up onto a bamboo stalk at pretty much eye level, perching there for what seemed like many minutes. Every few seconds it would swing its head side to side, essentially watching us watch it, as our cameras clicked out a staccato that must have resulted in hundreds of images.

Hoopoes do most of their feeding on the ground which explains that long, probing bill, and different species are distributed across Asia, Africa and Europe. A fun fact is that this exotic, regal, and beautiful bird is also seen time and again in ancient Egyptian art, where it was considered sacred.

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-tiger-photography-tour-14-days/

27/03/2024

BORNEO! March 15 to 28, 2025. While Borneo is not cheap and not close, we've worked with our hotels and operators there to offer a price that is as good as it gets, considering the once in a lifetime quality of this experience!

Join us in some of Earth's oldest -130 million years- rainforests.

This Natural Selections Tours adventure will focus on Malaysian state of Sabah, at the northernmost end of Borneo, and will be packed with bird watching, river cruises, daytime hikes and nocturnal rainforest walks as we go in search of Storm Storks and Hornbills, Orangutans and Proboscis Monkeys, Pygmy Elephants, Leopard Cats, and all the other fantastic bird, mammal, reptile and amphibian life of this magical place. And if we are very lucky… we may even lay eyes on the mysterious Clouded Leopard.

This 14-day tour includes the finest lodges and accommodations that Borneo has to offer.

Message here for info. or email [email protected].

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/malaysia-borneo-wildlife-tour-14-days/

27/03/2024

Another Indian Peacock from our Natural Selections Tours Ultimate Tiger Experience in all its splendor, this time in Pench National Park. I know Peacocks are very familiar birds, and we've all seen them in zoos, parks, etc., but to experience them in the wild and in their intended world is something so exotic and special that I think I'll stare in awe at each and every one I see, now and forever!

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-tiger-photography-tour-14-days/

26/03/2024

A stunning White-throated Kingfisher seen in Pench National park during our Natural Selections Tours Ultimate Tiger Experience in India. We saw many, many of these gorgeous birds in India, but this one was so outrageously close and at eye level that it was almost -too close- for most of our lenses! If you are on a monitor and zoom in, you can actually see our jeep in the bird's reflective eye.

Join us in 2025!

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26/03/2024

A stunning White-throated Kingfisher seen in Pench National park during our Natural Selections Ultimate Tiger Experience in India. We saw many, many of these gorgeous birds in India, but this one was so outrageously close and at eye level that it was almost -too close- for most of our lenses! If you zoom in on a monitor you can actually see our jeep in the bird's reflective eye.

Join us in 2025!

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-tiger-photography-tour-14-days/

26/03/2024

Another of the 40-something Tiger sightings made during our Natural Selections Ultimate Tiger Experience in India. This male was silently closing in on a small group of Sambar Deer just beyond the tall grass.

As much as we succeed in photographing Tigers out in the open in all their prowess and glory and immensity, I especially love seeing them hunting through the tall grass and wondering what their world seems like from that perspective. And even more so, I wonder about how terrifying it must be to be a deer in that world...

Join us in 2025!

https://www.naturalselectionstours.com/tour/india-tiger-photography-tour-14-days/

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About Natural Selections Tours

Natural Selections Tours was founded in 2019 by James Adams. James came to the decision to establish Natural Selections Tours, as he wanted to expand on sharing his passion and experiences with other bird watching and nature travelers.

Natural Selections Tours was born out of a love for the tropical nature of Central America. This has evolved in being able to offer birding and nature tours to this whole region and beyond. We would be very happy to help you to organize and design your bird watching, wildlife watching, or nature photography holiday whether it be in Honduras, Central America, South America, Asia, Africa or elsewhere. Over the decades, we have gathered and are eager to share our vast knowledge of the natural history and conservation of our beautiful Planet with you.