High Lonesome BirdTours

01/10/2025

Grouse, woodpeckers, jays, finches and so much more on our Colorado Tour. We now have two spaces remaining:

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Sign up soon. Pinyon Jay from our 2024 Colorado Tour Photo Stephan Lorenz

01/08/2025

The impressive Lesser Adjutant surveys its wetland territory, see this and many other incredible species during our international tours. Photo Stephan Lorenz in Sri Lanka

01/06/2025

Surprisingly, I see Winter Wrens a lot less than the closely related Pacific and even Eurasian Wrens. So it was lot of fun to find several during a recent CBC in the San Jacinto woods near Houston.

Good birding everyone, Stephan

01/06/2025

It is time to get your ducks in a row and choose one of our wonderful trips in 2025.

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01/05/2025

Our fantastic Dutch Harbor tour has two spaces remaining, you can get an overview of the tour during this short video:

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Sign up here:

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June 20 – 23, 2025 2 Spaces available!

12/31/2024

Tapaculos are notorious skulkers, creeping through dense tangles like small rodents and flying reluctantly. Fortunately, they are often fairly common and vocal, revealing their presence and identity with distinctive songs and calls. The species occurring at higher elevation are often more bold, frequently coming out into the open as they scurry through elfin forest or paramo scrublands. Here are three species from southern Peru, the localized Vilcabamba Tapaculo, even more range-restricted Ampay Tapaculo, and more widespread Puna Tapaculo, a truly fantastic family of birds.

12/29/2024

The impressive Toucan Barbet belongs to the small neotropical family Semnornithidae. The two species in the toucan barbet family have fewer and finer rictal bristles than other barbets and a tiny notch at the tip of the lower bill. Our Cali Colombia tour offers fantastic chances to see this spectacular bird.

12/29/2024

Crimson-rumped Toucanet is just one of many stunning species we will see up close during our Cali Colombia Tours.

12/28/2024

Velvet-purple Coronet

12/28/2024

Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle is always an impressive raptor.

12/26/2024

Red-legged Kittiwakes, Laysan, Black-footed and maybe Short-tailed Albatross plus a dozen species of alcids, oh wow! All on the Alaska Dutch Harbor tour which has only 2 spaces remaining! Sign up here:

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12/23/2024

Our holiday newsletter is out, we hope you will join us on some of our 2025 tours:

Our Sri Lanka tour in October 2024 was fun, exciting, and most successful on the birding front. Our small group of determined and motivated birders maximized their time on the field and were rewarded with incredible birding success. Some of the main highlights included excellent views of all 35 curr...

12/21/2024

Excellent views of the scarce Buckley's Forest-Falcon were a definite highlight from our time in southern Peru.

12/14/2024

A Rock Earthcreeper is making its presence known, which was another fun moment from our Argentina adventure.

12/07/2024

Great Grebe on one of the many wonderful wetlands of northern Argentina.

12/06/2024

Our Argentina birding adventure continues to be incredibly successful. Yesterday, we saw a pair of rare Boulder Finches (Photo Kurt Hillman) exceptionally well and a last-minute Scribble-tailed Canastero today!!!

12/05/2024

Black-legged Seriemas can by pretty shy and disappear quickly amidst the dense Chaco habitat they prefer. We have been lucky to see multiple during our exploration of northern Argentina.

12/03/2024

We greatly enjoyed birding in the unique Yungas forest of northern Argentina. This lush habitat held many exciting species, including the localized Red-faced Guan, sneaky Ochre-faced Spinetail, and active Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher. It has been an exciting trip so far.