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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]