Tour reports

Tour description: No matter how many consecutive times I lead a Cuba tour there´s is always an excitement accompanying me as if this was my first time ever guiding in this amazing island. Maybe be because its uniqueness or its […]

Tour description: Our Cuba tour started at the airline counter of the Miami airport with Cuban-Americans checking bags of all sizes, many covered with a protective blue plastic, flat screen TV’s, electronic devices, tires, car parts and much more. I […]

Tour description: once again, a great success. How different can it be when such small country hosts an amazing mix of hummingbirds, tanagers, tyrant-flycatchers, toucans and great people?

Tour description: It might has been a sunny afternoon of 25th September 1502, when Christopher Columbus (he liked to be called thenCristobal Colón) reached what´s today called Puerto Limón, in the Caribbean lowlands of Middle America. I can only imagine […]

Tour description: Our flight to Iquitos left arid Lima behind as it gained elevation. Those of you that had a window seat enjoyed the snow-capped peaks and glaciers as we passed through the Andes. As soon as we were on […]

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 […]