As I was wrapping up my Rockjumper tour to Borneo on March 14, I was still pretty much expecting the usual tour guide routine for the coming days of wrapping up post tour paperwork and a quick turnaround to a month of tours in Mexico. Instead I headed straight into a shelter in place order and quickly saw...
As far I am concerned, working as a professional bird guide is the best job in the world. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, I see a lot of wildlife and am showing people fantastic birds and wildlife and sharing incredible nature experiences with them along the way. And a nice side benefit is that the...
During the early evening, we parked the minibus in an unassuming pullout and all exited the vehicle. A small copse of native forest, tucked among extensive tea plantations, filled a ravine in front of us. We had come to this spot to look for one of Sri Lanka’s trickiest endemic birds, the Sri Lanka...
[vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1590669873629{padding-right: 80px !important;}"]It was staggeringly sudden as tourism across the planet came to a grinding halt in March 2020. And Rockjumper leaders were in the middle of the mayhem. Take a look and see where they were, how they’ve spent their time and...
The sound of the thud was unmistakable. A bird had hit our living room window as I was preparing to leave the house one morning. My husband, Greg, went to check out the window collision and came back in with an injured Swainson’s...