Any tour to Borneo is by definition special and this one was no exception. The immensely rich and fascinating biodiversity of this huge island’s fauna and flora has kept me wanting to go back and explore, year after year since the late 1970s. Despite the awful smoke emanating from the horrendous fires in Indonesian Borneo…
This was my 28th bird tour to Bhutan. I first began leading bird tours to this magical kingdom in 1994 and have enjoyed the privilege of returning there once or twice a year almost annually since then. So what is it that makes this particular tour so attractive? Quite simply Bhutan is in a class…
Read the full Tour Report here This bespoke tour was specially designed to seek out some very distinctive, elusive families and near-families in addition to as many as possible of the distinctive genera. In this and just about everything else we were enormously successful. Undoubtedly this was one of the most thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating tours I have…
I sometimes have to pinch myself to realise just how fortunate I am to return each year to this extraordinary island. David Bishop Bird Tour’s Borneo is without doubt one of the finest natural history trips anywhere on our planet, not least because Borneo is one of the most exciting, vibrant and biologically diverse places…
I was very excited to be returning to these remarkable islands, which are always so full of surprises and gorgeous, gorgeous endemic birds. This was undoubtedly one of the most delightful and well run bird tours it has ever been my pleasure to be associated with. My colleague Nicky is without peer in these fascinating islands and his knowledge…
A lovely, fun trip indeed. Vietnam is an exotic kaleidoscope of sights, sounds and smells; never mind how humble our surroundings the food just got better and better; the friendliness and outstandingly courteous service left one astonished and the natural history experiences were a joy to behold. Our list of some 318 species of birds…
Wallace’s Standardwing (Semioptera Wallacii), was rediscovered by Mr David Bishop in 1983. It had not previously been sighted for 50 years. It was filmed for the first time in 1986 for the BBC nature documentary “Birds for all Seasons” and was also observed in the BBC Natural World film, “Attenborough in Paradise”.