Trip reports help people learn what to expect on a tour before the tour takes place. A prior tour does not necessarily have the same itinerary and may not have been led by the same guide. Nevertheless, a trip report does give one an idea of what to expect when visiting a birding locale. With that said, we provide trip reports of a few tours we've conducted as well as a few familiarization trips we've been participants on. Only one of us, Jim Wittenberger, writes trip reports and we don't expect our birding guides to write them for us, so we cannot provide reports of every tour we conduct. The only reports we produce are those tours where Jim has participated. Below are links to trip reports we have written.
2011 SE Brazil Endemics Tour
Birding tour to Rio Grande do Sul, Intervales, Itatiaia, Ubatuba, Guapiacu, and Caraca, Brazil
2011 Colombia Fam Trip
Familiarization trip to Yellow-eared Parrot Reserve, Rio Blanco, and areas around Bogota, Colombia
2010 Ecuador Birding Tour to Esmeraldas
June birding tour to Esmeraldas in northwest Ecuador, covering Rio Palenque and Rio Canande Reserves, and also the east-central Andes around Macas including Sangay National Park and the Trans-Cutucu Road.
2010 Southern Ecuador Birding Tour
June birding tour to southern Ecuador, including roadside birding in the central highlands and visits to El Cajas National Park, Yunguilla Reserve, Buenaventura Reserve, Jorupe Forest Reserve, Utuana Reserve, Tapichalaca Reserve, Zumba, Podocarpus National Park (both Cajanuma and Bombuscaro sections), Copalinga, and Cordillera del Condor.
2008 Guyana Scouting Trip
November scouting trip to Georgetown, Dadanawa, Karanambu, Rock View Lodge, Surama, Atta Rainforest Lodge, and Iwokrama Field Station.
2008 Guyana Fam Trip
April familiarization trip to Georgetown, Iworkrama Field Station. Atta Rainforest Lodge, Surama, Rock View Lodge, Karanambu, Dadanawa, and Kaieteur Falls in Guyana.
2008 Belize & Tikal Birding Tour
January birding tour to Hidden Valley, Tikal, Mayflower-Bocawina National Park, Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Reserve, Blue Hole National Park, and Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary
2007 Northern Ecuador Birding Tour
Birding tour to Yanacocha Reserve, Mindo Valley, Rio Silanche Bird Sanctuary, Milpe Bird Sanctuary, Bellavista, Antisana Reserve, Papallacta Pass, Guango Lodge, San Isidro, Guacamayos Ridge, upper Loreto Road, Archidona Road, El Para Reserve, and Napo Wildlife Center.
2007 Galapagos Birding & Photo tour
Birding and natural history tour to the Galapagos Islands. Islands visited on tour were Baltra, Genovesa, Isabella, Floreana, Champion Islet, Espanola, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, and North Seymour.
2007 Brazil Scouting Trip
Scouting trip to Cristolino Lodge, the Pantanal, and SE Atlantic Forests of Brazil.
2007 Costa Rica Highlights Birding Tour
Spring birding tour to the Talamanca Mountains, Los Cusingos, the Pacific Coast, Carara, La Selva, and Braulio Carrillo.
2006 Northern Ecuador Birding Tour
Scouting trip to Mindo Valley, Milpe, Bellavista, Tandayapa Valley, Yanacocha Reserve, Tumbaco Valley and other areas around Quito, Papallacta Pass, Papallacta Water Plant, Guango Lodge grounds, San Isidro grounds, Guacamayos Ridge, El Para Reserve, Upper and Lower Loreto Road, and Yasuni National Park plus the private reserve around Napo Wildlife Center in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Napo River) region.
2006 Southern Ecuador Birding Tour
Fall birding tour to southern Ecuador, including the roadside within Manglares-Churute National Park, Buenaventura Reserve, Jorupe Forest Reserve, Utuana Forest Reserve, Catamayo Valley, Cajanuma and Bombuscaro sections of Podocarpus National Park, Tapichalaca Reserve, El Cajas National Park, Yunguilla Reserve, Santa Elena Peninsula including Ecuasal Salt Ponds, and roadsides en route between locales.
2006 Costa Rica Highlights Birding Tour
Spring birding tour to the Talamanca Mountains, Los Cusingos, La Selva, Braulio Carrillo, and Carara.
2006 Belize Birding Tour
Spring birding tour to Hidden Valley, Caracol Archaeological Site, Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Reserve, Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary, and Lamanai Archaeological Site
2006 Panama Highlights Birding Tour
Spring birding tour to the Canal Zone, Chiriqui Province of western Panama, and the Punta Patino Forest Preserve in Darien Province of eastern Panama.
