BIRD PHOTO TOURS, BIRDING TOURS
BIRD PHOTO WORKSHOPS
We offer quality bird photography tours, birding tours, and bird/nature photo workshops. We've been bringing a personal touch to each client's travel experience since 2005. Our extensive website offers detailed information about our tours and workshops as well as useful information about the countries and birding locales we visit, bird checklists, and more. Please note: to help mitigate rising airfares, we've reduced our prices on spring 2014 birding tours to Costa Rica and Panama without changing tour itineraries or accommodations.
BIRD PHOTO TOURS & SAFARIS
Our bird photo tours emphasize bird photography, though our Africa photo safaris also include wildlife photography. Our goal on photo tours is to get great photographs of many species of birds and wildlife in their natural habitats. Itineraries are often similar to our birding tours, but the pace is slower to allow ample time for photography. Our Africa photo safaris visit the main game parks and reserves like other safaris, but we place more emphasis on bird photography and visit other birding locales as well to photograph the many birds missed by typical safaris. Each tour is led by professional photographer Laura L Fellows, whose photos adorn our website. We provide detailed information about each tour on separate tour pages, reached from the green-bar menu above.
BIRDING TOURS
Our birding tours cover diverse habitats, altitudinal zones, and locales to maximize species count and are scheduled for the best times of year for birding, typically when birds are in breeding plumage and especially active. Each birding tour is led by an expert birding guide who specializes in that country and typically lives there year-round. We stay in comfortable accommodations, preferably eco-lodges, near the birding sites whenever possible. For each birding tour we provide extensive information on our tour pages, reached from the green-bar menu above, including detailed itinerary, description, tour map, photos, checklists, target bird lists, lists of range-restricted and endemic birds, and more.
COUNTRIES
FEATURED TOURS
 2014 Tanzania Birding Tour
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2014 Peru Birding Tour
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2014 Galapagos Photo Tour
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NEWS
October 2013 - Clements Updates - We've updated our website to reflect all changes on the September 2013 Clements update, version 6.8. Many changes on this update were focused on Asian birds, along with some African birds. However, 15 new Amazonian species were included in this update, which is very unusual considering that Neotropical birds are cnsidered to be well known already. Other notable changes included the lumping of Violet-crowned Woodnymph and Green-crowned Woodnymph into a single species, Crowned Woodnymph and newly recognized species that were formerly subspecies included splits of East Brazilian Chachalaca and Scaled Chachalaca from Speckled Chachalaca, Purple Quail-Dove from Sapphire Quail-Dove, Tepui Toucanet from Chestnut-tipped Toucanet, and Bell's Sparrow split from Sage Sparrow, with the latter renamed Sagebrush Sparrow. There were also 3 new families recognized involving Asian and African species, many splits of Asian species, and re-sequencing of species in various families and genera based on the latest DNA research. Read more »
WHY TRAVEL WITH US?
Personal service, small groups, memorable experiences, reasonable pace, expert guides, professional photography instruction, better prices than comparable tours. Our goal is always to make your experience the best it can be.
PHOTO WORKSHOPS
Our instructional bird/nature photo workshops emphasize bird photography but also include some nature photography. They're designed to instruct participants on how to obtain stunning environmental portraits of birds in their natural habitats without reliance on outdoor studio setups. All workshops are conducted by professional bird photographer Laura L Fellows, whose extensive body of work is evident throughout our website. Introductory and advanced photo workshops take place at locations specially chosen for their photographic opportunities within the United States, while international photo workshops take place at selected locations in the tropics. Every photography workshop includes one-on-one phone consultations with Laura along with assignments prior to arrival on location, photography in the field, classroom instruction, and constructive critiques intended to improve everyone's photographic success. For currently scheduled workshops click on the WORKSHOPS menu above or give us a call.