Tour reports

The concept of beauty has different perspectives for humans. To some, it means enormous architecture, fine styled landscaping, or astonishing clothing. For a birdwatcher or a nature lover it has a different meaning, surely more profound. For us, beauty is […]

If there is a place in Planet Earth where the power of nature shows in unimaginable ways, that is the Iguacu Falls. Draining from the Parana River, a series of waterfalls plunges down with such power that one must see […]

Wonderful Colombia welcomed us in Cantos de Aves, an incredible project where Mrs. Nora Eleña Londoño and Don Jorge Iván Toro Uribe have reforested a land that used to be a pasture.

A perfect birding weather in San Jose welcomed us with views of Cinnamon Hummingbird, Hoffman’s Woodpecker, Gray Hawk (nesting), Yellow-naped Parrot (in flight) and Cinnamon-bellied Saltator (a recent split from Grayish Saltator). Also, we observed some neotropical migrants such as […]

Misterious, warm, wild, at times seeming unwelcoming but ready to be discovered. As soon as the plane started descending to Puerto Inirida we noticed a green expansed of forest, sinuous rivers with oxbow lakes, sandy beaches and clearings for subsistence […]

And the much-expected day arrived. We had been waiting for this moment since the pandemic blew-up in 2020. And now, we were back guiding into the greatest nature realm on earth, the Amazon. Getting on the skiffs to smell the […]

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 […]