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Birding

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Another great year for birding has flown by, presenting our tour leaders with the difficult task of selecting their top bird out of hundreds and thousands of specials seen in 2017. The rest of us, however, have the pleasure of reading the year’s highlights from our leaders as recorded in their own words...

Bird of the Year 2017
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During our recent Western Cape Extension of South Africa, we had one extra day to spend in the Cape Town area, because our pelagic was cancelled due to very strong winds. This allowed us the chance to space our birding schedule a bit more, and to maximise our opportunities at the birding spots that we wanted to visit...

Plan B: A Successful Day of Birding Around Cape Town

Conservation

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This August, just like the last four before it, the American Birding Association convened its annual Camp Avocet. Based in the shore town of Lewes, Delaware, tucked snugly inside the mouth of the Delaware Bay, and a stone’s throw from avian migration hub Cape Henlopen, 22 campers gathered for a week of birding, learning, and…

Youth Birding – The ABA & Rockjumper at Camp Avocet
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As birding and wildlife enthusiasts, minimising our impact on the environment is important to us. So, when the guys from Noremac Chemical Technologies learned we needed a new office to accommodate our growing business, they were all too keen to share with us their ideas for building an eco-office that they had been wanting to put into practice.

Our Eco-Office, “Rockjumper House”

Exploration

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I was very lucky recently to be invited by the Palau Visitors Authority to visit the Micronesian Island of Palau, from the 29th of May to the 1st of June. The invitation was part of an initiative to encourage bird-watching tours to visit the islands. A full programme was laid out for me, and I…

Micronesia – Palau Birding Recce
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Ask most folks where Melanesia is and more likely than not you’re met with a blank stare. To some it sounds more like a health condition best avoided, more so than a place name. Indeed, even of the “-esia” regions it is not the best known, overshadowed by Polynesia and/or the tiny shards and specks…

Melanesia: The Most Well-Known Unknown Place on Earth

From the Field

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During our recent Western Cape Extension of South Africa, we had one extra day to spend in the Cape Town area, because our pelagic was cancelled due to very strong winds. This allowed us the chance to space our birding schedule a bit more, and to maximise our opportunities at the birding spots that we wanted to visit...

Plan B: A Successful Day of Birding Around Cape Town
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Of all the world’s birding tours destinations, Papua New Guinea would have to rank as the most fascinating and exotic. New Guinea, the planet’s second largest island, was the last inhabited landmass to be explored by Europeans. These virtually untouched forests come alive with the sights and sounds of dazzling birds with iridescent colours and elaborate plumes in one of the most astonishing exhibits of the natural world...

Papua New Guinea – Birding in Paradise

Mammals

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Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, is often described as ‘a laboratory of evolution’; due to it splitting off first from Africa and later India, 135 and 88 million years ago respectively, there was a lot of time for the fauna and flora of the island to evolve in isolation. The resulting variety of unique…

Madagascar: Winter versus Summer by Markus Lilje
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(This blog first appeared on focusingonwildlife.com) Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. These relics of time gone by now cling to a precarious existence on the sheer cliffs of Ethiopia’s mountains, from which each morning they materialize,…

The Geladas of Ethiopia

Tech & Travel Tips

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ZEISS has had a long and proud history in the field of sports optics, constantly setting the standard of what should be expected. Because of this history, and what they are producing today, we are proud to have them as a corporate sponsor and partner, and are even prouder to have our guides represent their fantastic products in the field...

ZEISS Gear Reviews: Victory SF Binoculars
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Birds are certainly some of the most alluring photographic subjects around. Whether it be an interaction between birds – friendly or otherwise – their spectacular plumage or their interesting behaviour patterns, a great bird photograph is definitely hard to beat...

5 Top Tips for Bird photography in the Jungle (and low light conditions)

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