SOuth America

We run a limited schedule so that we can ensure that the proper attention is paid to each one. We also run many custom tours, to these destinations and others, that are not on this page. Please contact us if you are interested in a tour just for you, your friends, your bird club, or your family. Be sure to click "learn more" for prices, guides, itineraries, and other trip details.

 
 

Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado + Amazon & Iguaçu Falls Extensions

Next set departure: October 2024 (Tour full! Contact us for waitlist.) Incredible birding and mammals (including Jaguar!) at the end of the dry season in one of the world's great wetlands, plus endemic birds of the Cerrado.

New for 2024, the Amazon pre-trip includes four nights at a wonderful lodge along the Rio São Benedito. We will have guided river trips, access to a great trail system, and a world-class canopy tower. We should see hundreds of species, including some only recently described to science.

The extension includes four nights to enjoy the falls and the area's birds, with a full day on both the Brazil and Argentina sides of the great falls.

COLOMBIA: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANDES

Next set departure: Coming soon At the center of hummingbird and tanager diversity, we will enjoy a wonderful introduction to the Colombian Andes all while staying in beautiful eco-lodges throughout the country.

With a variety of habitats visited, including the Central and Western Andes and subtropical lowlands, a species list of over 300 species is expected.

Red Hill Birding is taking on Texas for the rest of the month. Josh is running our Hill Country & Big Bend tour, which includes witnessing the incredible Mexican Free-tailed Bat emergence at the Frio Bat Cave! Steve is soaking spring migration a
On our just-completed Costa Rica tour, we spent an extraordinary hour surrounded by endemic birds in the jardín of Dantica Cloud Forest Lodge--Black-billed Nightingale Thrush, Ochraceous Wren, Ruddy Treerunner, Flame-throated Warbler, Yellow-w
Nathan led a fantastic tour through sunny Southern California last month. As the kids would say, they crushed it. 📸: Tour leader @nathan_goldbird. 1) Lawrence's Goldfinch 2) Island Fox 3) Burrowing Parakeet 4) Black-throated Sparrow 5) Nanday Parak
One of the avian highlights of this year's San Diego Bird Festival was Ridgway's Rail. Normally secretive and difficult to find, our sponsored field trips to the Tijuana Slough NWR were timed to match high tide, which can bring them out of dense cove