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I stood gazing into the treetops. Just a few meters away, I could hear the gruff call again and again. Despite their bold coloration, Narina ......

My name is Adam, and I’m the Marketing Manager at Birding Ecotours. With my job, I’m involved more with the behind-the-scenes work that helps......

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to put their birding in context, and to learn all kinds of things about the flora, fauna, ......

In the vast, rolling grasslands of South Africa's highveld, a small, unassuming bird is teetering on the brink of extinction. Botha's Lark ......

In 2015, I found myself aboard a tiny, motorized dinghy as it cut its way through the crystal-clear waters off the coast of Mauritius. The boat navigated past s...

At the end of January 2025, more than 1,900 birders from around the world set sail on the MSC Musica for a week-long voyage into the southern Indian Ocean. The ...

A birdwatching holiday is the perfect way to explore incredible places while spotting some of the planet’s most sought-after birds. With so ......

In this article I compare three of the main world bird lists. I then also discuss why these lists give different.........

This blog was written by Matthew Orolowitz (the Birding Ecotours Fellow of Grasslands Conservation) on 3 February 2025. Deep in the rolling grasslands of Sout...

Context: Daniel and Joshua had the opportunity to spend two days birding in Zambia, towards the end of a three-week scouting trip for our Namibia, Okavango, and...

This is the most comprehensive field guide available to the mammals of South America. It excludes all bats, rats and mice, but does include......

I woke up to dozens of messages, slightly startled. I opened the first one from a friend; he had sent an image of a Wandering Albatross ......

Continuing our trek through northern Argentina, we abandoned the Dry Chaco of Cordoba and ascended into the ......

The sheer number of habitat-restricted specials found in northern Argentina was the main reason why my ......

The Adjutant half turned his head, sheered a little in the direction of the voice, and landed stiffly on the sand-bar below the bridge......

We find out more about one of our newest members of the Birding Ecotours team, Dan. Dan is based in Stellenbosch, South Africa and is excited ......

This is a beautifully illustrated book with a great many truly superb photos of a charismatic group of birds – the terns (as well as the ......

We find out more about one of our newest members of the Birding Ecotours team, Josh, who has had a passion for birds and birding since he... ......

Birds of Mexico and northern Central America (Steve N.G. Howell and Sophie Webb). Though this book is almost twenty years old, it still stands up .........

Birds of the Middle East (Porter and Aspinall). This book covers Turkey, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, and the Saudi......

I usually give an excellent book a 5-star review, but this one is so awesome that I think it deserves a 6-star review. It’s subjective, of course, but......

This is an excellent book that I recommend for birders visiting Zambia, Malawi or northern Mozambique which are not covered in the classic.........

Collins Bird Guide/Birds of Europe (Svensson, Mullarney and Zetterström). This guide is the best for North Africa. It covers Morocco east to Egypt.........

Birdwatchers are always looking for birds, whether it be in their backyard, their local patch, or hundreds of miles away in a tropical.........

In March 2023 I did a family trip with my parents and partner, to southern Namibia to explore a region of this vast country that I had yet to properly visit.......

Founded in 2000, the nonprofit Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in Saugerties, NY, rescues and rehabilitates orphaned, injured, and compromised.........

Nearly a quarter of the year is already over, and our team has logged almost a quarter of the world’s bird species in that time during our tours! We started o...

Birding in West Papua should be on everyone’s bucket list. It is a remarkable place.........

As human disturbance threatens to push the now tiny (only 542 currently) Scottish population of Western Capercaillie even ......

Johannesburg, more readily known as Joburg or Jozi is the largest city in South Africa, and located on the highveld plateau of central South Africa.........

This is a good and brand new (May 2023) field guide but not necessarily superior to the older (2014) book by other authors that we also recommend for Costa Rica...

For any birder visiting the large Caribbean island of Hispaniola (either the Dominican Republic or Haiti), this book will prove invaluable. It's good to have an...

The author of this beautiful book spent over 2500 hours searching for all of Australia’s finch species, capturing photos of all of them that tell a story abou...

This compact book is well worth purchasing if you are planning a trip to Belize. If you are wanting to visit other Central American countries in the near future...

Really exciting news! One of Asia’s most highly sought after and enigmatic birds, the Critically Endangered (BirdLife International) Masked Finfoot, is curren...

I always find it extremely surprising that Zambia and Malawi are not bombarded by birders. I guess these countries are just not......