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…
This is an interactive mobile field guide version of Princeton Field Guide’s “Birds of New Guinea” by Thane K. Pratt and Bruce M. Beehler, with illustrations by John C. Anderton and Szabolocs Kókay. Audio recordings were compiled and edited by Iain Woxvold and David Bishop. Like the paper edition, this is the most complete and…
Our trip to the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia was at once fascinating, superbly bird-rich, as promised and, at times, confronting and challenging. Thanks, however, to the adventurous spirit and enquiring minds of our wonderful group we explored parts of Ethiopia rarely if ever witnessed by birders and naturalists. Ethiopia is an endlessly intriguing and,…
Welcome to the official David Bishop Bird Tours newsletter. 2016 was quite a year commencing with a very exciting and truly fulfilling five-week expedition to the Arfak Mountains of western New Guinea (Indonesia). This expedition included the discovery of several major new bird distributions. The Philippines (Luzon and Palawan) – think 14 species of night…
Led by: David Bishop & Nicky Icarangal I was very excited to once again 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…
2 July – 6 August, 2016 ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF BIRDS View the full report here
This was my 29th 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 has makes this particular tour so attractive? Quite simply Bhutan is in a…
2 July–6 August, 2016 This was truly the trip of a life – time. Indeed it was quite a trip as the following accounts surely indicate. I am enormously indebted to Judith and Alan for the opportunity to design and lead such a very special expedition. It was undoubtedly challenging and, at times tiring. However…
This was an immense tour in scope, execution and success. We were all pretty exhausted by the end but what an amazingly wonderful trip it proved to be. We certainly learnt just how huge this fascinating country is and that it harbours some of the most spectacular landscapes on our planet. In addition, it also…
Read the full Tour Report here This was without a shadow of doubt the most wonderful and uplifting safari I have ever led to Africa and likely the finest tour of my career. Quite simply I could have easily turned around and done it all again. The nature, the landscapes and wildlife of Tanzania coupled…
Witness with me the spectacle of thousands of shorebirds at Buntal Bay; crunchingly close views of the globally threatened Chinese Egret on its wintering grounds; repeated views of many Pygmy White-eyes feeding at eye-level; a lifer Graybreasted Babbler for KDB at point blank range; a memorable encounter with a Malaysian Rail-babbler; a close encounter with…
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…
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”.
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