Papua New Guinea (PNG), the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, has been our top priority destination for the last four years. The top draws here are seven bird families endemic to New Guinea (found nowhere else); and the birds-of-paradise, most of which occur only here. It took us three attempts to get […]
Category: Travel: International
Angola
We spent three weeks in Angola on a birding tour in late May and the first half of June, not counting five days of travel. Angola is on the west coast of Africa, a bit over halfway from the Cape of Good Hope to where the continent bulges westward. It is roughly 800 miles north […]
South Africa
We traveled from October 4 – 27 to South Africa with Field Guides, Inc. The trip had two excellent leaders, Terry Stevenson, with whom we visited Kenya in 2006; and Tarry Butcher, who we met on this tour for the first time. We enjoyed generally good weather except on one day of blustery rain in […]
The Caribbean, At Last
Incredibly, neither Eileen nor I have ever been to the Caribbean. We have been saving the region as a place to explore later in life as the travel and birding are easier than many of the destinations we visit. There are three archipelagos (groups of islands), collectively known as the West Indies, within the bioregion: […]
Chile and 2023 Wrap-Up
We traveled with Field Guides, Inc. to Chile from November 9 – 30. The trip was led by Willy Perez and Eduardo (Lalo) Navarro and consisted of four legs sampling the country from south to north. Our latitude spanned a staggering 35 degrees, from 53.6 to 18.3 degrees south, covering about the same range as […]
Guyana
We left on March 24 for a 13-day trip to Guyana (formerly British Guiana) in northern South America, slightly north of the equator. This birding tour, run by Field Guides, Inc., was led by Marcelo Barreiros, and co-led by local expert John Christian; they made a very effective team. Guyana has become a popular birding […]
Northeastern Brazil
We took two back-to-back birding tours from Jan. 18 – Feb. 18 with Field Guides, Inc. (Nowhere but Northeast Brazil and Bahia Birding Bonanza). These tours visited the states of Pernambuco, Ceara, and Bahia in northeastern Brazil, with the bulk of the time spent in the latter. These areas are well southeast of the mouth […]
Ghana
We’ve just returned from a three-week trip to Ghana in West Africa, on a birding tour with Field Guides, Inc. Ghana is currently probably the best country to visit in West Africa for natural history pursuits. This was only our second trip to Africa, the first being four weeks in Kenya in 2006. The only […]
Oaxaca at Christmas
Since the last blog post at the end of our 2021 road trip, we’ve been in El Paso, and most of my time has been spent doing research and planning for 2022. This has been made much more complicated by the pandemic for several reasons. First, accessability of destinations, such as remote areas of Canada, […]
Panama!
Since 2004, we have on average taken an international birding trip about once every two years. This year our trip was a two-week jaunt with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours to central Panama. Aside from a couple days in Panama City, our bases of operation were at Canopy Lodge, about 2.5 hours southwest of Panama City, […]
Nomadic Naturalists 