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BIRDING TOURS WORLDWIDE

Welcome to Birding Ecotours! Here we present you with the best birding tours around the world. Please scroll down for the latest blogs, trip reports and client testimonials. But first, here is what is most important to us:

Conservation: we donate a bare minimum of 10 % of our annual profits to bird conservation. It is Birding Ecotours’ company policy to contribute this money directly to conservation and local communities. We are passionate about birding and also about leaving a legacy – by genuinely helping people and conserving birds – for generations to come.

The best birding guides: Birding Ecotours tour leaders are some of the best bird finders in the industry and are also great with people (which is even more important than birding prowess).

Small groups: we often guarantee our set departure birding tours with a minimum of 4 participants (sometimes even fewer), and ...

… we typically cap the maximum group size at 6 or 8 (with a few exceptions). We also offer private, bespoke birding trips for any size group you want (besides our set departures).

Excellent value: Birding Ecotours trips are usually competitively priced, even though we tend to use superior accommodation and vehicles where available. Orange boxes on our tour itinerary pages throughout our website clearly explain if there are things that sets a specific tour apart (sometimes meaning a higher price, as quality is paramount to us).

An impeccable reputation since we started in 2003: Birding Ecotours has a well-established reputation meaning we have stacks of awesome repeat clients. Our client testimonials speak for themselves; see the latest ones at the bottom of this page.

Enthusiastic service: we love getting back to you quickly with the information you need about your birdwatching vacation.

The best trip lists: we pride ourselves in getting the best tour bird lists (please do check our trip reports to see this) while also allowing enough time to enjoy each species, and allowing adequate time to stop for mammals and other wildlife too. We have a great many birding trips on offer, most of which are perfect for serious listers looking for the country’s endemics and specials (yet suitable also for beginner birders and everyone in between).

A few specialized tours: we offer some of the best rare mammal tours, owl tours, birding photography tours, Antarctic and Arctic cruises, pelagic birding trips, and more, in addition to our standard birding tours.

We have a vast repertoire of birdwatching tours across the planet. The above is a general indication of how we operate, but please ask us for details about specific tours, as they vary depending on the style of the guide who is leading, the destination, and other factors.

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One of Africa’s most iconic birds, a Secretarybird, proudly struts across the veld (as South Africans describe the savanna). Have a look at our amazing South Africa Tours here.

LATEST REVIEWS OF OUR BIRDING TOURS

We had a great time in the Pantanal and at Iguazu Falls with Eduardo and our group. My highlights, and the reason to book this trip, were to see Hyacinth Macaws, jaguars, and Iguazu Falls. Success on all counts, plus another 265 birds and many other animals (Ocelot, Giant Anteater, etc). We had such a good time that we’ve booked another trip in South America for next year!

Robert – On Pantanal and Iguazú Falls – October 2026

Eduardo is an excellent guide. His bird skills are terrific. He can find and spot birds very quickly. He is kind and patient. He makes sure everyone has a good chance to see the bird. He always asked each person by name if we saw the bird. He is organized and always on time. He really made the trip easy, fun and rewarding.

Steve and Laurie – On Eduardo and Southeast Brazil – September 2025

I think my standout highlight was the day we spent visiting Lesotho up the Sani Pass. There were good bits on all other days. I feel I should be able to suggest improvements to the trip but I really can’t – I think you got everything about right.

Daniel was overall excellent. He was expert, helpful, pleasant, organised and sensible. No negatives. I liked the ‘style’ things of pre morning start coffees; relaxed attitude to recording sightings by people other than himself. All very grown-up.

The local guides we used were all very good too, particularly our guides into Lesotho who had excellent breadth as well as depth of knowledge. Adam Cruickshank in Durban also did a very good job for me.

David – on Subtropical South Africa and Daniel – October 2026

Eduardo was a fantastic guide. Our trip to Peru and Manu was catered to be one of culture, wildlife, and of course, birds. Eduardo is very patient and knowledgeable, a great conversationalist guide as well! My first trip to South America was overall an incredible experience, even with a tight schedule of less than two weeks. Well done!

Noah – On Eduardo and Southern Peru – May 2017

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