Tour reports

I find it difficult to summarize in words the mix of landscapes, skies painted in all kind of rich blue tones, inimaginable waterfalls reaching the sea, immensely huge glaciers, cliffs with thousand (or even tens of thousand) seabirds nesting, pale […]

It’s about 02:00AM in San José and we are listening the widespread and ubiquitous Clay-colored Robin singing from our hotel window. Yet, it was still too early to experience the real explosion of bird songs which usually happens after dawn. […]

The tour started in Rancho La Belén, an active cattle ranch where a population of the little-known Giant Kingbird remains. Along the drive to the ranch we were already stopping to enjoy views of Cuban Palm Crow, Cuban Crow and […]

An extract from our Field List: The first full day received us in Tahuayo, a tributary of the Amazon river. As soon as we were on the skiffs, the three groups were enjoying a wealth of birds, from antbirds to […]

An afternoon refreshing breeze welcomed us to the Camaguey airport. Although showing decades of deterioration, this city could not hide its glorious past. As we drove by its narrow roads, we enjoyed the amazing tiles, beautiful iron work and wonderful […]

Bogotá at 04.00AM was cold and dark. But we had to meet that early to take the morning flight to Yopal, the capital city of the Colombian Llanos. Soon after our arrival, we took the 4-wheel drive vehicles and started […]

The Panama Canal welcomed us with a chorus of howler monkeys roaring in the distance, toucans either yelping or croaking, parakeets screeching and a pair of motmots giving their typical hoop, hoop! As the day gained light, we added images […]

A remarkable birding journey across the high Andes from Cuzco to the east slope of the Andes and down to the Amazon basin in Madre de Dios. It comes difficult to express in writing the emotions, challenges, wonderful birds and […]

Bulstling Medellín hosted us for the first night, where we realized how much Colombia has changed in the last two decades. Once considered a never-to-be-visited, the surrounding of Medellín has become a peaceful city with great birding areas. Our first […]

Fantastic Costa Rica welcomed us with amazing views of a Lesson’s Motmot (Momotus lessoni) feeding on infructescences of a bromeliad, at eye level. Also, with pairs of Rufous-naped Wrens (Campylorhynchus rufinucha) giving their display accompanied by their cacophonic voice and […]