Rockjumper Birding Tours - Worldwide Birding Adventures

Songbird Nature Festival 2013

rockjumper — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:24:26 +0000

David Shackelford recently represented Rockjumper Birding Tours at the 13th Annual Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge Songbird Nature Festival. Besides enjoying a variety of great food and outdoor vendors with jovial birders from across Texas and other areas of the US, David guided one of the premium birding tours into the preserve. The day was [...]

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Eastern South Africa III tour now discounted by 5%!

rockjumper — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:14:48 +0000

Categories: Company News

The last space on our upcoming Eastern South Africa tour (29 June to 12 July 2013) has been discounted by 5%, so if you have a bit of spare time over that period, why not consider making the most of this opportunity and joining us on what remains one of our favourite tours? Amongst the [...]

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Private Northern India, February 2013

rockjumper — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:22:23 +0000

Categories: Company News

With its colorful and showy birds, excellent chance of seeing wild Tigers, and incredible mountain scenery, fascinating culture, extravagant buildings and architecture and beautiful parks, North India has so much to offer both hardcore birders and more general wildlife and natural history enthusiasts alike! Glen Valentine just returned from leading a private tour to Northern [...]

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper video footage & associated tours

rockjumper — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:31:24 +0000

Categories: Company News

The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is one of the world’s Critically Endangered species, facing immanent extinction due to habitat loss, a low fledging success rate, human disturbance, and the ever increasing effects of climate change. We are therefore very grateful to Rockjumper’s newest tour leader David Erterius for allowing us to share his rare video clip of [...]

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Green Tinkerbird rediscovered in Mozambique!

rockjumper — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:37:56 +0000

Categories: Conservation page

After extensive searching, Greg Davies & Hugh Chittenden have rediscovered an isolated population of Green Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus simplex) in Mozambique, 55 years after the original (and only) southern African specimen was collected! This species occurs very sparsely in E Africa and disjunctly in Malawi and southern Mozambique, where it is only known from a single [...]

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New Budget Borneo Birding & Budget Malaysia Extension tours for 2013

rockjumper — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:48:23 +0000

Categories: Company News

We are very pleased to announce that due to great demand, we have just opened up a second Budget Borneo Birding tour and Budget Malaysia Extension for 2013! These two tours are specifically deigned to provide prime Bornean & Malaysian Peninsula birding at a very economical price, while still encompassing the region’s prime birding localities [...]

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More Ghana tour highlights

rockjumper — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:10:20 +0000

Categories: Company News

Our recent Ghana Comprehensive tour was a huge success, with everyone leaving the country in extremely high spirits with a superb selection of birds and other wildlife under the belt – including setting a new tour record with a total of 463 bird species!Some of the many highlight birds included 4 lifers for Rockjumper leader, [...]

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Ghana tour highlights from David Hoddinott

rockjumper — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:30:25 +0000

Categories: Company News

News is just in from David Hoddinott, who is guiding a private Rockjumper tour in Ghana: some of the many highlights so far have included 5 Eurasian Griffons (a new bird for Ghana as far as we know!), the little-known Etchecopar’s Owlet, the notoriously difficult Nkulengu Rail (photographed), White-crested Tiger Heron (see Adam’s image), Yellow-throated [...]

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Rockjumper sponsors Southern Bald Ibis monitoring programme

rockjumper — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:55:10 +0000

Categories: Conservation page

Rockjumper is proud to announce our sponsorship of the Southern Bald Ibis monitoring programme, which monitors the annual breeding success rates of the Ibises’ breeding colonies in South Africa. Our donation assists in at least covering the fuel costs for the project monitors, all of whom are volunteers and receive no payment for their services. [...]

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Rockjumper becomes Blue Swallow Guardians

rockjumper — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:28:10 +0000

Categories: Conservation page

Rockjumper recently become Blue Swallow Guardians through our support of The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s (EWT) Threatened Grassland Species Programme. This vital project aims to reverse the rapid decline and likely extinction within a mere 10 years of South Africa’s Blue Swallow population, of which fewer than 38 known breeding pairs survive. (The total global population [...]

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