Birding Tours to the Western Palearctic, Africa, Asia, The Americas & Beyond!
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New Tours
For Western Palearctic listers how about a short winter trip to Georgia, targeting Great Roseifnch? We can also see Cinereous Vulture, 100's of Little Bustards, Saker Falcon, White-winged Redstart? Full info here.
Another winter tour for 2027 takes us to New Mexico & Arizona, with a pre tour extension to Minnesota for a wide variety of special birds.. Full info here.
And we are in the planning stage for a trip to Iceland targeting Barrow's Goldeneye, Harlequin Duck & Brunnich's Guillemot amongst others. Info here
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Visiting South-East Turkey in the springtime guarantees some of the most exciting birding in the Western Palearctic, lying in a spectacular avian and cultural crossroads between Europe and Asia. Nowhere else in this region offers such a complex mosaic of habitats and resulting heady mix of mouth-watering species. Our first day will be spent along the coast looking for migrants and breeding species that include Black Francolin, Pygmy Cormorant, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Thrush Nightingale or even a Semi-collared Flycatcher. Then we will head up to the eastern Taurus Mountains where the main prize is Caspian Snowcock. Other specialities include Lammergeier, Radde's & Alpine Accentors, Wallcreeper, White-winged Snowfinch and Crimson-winged Finch. Slightly lower down the slopes we will seek out Finsch's Wheatear, Western Rock Nuthatch, White-throated Robin, Sombre Tit, Red-fronted Serin, Black-headed, Ortolan & Cretzschmar's Buntings,
Heading further east we will arrive at the famous town of Birecik, home to some amazing birds. Here we can find See-See Partridge, Red-wattled Lapwing, Pallid Scops Owl, Syrian Woodpecker, Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Iraq Babbler, Upcher's Warbler, Dead Sea & Yellow-throated Sparrows, Heading further east to Nemtur Dagi we will explore some lagoons and steppe country where Kurdish Wheatear, Calandra & Bimaculated Larks occur, along with Pale Rock Sparrow, Cinereous Bunting and Desert Finch. And we will also look for White-headed Duck, Turkestan Short-toed Lark, Savi's & Moustached Warblers amidst the vast reedbed & marshes of Sultan Sazligi. Moving on we will explore rocky hillsides where we can see Olive-tree, Ménétries’s & Ruppell's Warblers, along with Kruper's Nuthatches in the conifer forests.