Tour reports

Our tour started in Cerro de la Muerte, a mountain that´s part of the Talamanca Cordillera, where a hummingbird-filled week gave us views of the near-endemics Volcano Hummingbird, White-throated Mountain-Gem and Fiery-throated Hummingbird. But Cerro de la Muerte is notorious not […]

Gamboa, with its picturesque houses, was our starting point and headquarters for this week filled with wildlife. Well maintained gardens were home for a Buff-breasted Wren nesting, an energetic male Fasciated Antshirke and Gray-headed Chachalacas. At the mouth of the Chagres […]

Cuba continues to offer a unique mix of birds, culture and architecture hardly matched anywhere in the Caribbean. Our first approach to the Cuban birdlife allowed us views of the widespread Cuban Blackbird and the territorial Cuban Emerald. We also […]

Our second-of-the-year Amazon Cruise was what I would call a magic trip.  That means a nice mix of quality birding, great group dynamic and unparalleled ship’s staff! Day by day, we learned about various topics, from sedimentary river islands and […]

Our Casa Maria and Hato Piñero tour provided an incomparable mix of birds, mammals and habitats unique to the Neotropics. This year we started in a different way: with views of blue-and-yellow and chestnut-fronted macaws flying over the valley of […]

Our last of the New Year tour in the llanos was filled with amazing views of Sunbittern, Agami Heron, Pinnatted Bittern and an amazon array of desert scrub species due to a domestic flight missed. We will relaunch this tour […]

As I wrote this Field List I found myself wandering between images and memories of our Panama´s Canal Zone tour and, it was hard to pick one or a handful of it as favorites. There was a good reason: there […]

Our inaugural photo safari into Pantanal could not start in a better way: with six jaguars seen (and photographed!), giant anteater, red-legged seriemas, Helmeted Manakin, superb close views of hyacinth macaws and amazing sights of giant river otters! Please, see […]

Our 2014 Eastern Venezuela tour started near the southern bank of the Orinoco river in the Cachamay falls. Here, Orinocan Saltator was seen. Continuing south, we drove to one of my favorite birding areas: Sierra de Lema where we admired […]

Cuba has been the most interesting, fascinating and intriguing tour I have ever lead in the Caribbean. A mix of unique history, endemic birds and unparalleled charming people made this tour one hard-to- forget in the years to come.