Exotic Birding offers two types of small-group, guided tours to Central and South America, birding tours and bird/nature photo tours. Our birding tours and photo tours are both led by an expert birding guide and an accomplished bird photographer, but they differ in emphasis.
Our birding tours are for devoted birders of any skill level seeking to maximize species count. Our bird/nature photo tours are slower paced, emphasize photography rather than species count, and are intended for bird/nature photography enthusiasts.
Our website provides a wealth of information about our destinations and tours, accessible from the sidebar links or tabs above. We encourage you to explore our galleries of images taken on prior tours. Feel free to call us any time. We provide personalized service and won't subject you to a phone menu or sales pitch when you call.
EXOTIC BIRDING TOURS
We've carefully planned every birding tour to maximize our birding success by visiting as many habitats, altitudinal zones, and locales as possible while still maintaining a reasonable tour pace. Each tour is led by an English-speaking master birding guide who usually lives and guides in the destination country year-round. Accommodations are generally comfortable eco-lodges or hotels situated near birding locales unless otherwise noted on our tour pages.
We offer Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama birding tours every year because these are our most popular destinations. In addition, we offer birding tours to Belize most years, and birding tours to Brazil, Guyana, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands some years. TOP
EXOTIC BIRD/NATURE PHOTO TOURS
Our bird/nature photo tours are designed for photographers interested in making photographs of a broad diversity of tropical birds near feeders, in open habitats, and within complex habitats including rainforests all during one tour. They're also suitable for beginning birders or birders interested in a more relaxed tour pace. Success depends on having an expert guide who can find and identify the birds along with a photographer skilled at adjusting to the often variable lighting conditions found within a forest. For that reason all our photo tours are co-led by an expert birding guide and an accomplished bird/nature photographer, Laura Fellows, who made most of the images on our website.
Our photo tours are conducted similarly to our birding tours, but we emphasize photography rather than species count. We walk rainforest trails, take boat trips through remote wetlands, and visit many altitudinal zones and out-of-the-way places in pursuit of diverse, colorful, majestic, unusual, and secretive tropical birds and animals to photograph. All the while, we stay in comfortable ecolodges and hotels throughout our tours.
We began offering photo tours because we've found that photographing birds on traditional birding tours sometimes conflicts with the goals and interests of birders seeking to maximize species count. We also wanted to offer something more than traditional bird/nature photo tours and workshops that specialize on techniques for photographing a single group of birds such as hummingbirds or are mainly devoted to photographing larger, relatively stationary birds and animals of open habitats. The goal of our photo tours is to photograph the entire gamut of birdlife in the tropics, encompassing everything from the easier subject matter of open habitats to the more difficult birds of tropical rainforests.
We offer bird/nature photo tours to Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama every year. In some years we also offer photo tours to the Galapagos Islands. TOP
