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Pelagic Trips from 
New Jersey in '04+'05

Pelagic Bulletins
(latest Sept 23, '04)


Previous Tour
Highlights 2004


Previous Tour
Highlights 2003

Previous Tour Highlights 2002

Previous Tour Highlights 2001

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Highlights 2000

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BIRD-RELATED FEATURES:

Philadelphia Birdline
(regional RBA, 
updated weekly)/+
(as of Sept 3, 2004)

Birdline Delaware
(regional RBA, 
updated weekly)
(as of Sept 7, 2004)


Birdline Photo Gallery 2002-04

Birdline Photo
Gallery 2002

Birdline Photo
Gallery 2001



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P.O. Box 9021 
Wilmington DE 19809 USA 
Toll-free phone in U.S.:
1-800-721-9986,
(302) 529-1876, 
Fax (302) 529-1085
tours@focusonnature.com
Birding tours 
& nature tours, 
since 1990. 

Focus On Nature Tours Inc.  has been offering
birding tours 
and nature tours 
for over a decade
to various places 
throughout the world: 
in North, Central, and South America, 
the Caribbean, Europe,
 Asia (notably Japan).

FEATURE PHOTO:
A Northern Royal Flycatcher, 
with an erect crest, 
as seen in the area of Tikal 
during our tour in Guatemala -  
where we're going again, during our Dec/Jan 04/05 Holiday Tour.  


This is one of over 500 pictures 
in our
PHOTO GALLERIES.

Birding Tours
(& other 
nature
TOURS) 
Worldwide

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


2004
(Oct-Dec)


2005

EAST  COAST USA
PELAGIC
TRIPS
(from 
New Jersey & Delaware)


2004 
& 2005
Seabirds &
other marine-life  
during PREVIOUS TRIPS

pre-2000

post-2000

LINKS TO 
FEATURED ITEMS OF INTEREST 


Selected Butterflies 
of Central America
(about 900 species)

 Link to Animals of Central America below.

A tiny island bursting with birds
in spring migration, 
Hegura, in the Sea of Japan 


Cranes

in Japan 

Shorebirds
in Japan

What is a 
Japanese Serow?


Scenery & Nature of Iceland

(The "Northern Lights", or Aurora Borealis
 as during our tour in October)

Alexander Skutch: A Naturalist 
in Costa Rica

North Carolina, USA: 
Birds & Other Wildlife
 

The Grouse of 
Colorado & Kansas

 

 

Rare Birds of the Caribbean Today
& those in that region gone extinct
(inc. macaws, parrots, parakeets) 

What is the "Green Flash"?

Albatrosses & other seabirds off Chile
(an updated & enlarged presentation)

 

Animals & Some Other Wildlife of:



North America


Central America 

South America








 

Yes, Seabirding can 
be "black & white".
A portfolio of photos
by Alan Brady 

All of the bird-lists in this web-site 
have been updated with the new 
2003 AOU taxonomy, including a 
"new" genus for owls & pigeons. 


A Hummingbird Photo Gallery

Color, Culture, & Birds of Guatemala


Annually there have been Focus On Nature Tours, for nearly 14 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 Canada, nature tours in Newfoundland. 
In Central & South America, there are FONT birding tours in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
A specialty of the FONT (Focus On Nature Tours) program are one-day pelagic trips for seabirds and marine mammals offshore from the Eastern USA (from New Jersey & Delaware), and other pelagic trips elsewhere in the world.

These pages last updated on 06 Oct 2004
(1:23pm)
  Web Pages by Risė Hill & Gene K. Hess .

FONT logo designed by Jim Lockyer.


Peregrine Falcons have been seen during more FONT tours around the world than any other bird.
On tours in: Alaska, Argentina, Arizona, Bolivia, Brazil, British Columbia, California, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Florida, France, Honduras, Hungary, Japan, North Carolina, Panama, Puerto Rico, Romania, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Venezuela, and Washington State.
But this bird was photographed close to home & the office in Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
(photo courtesy of Kim Steininger )