Author: David Ascanio

I think the best way to summarize this weeklong tour is with three words. My first is “Priceless”. This is the word that best describes the privilege to going to a natural area surrounded with wildlife, with nights orchestrated by […]

There is no better way to put in words our inaugural Relaxed & Easy VENT tour to the W Andes of Colombia than to call it “a wonderful mix of colors and movement, such like a poem written by wings […]

The much-anticipated return to leading international tours could not unfold in a better way than with our Relaxed & Easy Costa Rica tour. The first morning found us in the beautiful gardens of Hotel Bougainvillea, where the astonishing White-eared Ground- […]

When Birds of the West Indies was published in 1936 little was known about the ecology of the east arc of Caribbean islands and much less about its author: James Bond. Prior to this publication ornithologists were aware that these […]

The magic of the amazon unfolded once again to our eyes and happily, for another year. To seeing fauna highly adapted to challenging conditions (flooded forest, heavy downpours, competition and lack of fruits for a period of the year) was […]

Put together great cloud formations, impenetrable forest, macaws and parrots in flight, primates, huge rivers, tanagers, pink dolphins, antbirds, an amazing number of raptors, golden sunsets and wonderful bird migrations and you’ll have a complete picture of the Amazon. Then, […]

Our Colombia tour started in Chingaza national park (named derived from the Muiscas indians), a location that offered an Andean birding opportunity in the dwarf forest and the paramo, the latter being a habitat found above tree line. At such […]

The beautiful gardens of the Hotel Bougainvillea welcomed us with a wonderful rainbow and a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl singing from the top of a small tree and hummingbirds, tyrant-flycatchers and wood-warblers mobbing it. We enjoyed views of a pair of Rufous-naped […]

One reason to spend a couple of nights in the northern Rupununi was to spend a full day searching for a bird that was almost wiped-out due to the illegal bird trade, the Sun Parakeet. But, the main reason to […]