Guyana Birding Tours - Beginning in October or November 2009 we plan on offering a birding tour to Guyana. We will be adding this tour to our website some time in December.
Website Update - we have just updated our website with new photographs from our spring tours. We have also re-designed our gallery pages, eliminating thumbnails and adding tabs. Our galleries are now organized by country and are accessible from the sidebar links.
Fall 2009 Tours - We'll be adding our fall 2009 tours to our website in December upon our return from Guyana. We'll be offering both birding and photo tours to Ecuador in November, with itineraries designed to be either 1-week tours or combined 2-week or longer tours that suit a variety of different budgets.
Guyana Scouting Trip Nov 2008 - During Nov 7-22 we will both be in Guyana birding prime birding sites and making photographs preparatory to our 2009 tour offering to this amazing and little known birding destination. Upon our return we'll be processing our images and adding them to a new photo gallery on our website.
Guyana Scouting Trip April 2008 One of us (Jim Wittenberger) visited Guyana on a familiarization tour in April 2008 at the invitation of the Guianan Tourism Ministry and funded in part by USAID with a group of other tour operators from Europe and the US. He was enthralled with the birding opportunities in this as yet little known birding destination. The group saw or heard 319 species during 9 days, including specialty birds and endemics such as Black Curassow, Harpy Eagle, Little Chachalaca, Gray-winged Trumpeter, Black-headed Parrot, Caica Parrots, Tepui Swift, Crimson Topaz, Guianan Puffbird, Guianan Toucanet, Blood-colored Woodpecker, Rufous-bellied Antwren, Todd's Antwren, Yellow-throated Flycatcher, Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock, Capuchinbird, Tiny Tyrant-Manakin, Cayenne Jay, Finsch's Euphonia, and Red Siskin. For a complete report of this trip, CLICK HERE.
2008 Spring Photo Tours - We began offering bird and nature photo tours to some of our favorite destinations in spring 2008. On our Costa Rica tour we made numerous excellent photographs of forest birds including Resplendent Quetzals and hummingbirds at famed Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, water birds including Jabirus during a boat trip through Palo Verde National Park, and various lowland tropical birds at Carara National Park. On our Panama tour we made photographs of numerous tropical birds along famed Pipeline Road, on the Caribbean side of the Canal Zone, and in the western highlands of Chiriqui Province. Some of the notable birds we photographed were Harpy Eagle, Mealy Amazon, Spectacled Owl, Black-throated and Western White-tailed Trogons, Ocellated Antbird, White-whiskered Puffbird, and several species of hummingbirds.
