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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......

Birds of New Guinea. Hooray, the second edition is now out and is AMAZING! Please buy it, whether or not you’re planning a trip to West Papua or PNG......

I have been fortunate enough to have had a successful career as a bird guide in Limpopo (South Africa) where I am based, but I often think back to when I first ...

New Guinea immediately invokes the stuff of dreams amongst us birders, doesn’t it? It certainly does for legendary BBC wildlife broadcaster Sir David Attenbor...

Pallas’s Fish Eagle is found in central, eastern and southern Asia. Its migratory pattern is complex and poorly studied. The species’ small global populatio...

Being a global tour company we have developed deep and lasting friendships and business relationships with many people all over the .........

“It was a nerve-chilling moment when we faced the Snow Leopard eye-to-eye for the first time in the Altai Mountains of far western Mongolia. This moment is as...

2022 has been my third year at the British office of Birding Ecotours in Norwich, Norfolk, and what a spectacular birding year it has been so far! It’s been e...

This is an awesome coffee table book with truly spectacular photos of a wide variety of the world’s hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are remarkably diverse, .........

This wonderful coffee table book gives the reader a spectacular photographic tour of the life of this dazzling-colored finch species.........

In European birdwatching terms, Greece is not a country that has the fame of other areas like Spain, Poland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom.........

Naturally, safety is of paramount importance to us (and we are one of the very most cautious companies), so we will have social distancing and safety rules in p...

On 1 January 2022 I set out to try and answer this question by embarking on a 31-day birding marathon with the aim of trying to set a record. I have no idea ......

Birds of the Middle East (Porter and Aspinall). This book covers Turkey, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, and the Saudi Peninsula. It has very good plates ......

Collins (or the Princeton version, Birds of Europe) has been the standard in field guides for some time, and this second edition goes from strength to strength....

What a privilege it is to be able to spend a second year based at the UK office of Birding Ecotours, right in the middle of one of Britain’s best birding coun...

We have an amazing opportunity in late-September 2022 to visit a birdwatching site in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to try and observe one of Borneo’s most........

Field guides covering North America, in this context, include Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48 of the United States. It does not include Hawaii, Greenland.........

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 .........

The French list of the birds of South Africa is in part a recognition that a large proportion of the people of Africa are French speaking. Since the .........

Summary. A two-week journey from Harare, in the centre of Zimbabwe's high plateau, to the coastal city of Beira in Mozambique traverses........

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

Andy Walker outlines some of the best moments from his 2019 Amazonian birding adventure in Ecuador. After spending an awesome time .........

Andy Walker provides some highlights from his 2019 birding trip in southern Ecuador. After my time birding around the fantastic north of .........

Andy Walker provides some highlights from his 2019 northern Ecuador birding trip.I have been lucky to live and bird (and lead birdwatching tours and guide at lo...

As the UK is an island and located in the northwest of continental Europe, there is plentiful coastline (ranging from towering rocky cliffs to saltmarshes, beac...

The following species are commonly found in farmland and woodland within the UK. We spend plenty of time birding in these habitats (as well as many others) .......

Andy Walker and Oli Reville offer some thoughts on the common garden birds of the UK in the first of three special blog posts on the common birds of the UK........

There’s a vast array of bird tours available out there. To illustrate this point, Birding Ecotours alone offers a plethora of different trips just to Peru (no...

The purpose of this article is to provide the most up-to-date information on South Africa’s endemic birds (based on the 2020 update of the country’s officia...

When I lived in Wyoming, fellow birders and wildlife enthusiasts were often amazed that I was from Africa. To my American colleagues, it was a continent they......

Summary. A two-week journey from Harare, in the centre of Zimbabwe's high plateau, to the coastal city of Beira in Mozambique traverses........

Woodpeckers are among the world’s most charismatic birds. And the United States certainly has more than its fair share of spectacular-looking ones, with an am...

Due to their nocturnal habits, we find that even talented birders are often unaware that their own neighbourhood is graced by owls. As one example, while Africa...

Yasuní National Park, located in the Amazonian region of northeastern Ecuador spans over 1,022,000 hectares/ 2,527,000 acres of pristine Amazonian rainforest. ...