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For the avid Western Palearctic lister, we have a ground-breaking short tour to West Kazakhstan where we will be targeting Demoiselle Crane, Caspian Plover, White-winged & Black Larks, Sykes's WarblerBlack-headed Penduline Tit, Red-headed Bunting and more! Full info here.
Heading further afield, our Philippines With A Difference tour visits several off the beaten track sites on Luzon, as well as Bohol, Negros and Mindoro. Full info here.
And also keep checking our website for full info on next February's Algeria tour - just for a small group of 5 birders. No need to apply for a visa in advance on this one!
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Featured Tour
EGYPT - THE NILE VALLEY - APRIL 2026
For the avid Western Palearctic lister, Egypt is a must-visit destination! Starting in Cairo we will visit some excellent sites around the city in search of Greater Painted Snipe, Kittlitz's Plover, Senegal Coucal, Nile Valley Sunbird & Red Avadavat. Along the Nile will pick up African Green Bee-eater along with African Swamphen (recently lumped in Purple Gallinule), Senegal Thick-knee, Pied & White-throated Kingfishers amongst others. At Aswan we will make a boat trip out onto Lake Nasser and explore the surrounding area for the mega Three-banded Plover & Streaked Weaver, as well as having our first chance of Yellow-billed Stork & African Pied Wagtail. In the far south of the country and a stone's throw from the border with Sudan we will spend 3 night's at Abu Simbel - THE hotspot for rare African species wandering across the border of the Western Palearctic boundary and here we will look for Reed Cormorant, Yellow-billed Stork, Kittlitz's Plover, Plain Martin & Village Weaver, as well as African Pied Wagtail again.
There's a fine supporting cast of potential species that includes various herons & egrets, Little Bittern, Black-winged Kite, Yellow-billed Kite, Cream-coloured Courser, Pharaoh Eagle Owl, Egyptian Nightjar, Greater Hoopoe-Lark, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Streaked Scrub Warbler, Clamorous Reed Warbler, Pallid Swift, Hooded, Mourning, White-crowned Wheatears, Trumpeter Finch and others. Migration can also add some surprises and possibilities include White-tailed Lapwing, Eurasian Wryneck, Masked Shrike, Semicollared Flycatcher, Marsh & Eastern Bonelli's Warblers, Ortolan& Cretzschmar's Buntings & so much more! And of course there will be some culture with visits to the Great Pyramid and Sphinx at Giza and The Great Temple at Abu Simbel