Birding Tours (& other  nature TOURS)  Worldwide Geographical Listing in  alphabetical order

Birding Tours  (& other nature TOURS)  Worldwide Calendar Listing in  chronological  order 2009 2010

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Our thanks to everyone who traveled 
with us during the year just gone by,  
as we are now into our 19th year! 

FEATURE PHOTOS:

What creature is this?
Send us an e-mail if you'd like to take a guess.
(Photo courtesy of Doris Potter.)

What bird is this?
A clue: This photograph was taken by Alan Brady
during a FONT tour in South America.
Send us an e-mail if you think you know. 

This photograph, of a hummingbird in Brazil,
is one of about 60 in a feature 
about HUMMINGBIRDS 
with a link below
on the right-side of this page.


We'll soon be going, in July 2009, 
to where there will be a Total Solar Eclipse,
as in the photo below. 
In Japan, that tour is sold-out. 

    We'll also be going, in October 2009,
to where there will be
beautiful AURORA BOREALIS,
or "Northern Lights",
as in the photo below. 
In Iceland, that tour still has room. 



The photos above are a few of nearly 1,000 photographs,
of birds, mammals, butterflies,
amphibians, reptiles, and other nature
in this web-site.

DIRECTORY OF PHOTOS

LINKS TO  FEATURED ITEMS OF INTEREST HUMMINGBIRDS during FONT Tours (with about 60 of them in photos) A Feature about ALEXANDER SKUTCH with a directory of his writings  and a PHOTO GALLERY  of NEOTROPICAL BIRDS WHALE SHARKS & Other Marine-Life  off the Yucatan of Mexico           * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ICELAND in the Fall  with 3 Gyrfalcons,  an all-white fox, avian vagrants,   and dancing lights  in the nighttime sky The "Northern Lights",  or Aurora Borealis as during FONT tours in Iceland in the fall Our JAPAN Winter Tour with Blakiston's Fish Owl, Eagles, Cranes, Mandarins, & More A BRAZILIAN Tour  with a Merganser, an Eagle, and a rare Sloth   A BRAZILIAN Tour  with Hyacinth Macaw, many other birds,  and a Jaguar With the Most Birds of any FONT Tour,  in the BRAZILIAN states of Minas Gerais  & Rio Grande do Sul (and that Rio Grande is "just north of the border" - with that of Uruguay)     A Wonderful Bird Migration in SWEDEN, the Land of Linnaeus     A JAPANESE Spring Tour to 5 Islands:  Honshu, Kyushu, Okinawa, Amami,  and Hegura, a special little island  that's a magnet for many birds A tiny island bursting with birds in spring migration,  Hegura, in the Sea of Japan A Tour in ARIZONA with Mexican Yellow Grosbeak, Montezuma Quail, and more - including Hummingbirds! A Tour in PANAMA with an "A -Team" of Anhinga, Ani, Aracari,  along with Agami (relating to a tour  in eastern Panama & Darien) A WEST COAST USA Tour following the path of Lewis & Clark, and crossing paths  with a bird from Hawaii From the Reef to the Rainforest,  with A Lot of Nature in a Little Country - BELIZE Interesting Avifauna & Other Nature of HISPANIOLA (with birds & other wildlife  rare, endemic, isolated, with a history) A GUATEMALA Tour  with the rare Horned Guan,  other birds, and an Olive Ridley Sea Turtle  A CHILE Tour,  from the Pacific to the High Andes  Albatrosses & other seabirds  off the Chilean coast "Nothing's much Finer than Birding in Carolina"  - an essay about birds & our tours in NORTH CAROLINA   ICELAND in June, with its Birds & so Much More Scenery & Nature of ICELAND     * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  A Photographic Sampling of Nature & Culture in  the YUCATAN of MEXICO  (from our March '09 Tour) A Photographic Sampling of Hummingbirds & Hawks  in southern ARIZONA During nearly 20 years of birding & nature  travel, we've been many places.  But in Sep 2008, we were at a place that  ranks among the best, in the remote hills  of Sonora, Mexico.  What was probably best about it is that  it is NOW, as places such as Arizona WERE  in the past - before "development" brought  highways, agriculture, and many people.  A place in the US very similar to where we  were is the Big Bend National Park in Texas.  Where we were in Mexico had enough to be  a national park. See photos & read more by clicking the  following link: A Photographic Sampling  of Nature & Scenery of Sonora, Mexico (from our Sep '08 Tour)  A Photographic Sampling  of Nature & Scenery of BRAZIL (from our Mar '08 Tour) A Photographic Sampling  of Nature & Scenery of BRAZIL (from our Jul-Aug '08 Tour) A Photographic Sampling of the Nature & Culture of SWEDEN (from our Sep '07 Tour) A Photographic Sampling of the Nature & Culture of BELIZE (from our Mar '07 Tour) A Photographic Sampling  of BRAZILIAN  Animals & Birds (from our Sep '06 Tour ) A Photographic Sampling of GUATEMALAN  Nature & Scenery (from our Dec '06/Jan'07 Holiday Tour) A Photographic Sampling of ICELANDIC Birds & Scenery (from our Jun '06 Tour ) A Photographic Sampling  of JAPANESE Culture & Scenery (from our Dec '04 Tour)  A Photographic Sampling  of Birds  in COLORADO, USA & nearby states (from our Apr '05 tour) The Grouse of COLORADO & KANSAS  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SOLAR ECLIPSES & Other Celestial Nature during FONT Tours   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CRANES during  FONT Tours in JAPAN &  North America  SHOREBIRDS in JAPAN (53 species seen  during FONT tours) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * RARE BIRDS during our JAPAN Tours (including the recent counts of cranes) RARE BIRDS of BRAZIL RARE BIRDS of the CARIBBEAN Today & those in that region gone extinct (incl. macaws, parrots, parakeets) Photos of some of the Sea-Life  that's been seen during  FONT Tours in the CARIBBEAN  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A Photo Gallery of Birds Throughout  the Americas    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Yes, Seabirding can  be "black & white". A portfolio of photos by Alan Brady

Annually there have been Focus On Nature Tours, 
for about 19 years, in about 25 countries. 
Particularly notable are Japan birding tours (in winter, and the spring); Caribbean birding tours (to 7 West Indian islands);
 European birding tours (to Spain, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Iceland). In North America, birding tours have been  to: Arizona, California & Washington State, Colorado & Kansas, Florida,  North Carolina, Texas & New Mexico, and Alaska. 
In Central & South America, there are FONT birding tours in 
Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, 
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

A specialty of the FONT (Focus On Nature Tours) program, 
for 15 years, was the doing of  one-day pelagic trips 
for seabirds and marine mammals 
offshore from the Eastern USA 
(New Jersey, Delaware & North Carolina), 
with also, during that time and since, other pelagic trips 
elsewhere in the world - notably in Chile & Japan.

These pages last updated on 28 May 2009.