Tour News and Highlights




 
Welcome! This section of the Keen Birding website is  dedicated to photographic summaries of birding trips, professional and private alike. The reports focus on the most interesting species and events from each specific tour. Although many of the tours focus on North American destinations, this section is by no means limited to that region and includes trip highlights from Europe, Asia and Africa. I sincerely hope that you enjoy browsing through these pages. Please share any comments with me at:

james@keenbirding.com

     Smooth-billed Ani, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 2005.
 







My next departure - Two tours in The Gambia, West Africa, November 8th through December 8th, 2007. Here's last year's trip summary from a superb tour.


Just added.......a trip summary for California September 2007.


...and a trip summary of Arizona 2007 on the Birdfinders website.



California with Birdfinders, September 4th - 19th, 2007. Another fantastic trip out west! Click on the Imperial County Sunset to start the image sequence.
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Alaska with Birdfinders, June 15th - 30th 2007. This Whiskered Auklet was a complete surprise on St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs. View more
images from Birdfinders second tour of Alaska >>

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Ferruginous Pygmy Owl - stunning views at Bentsen RGV State Park on this year's Birdfinders Spring tour in Texas.........five pages of images >>>.
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Bean Goose (a national first) in Southern Israel, March 2007. A summary with images of two weeks birding in the southern deserts, including a week with Birdfinders.
Israel March 2007.

Green Turaco at Abuko - Seen with Birdfinders in The Gambia - November 2006. Report and images from another excellent trip to West Africa.
The Gambia '06.

California with Birdfinders - September 2006. This Buller's Shearwater was one of hundreds seen on a dedicated pelagic during this year's tour. Click on the shearwater to view eight pages of photo-highlights.
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Arizona with Birdfinders - July/August 2006. First pages of photo-highlights. << Left - one of five or six White-eared Hummingbirds
in Millar Canyon on August 1st.
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Texas with Birdfinders - April 2006. This Gray-crowned Yellowthroat was just one of many highlights on the recent Birdfinders spring tour of Texas. Two pages of images are already available, plus a short narrative summarizing the tour.

*Just added - More tour news and images from Texas on the Birdfinders website, edited by Martin Tribe.
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Israel with Birdfinders - March 2006. Subalpine Warblers (left) were amongst an excellent variety of 'sylvia' warblers recorded on the tour. Click on the warbler to see a short summary of the trip and more images.
Maqueen's Bustard
White-tailed Lapwing
Greater Sand Plover
Cream-cloured Courser
Lesser Flamingo
*More tour highlights - Just added*

California with Birdfinders - September 2005. View the image selection below, or peruse a narrative summary of the tour here.



Selected images from Birdfinders California tour September 2005.
  • Click on any species name below to view selected images.
 Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Pink-footed Shearwater
Flesh-footed Shearwater
 Sooty Shearwater
Ashy Storm-Petrel
Black Turnstone
Ruff
South Polar Skua
Long-tailed Jaeger.
Franklins Gull
Sabine's Gull
Harlequin Duck
Blue Grouse
Chuckar
Greater Sage-grouse
California Quail
Pacific Golden Plover
Yellow-footed Gull
Ruddy Ground Dove
Lesser Nighthawk
Allen’s Hummingbird
Lewis’s Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Pacific Slope Flycatcher
Yellow-billed Magpie
Island Scrub Jay
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend’s Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Belding's Savannah Sparrow
Large-billed Sparrow
Blue Grosbeak
Bi-colored Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird