Birding Posts

In the article below, Chris Lotz walks you through the amazing diversity of endemic birds that are found nowhere else but in South Africa. ......

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

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 ......

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

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...

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 ......

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.......

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.........

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.........

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......

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...

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

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...

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

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 ......

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........

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........

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 offers 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...

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...

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. ...

It’s mid-May, and my fourteenth year teaching organic chemistry just ended. It was quite the unusual semester since the COVID-19 pandemic forced all college ....

Birding Ecotours was originally founded in South Africa (in 2002) by Chris (with Dylan.........

The winter birding has been amazing! The birding here in Norfolk has been so good that I’ve hardly had time to miss the superb birding in Ohio, where we.........