Erik Forsyth recently returned from co-leading a private birding tour through Sri Lanka with the legendary Ian Sinclair. Amongst the many birding and wildlife highlights were great sightings of the sensational Sri Lanka Blue Magpie (see photo), outrageous Sri Lanka Frogmouth, Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot, Sri Lanka...

During Rockjumper’s recent tour to Angola, our group was birding the Northern Scarp Forests near Uige when tour leader Markus Lilje observed a group of three olivebacks (small, colourful finches in the waxbill family, genus Nesocharis) on the forest edge. No records of olivebacks exist for Angola, so this of...

Hi all. Erik Forsyth, Andrew Sutherland and myself, Glen Valentine, recently returned from leading four mammoth tours to the legendary birding destination of Papua New Guinea – and what an amazing experience we all had on this otherworldly island! The birding was simply superb and we came back with several...

One of Africa’s great reserves is the incredible Etosha National Park in northern Namibia. This vast, arid wilderness of 22,750 square kilometers is centered around the seemingly endless Etosha Pan, a saline depression that irregularly fills with rain water and at these times, attracts millions of flamingoes...

David Hoddinott recently led our first tour to Angola since 2004 and it proved to be a most fruitful adventure! Angola is certainly beginning to grow in popularity and our 2011 tour has only one space remaining. After suffering decades of civil war, which finally ended in 1996, Angola is once again a safe travel...