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A small, deliberately short lineup — each journey small-group, personally led, and paced for people who like to really look. Our groups average eight guests, occasionally reach ten, and are sometimes smaller depending on the destination, lodging and other practical factors. Register your interest and we contact you first when it opens, or explore acustom private journey.
Every announced journey, grouped by year. Register interest for any of them and we'll write to you the moment reservations open.
England
The wetlands and coast of Norfolk and the ancient woods of Suffolk, in May at the very height of spring. Migrants pour in off the North Sea, Bitterns boom across the reedbeds, and on three separate mornings we stand within metres of a singing Nightingale.
Opening soonUganda
A seventeen-day circuit through Uganda's wild register: Shoebills standing in the papyrus of Lake Victoria, the Nile plunging white at Murchison Falls, turacos calling through Budongo and the Royal Mile, Kibale's chimpanzee forest, Queen Elizabeth's open savannahs, and the flowered ridges of the Albertine Rift where sunbirds and endemics work the misted edges of Bwindi. Over 500 species are in reach, with time among wild chimpanzees and a permitted hour with mountain gorillas woven into the birding.
Open nowEcuador
The archipelago that rewrote biology, at close range — boobies and albatross on the cliffs, penguins and flightless cormorants along the shore, and Darwin's finches at arm's length. Pairs naturally with the Ecuador Cloud Forest extension.
Opening soonEcuador
An add-on to the Galápagos journey, climbing into the Chocó cloud forest on the west slope of the Andes. Cock-of-the-rock leks, a bewildering hummingbird cast at the feeders, and mixed flocks of tanagers pouring through the mist.
Opening soonMadagascar
An 18-day cross-island immersion linking western dry forest, eastern rainforest, the Central Highlands, sandstone savanna, southwestern spiny forest and coastal wetlands.
Opening soonNew Zealand
An extraordinary birding adventure from Auckland to Stewart Island — island sanctuaries, alpine country, pelagic seas and nocturnal kiwi, followed by time to enjoy Christchurch's city, Botanic Gardens and museums.
Opening soonJapan
Winter birding from Kyushu to Hokkaido — great gatherings of Hooded and White-naped Cranes in the south, Red-crowned Cranes dancing on snow, and Steller's Sea Eagles along the frozen northern coast.
Opening soonIndia
Winter in the plains and wetlands of northern India, when the marshes fill with cranes and storks and the dry forest holds some of Asia's most sought-after birds. A journey of painted waterbirds, Himalayan river specialists, rhinos and tiger country — with an optional five-day Pench extension for Central India's dry forest.
Opening soonIndia
An optional add-on into the dry teak forests of Central India's Pench Tiger Reserve — one of the country's best chances of a wild Bengal Tiger, with Leopard, Dhole, Sloth Bear and the reserve's characteristic sal-and-teak birding all in reach.
Peru
A slow river journey deep into the flooded forest by small vessel and skiff, where the birding is done from the water at dawn. Hoatzins in the riverside tangles, macaws crossing overhead, and the long-shot dream of a Harpy Eagle.
Opening soonBulgaria
Spring across Bulgaria's wildest edges — vultures riding the thermals over the Rhodope Mountains, pelicans and herons in the Danube wetlands, and a surge of migration along the Black Sea coast, with orchids, butterflies and old-world villages woven into the journey.
Opening soonMalaysian Borneo
Sabah from cloud forest to lowland rainforest — birding Mount Kinabalu and Rainforest Discovery Centre, watching orangutans in the Kinabatangan Wetlands, and ending deep inside the epic wilderness of Danum Valley.
Opening soonPortugal
Great Bustards displaying on the Alentejo plains, flamingos and waders in the Tagus and Ria Formosa wetlands, and spring migration along the Atlantic headlands — an early-May Portugal journey threaded with wildflowers, whitewashed towns and hilltop castles.
Opening soonGet your name down if you are interested in any of these tours. They are being scoped now, and we'll write to you when dates and details are set.
Dates TBDAustralia
An east coast birding journey from Sydney's coastal forests to Brisbane's subtropical wetlands and O'Reilly's rainforest birding, then north to Cairns, the Daintree, Kingfisher Park and the Wet Tropics endemics of Mount Lewis Road.
